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For the sake of business and long term success, would it be better to learn Japanese or Cantonese?

On one hand, weebs and declining population make japanese unappealing.

On the other hand, mainland communists and limited mobility make Cantonese unappealing.

>> No.1670329
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>> No.1670344

>>1670329
>posts the mandarin copypasta
>doesn't understand that mandarin is not cantonese

>> No.1670373

>>1670306
>japanese or cantonese
>two minor languages
>not mandarin
Mandarin speaker here.
goy, the people that only speak cantonese are not worth talking to. Any cantonese speaking person worth talking to at least understands either mandarin or english. Learning cantonese if you're not specifically wanting to move to Hong Kong is like learning only Swiss German to go to Germany.
Don't worry about the Mandarin copypasta, it's a 老外 that expects to be able to do business in China the same as he can here.
If you learn and speak Mandarin, learning to understand Cantonese is not hard at all, and if you're going to Hong Kong, you'll speak it in no time.
Also, Taiwan also speaks Mandarin breh.


Then again, why do you want to learn any east-asian language? You need to have a reason. As for me, it was to prepare for the future, because chinks WILL have the next 'Silicon Valley'.

>> No.1670384

>learn Cantonese
>get to live and work in a country with toxic air, unregulated food sanitation, human meat-grinder escalators, and a housing bubble larger than Vancouver's and San Fran's put together

>learn Japanese
>get to live in a country that only let in 15 refugees last year, where all the Chinese women go to buy makeup and clothes that aren't complete shit

>> No.1670395

>>1670384
More like
>Learn Japanese
>Gaijin go home
>Still live in the US but deal with Japanese contractors over the phone.

>> No.1670511

>>1670373
>wanting to talk to communists

>> No.1670595

what's the top 3 business languages outside of english ?
Not in terms of locutors but by taking in terms of utility and growth potential

>> No.1670803

>>1670344
chinkspeak is chinkspeak lad

>> No.1671022

>>1670595
Mandarin, and the others depend on the market.