PREAMBLE
Hello lovely hivers,
It's been a superb week and most importantly the last edition of the week 24. At times I wonder how people are inspired to put forth life challenging topic like this. I hope one day to be enlisted among the contributors of topics. Credit to those managing this community and the contest. I also want to hail all the consistent participants for sending all manner of inspiring write up. May the Lord Almighty bless us all.
DEFINITION OF SOME TERMS
Before I advance with this contest, I felt led to define some basic terms that are fundamental for us to comprehend my input. These words includes; Bilingual, Learn and Language.
- What does Bilingual means? It simply means someone who has competence in speaking two languages or a person who has fluency in two languages.
- Learn simply means to acquire or get something either from unknown to known or simple to complex or an addition to knowledge.
- Language can simply be put as communication which is accepted by a community or country.
WHAT LANGUAGE WOULD I LEARN?
If I am given this option, the language that I would learn is Chinese.
WHY DID I CHOOSE THIS LANGUAGE & WHAT IT MEANS TO ME?
Every have different reasons for different purposes and of course we the face the impact of every of our decision.
Chinese language is gradually becoming as the most acceptable global language after English. I discovered that presently Chinese has lots of influences over other nations and the rate at which they colonized such nations.
I would like to site an instance with my country Nigeria precisely. The most sought after and goods, services that floods the market are products from the Chinese. If you buy from other nations, it may even expired yet no client had come for pricing.
Some of these products and services includes motor cycle, drugs, clothes, machines, kitchen utensils, mosquitoes nets, engines etc. Every of their products suits an average or poor Nigerian. It moves faster than any other goods in the market. It has boosted the merchandise activities within my nation.
Now because of the massive boost in the production of goods and services in Chinese nations, it has made them overshadowed others in the market. With all these developments, it's expedient that one studies and learn this language in order to converse and run businesses with them.
I feel learning Chinese language will afford me lots of benefits and enhance mutual understanding which will also reduce the rate of cheating and other dishonest act.
Chinese language will help me work in the embassy as I translate their language to English.
It's known that most projects and construction of roads in Nigeria today are carried out directly or indirectly by the Chinese. Therefore learning this language will help one to effectively work with them and serve them better.
With the recent technological advancement in the Chinese nations where sophisticated things are being produced, for me they are gradually tilting towards becoming a very strong nation (world power) because of this, it will be important to start learning this language in order to enjoy the equipment more. Have you noticed that most heavy duty machine are made by Chinese such that the instructional manual is written in Chinese.
I want to share the recent thing that happened just some few months ago. My mum was diagnosed of cataract in her eyes. Guess what? The doctors were Chinese, the drugs given were produced by them hence I was challenged to start learning Chinese because of the prescription given hmmm I never knew that I would even write some few lines about them this weekend. It took me some moment to actually assimilate and connect to it.
If you permit me, I would say from nursery to tertiary institution just to learn Chinese because of the trend of things. This language has come to stay with the recent global challenges
CONCLUSION
As I conclude, bilingual is very important because it will help someone to speak two languages. It will promote both inter and intra personal relationship between nations.