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Money of course is not my major motivator for trying to become proficient in Mandarin, my desire stems from an interest in the culture, and quite simply the difficulty in learning the language (I like a challenge!).

That all said, I’ve had executives from both Phillip Morris and GE who I know through friends/family tell me that their companies are always looking for people who can speak the language fluently. Maybe they didn’t know what they were talking about, or the two companies are just oddities, but I still suspect that being a westerner fluent in the language of a country where your company is increasingly doing business can’t help but have SOME financial benefit for you, even if just because you’re more likely to be sent to do work in that country, and employees who travel frequently to oversee, uh, oversea operations get paid a bit more.

]]> by: Susan http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/29/mandarin-learning-fad/#comment-68183 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:45:32 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/11/29/mandarin-learning-fad/#comment-68183 Hello, Hope you don't mind I post here. A nice song by Richie Ren that I would like to present to you on ECpod (can learn some mandarin from this song too): <a HREF="http://www.ecpod.com/index.php?datastream=request:showvideo&#124;videoid:1998&#124;language:en_GB&#124;theme:default" rel="nofollow">Richie Ren’s Song Animation Video</A> <a HREF="http://www.ecpod.com/" rel="nofollow">www.ECpod.com</A> is a free website to learn English and Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese and etc) using videos. These videos are produced by our members and you are welcome to contribute as well. You can make friends too within our community and find online students to teach. Sorry if you find the site slow now - it will be resolved in 2 weeks time after we sort out our overseas bandwidth issues. Thanks. Rgds, Susan Hello,

Hope you don’t mind I post here. A nice song by Richie Ren that I would like to present to you on ECpod (can learn some mandarin from this song too): Richie Ren’s Song Animation Video

www.ECpod.com is a free website to learn English and Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese and etc) using videos. These videos are produced by our members and you are welcome to contribute as well. You can make friends too within our community and find online students to teach.

Sorry if you find the site slow now - it will be resolved in 2 weeks time after we sort out our overseas bandwidth issues. Thanks.

Rgds, Susan

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