Originally Posted by
joebenz
and to add to that. simplified is just the way it's written. not the way it's spoken
but yes, i'd say it's a great language to learn. i wish i could speak mandarin. lots of job opportunities if you can speak the language
well it's sort of different.... because I can speak a little mandarin but only if it's spoke by Taiwanese, the mainland chinese pronounce the words very very differently. I guess you can call it at accent but man it's so far off I can't make out what the actual word that is pronounced.