Why do we learn Chinese? That is an important topic for most Chinese language learners. The study of the Chinese language opens the way to different important fields such as Chinese politics, economy, history or archaeology. But to study Chinese finally means to study a culture, a people. At the heart of Chinese civilization is its rich heritage of novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and, more recently, film. They reflect the values, the struggles, the sensibility, the joys and the sorrows of this great people and often offer insights even into the most intimate feelings of people in the past or into high-level Beijing politics at present that cannot be found anywhere else.

Learning the following points, you may finally know the reasons why you learn Chinese.

1. China is one of the world’s oldest and richest continuous cultures, over 5000 years old. Leaning Chinese will help us know the Chinese culture.
2. China is the most populous nation in the world, with 1.28 billion people.
3. One fifth of the planet speaks Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is the mother tongue of over 873 million people, making it the most widely spoken first language in the world.
4. In addition to the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, Mandarin Chinese is also spoken in the important and influential Chinese communities of Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, and Mongolia. Thus, learning Chinese is worldwide and significant.
5. China is the second largest economy in the world.

From above, I think you will realize why we learn Chinese language. And do you want to achieve more in you Chinese level? Come and join us. Welcome to visit http://www.echineselearning.com/