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Boojatta

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4. How would it be useful to have studied Mandarin for a year?

Reply to Blaze Diem (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 11, 2012, 10:34 AM

Apr 2012

Just retaining what you had already learned would be a goal that might not be easily achieved. After all, how much reading and writing would you be able to do after studying it for only a year? What options for independent study would you have at the end of the one year of study?

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If you didn't have US citizenship or an education ... [View all] Boojatta Apr 2012 OP

Why limit it to English or Spanish? Actually Mandarin is second to English in the USA so Blaze Diem Apr 2012 #1

How would it be useful to have studied Mandarin for a year? Boojatta Apr 2012 #4

Depends where you're coming from..& what part of the USA you are heading to Blaze Diem Apr 2012 #11

Where on earth did you get that? RZM Apr 2012 #13

I think I heard it from Allen West Blaze Diem Apr 2012 #16

Where are we living? MADem Apr 2012 #2

Correct. Its geographical. Blaze Diem Apr 2012 #7

Is this a board game or an SAT question? leveymg Apr 2012 #3

It's a Boojatta question. hobbit709 Apr 2012 #8

Better to have studied English kctim Apr 2012 #5

Would you really understand why? Boojatta Apr 2012 #6

ding ding ding.. Blaze Diem Apr 2012 #10

Probably be better spending that time on a dating site.. snooper2 Apr 2012 #9

Speaking as one who had to learn English the 'sink or swim' way... WilmywoodNCparalegal Apr 2012 #12

Great story & Congrats to your success. Blaze Diem Apr 2012 #15

Thank you for your contribution to this thread. Boojatta Apr 2012 #17

English treestar Apr 2012 #14

English is obviously the better choice ... guardian Apr 2012 #18