Among the various speculations that have been spreading around in news websites and newspapers is that India and China are going to be the world's next economic behemoths in the coming centuries. This has prompted much of the world to take note of the fact that business in the future could be conducted in the dominant languages spoken in these countries rather than the Western languages and the most common languages used until now such as English. Therefore, many people now consider it important to learn Simplified Chinese since China recently became the world's second biggest economy after recently overtaking Japan in the number two spot.
But what many people do not know is that these simplified Chinese characters are not used everywhere in the world as of now. Since the government of the People's republic of China introduced the system sometime during the 80's, it was used very much only in mainland China. Many of the other Asian countries which use Chinese as one of their official languages still continue to use the traditional characters that they were using until then.
Many countries like Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong and Singapore still have Chinese as one of their official languages. But while many of them are considering a switch to simplified characters, some of them have not made up their mind yet. This also applies to many universities in various western countries which have been teaching Mandarin for decades now and are debating just like the countries are. However, breaking news was made when one of the universities in Canada, the University of British Columbia which has been one of the main universities teaching Mandarin decided to start teaching its students to learn simplified Chinese characters too. This shows how fast the simplified characters system is catching up which is more reason for you to learn simplified Chinese.
For more information on this, head over to this article on how to learn simplified Chinese. Also visit my blog on learning Chinese Online.
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