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1. I want a challenge
2. It's a beautiful language
3. My parents kind of wanted me to.

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Also, most people say that Chinese is difficult and I wanted to try it myself.

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1.I was told that it was one of the hardest languages to learn and I wanted to challenge myself by trying it.
2. It is a big language known in many places and maybe it will help me later in life.
3. I think it will be fun to draw the characters while writing.

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Kaitlyn Wilson : Why am I learning Mandarin Chinese?

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Kaitlyn Wilson : Why am I learning Mandarin Chinese?

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The first reason why I am learning Mandarin Chinese is because my Grandparents are from Taiwan. They do speak Taiwanese, but they also speak Mandarin. I want to be able to connect with them better because that' really important to me.
Secondly, I want to learn Mandarin Chinese because a lot of people speak Mandarin Chinese. It extremely important to be able to speak to different languages to connect to new people and learn more about their culture and lifestyle.
Last reason why I want to learn Mandarin Chinese is because I knew I would want to take it from the start. It seems a lot more interesting to me than the other languages.

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I want to learn mandarin because i will be the first in mt family to learn it

the characters look really cool

I can be used for business purposes

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The characters are different than what we use in English so it will be a challenge to learn. The characters are also beautiful and it is an art form that i would love to learn. It is also impressive to other people if you can speak mandarin, so i'd love to see reactions.

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1. Mandarin is the most spoken language around the world.
2. Since Mandarin is the most spoken language around the world it will help when i am looking for a job in the future.
3. The character sare beautiful and I want to learn what they each mean.

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1. Mandarin is a huge language around the world, and I would love to learn it
2. The characters are so diverse and beautiful
3. I wanted to challenge myself by learning a language so different from English

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1.) Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, and if someone Chinese ever approaches me, then I would understand them.

2.) I love how Mandarin Chinese has its own characters rather than use English letters to write down.

3.) My older sister said that Mandarin was super hard, but that's another reason to take it. I want to challenge myself and see how I'd learn this beautiful language.

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Reason one:
I think Mandarin characters are beautiful and I wanted to learn how to make them.

Reason two:
China is a HUGE part of this world's economy, and it will definitely come in useful to know the main language spoken there.

Reason three:
I honestly think it would be cool and interesting!

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I'd like to learn how to speak fluently in Mandarin, because my parents speak mandarin at home, and I barely know any words. I'd also like to learn Mandarin, because I want to eventually learn Japanese, and mandarin's similar to Japanese.

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1. My parents always speak in Chinese and so do my relatives. They did sign me up for Chinese school when i was  younger but  i quit. I want to learn to communicate with them more fluently.

2. I also want to learn Korean and Japanese later in life cause I plan on traveling and enjoying the culture of east Asia. (k-dramas, k-pop, and anime has a part in it too)

3. For college my mom said she would probably be going back to China, and be with her family.  I was thinking about going to college in china cause its closer to family.

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1. mandarin is a very common language and i have always wanted to go to china

2. it is a very beautiful language and the characters all very cool

3. i feel like most people were taking Spanish and they told me they were because it was the easiest but i wanted to give my self a challenge so that when i'm done I can speak a beautiful language that I love and can use all around the world even if it takes 10 years

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1. I believe the Mandarin language is important to learn because it allows you to communicate with more people.

2. Knowing the language, you are also able to do business in China.

3. Also, Mandarin is a tone-based  language, which once you grasp the concepts of, allows you to learn other tone-based languages such as Burmese and Vietnamese.

4. The Mandarin language also introduces you to different writing systems (non-European) and prepares you for other languages such as Russian, if you wanted to learn that.

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I'm 1/4 chinese and I would love to learn the language

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Because mandarin looks really cool to write.

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I was supposed to do spanish but I saw that I was in mandarin but I still want to do mandarin instead

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I was supposed to do spanish but I saw that I was in mandarin but I still want to do mandarin instead

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1.) Mandarin writing looks really cool and it would be cool to learn how to write and translate it.
2.) One of my goals is to learn 5 languages and when I learn Mandarin I will know 3.
3.) Mandarin is a really popular language so learning it is pretty important.

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1.Because I wanted to do it
2.my brother did it
3.my grandparents are from Taiwan
4. it seems fun

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1) I always wanted to know a different language
2)I like the characters for Mandarin
3)Mandarin is one

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1. If you learn mandarin learning other languages such as Arabic, Greek and Veitnamise become easy

2. there are 4 different tones so that can make the same word mean different things so you can say a lot of different in mandarin  even if you don't know that many words

3. this I more of a personal reason more or less but if I can speak mandarin I will be tri-lingual

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(1) I have some Chinese heritage, and  i would like to know the language!
(2) I think the language is beautiful and I really love how to write it.

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1. Mandarin is one of the most spoken languages around the world + it is a very good language for business
2. Mandarin is a very useful for if you ever go to China or Taiwan or other certain countries in Asia
3. Mandarin is a much more useful language then Spanish or French.

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1. Mandarin is used a lot throughout the world since there is a lot of people that come from China.
2. The characters of Mandarin are cool and it would be very cool if I was able to write like that.
3. Mandarin is harder then the other 2 languages, French and Spanish. So, it is more of a challenge for me.

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1. Mandarin is a beautiful language, not just for how it sounds and how the tones make it beautiful but the art of drawing one letter seems like something for me to try
2. Mandarin is growing in the US. There are many people in the world who speak Mandarin because it is the second most popular language under English. If anyone ever approached me speaking Mandarin or if I ever take a trip to China than I won't have difficulty understanding them.
3. I feel like Mandarin is going to be harder for me. I want a challenge and not a language that I will master by next year and Mandarin seemed to be the hardest language that I saw during the presentation.

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1. I like drawing and every letter is like a drawing on its own.
2. It is the most used language in the world
3. Mandarin is a lot more difficult than French and Spanish.

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1.) 3 of my 5 siblings are taking it
2.) I thought it would be a good challenge to learn a more difficult language
3.)I like the way that it is different from most languages, it isn't like English, Spanish, or Italian. It has it's own characters and sounds.

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1. The characters are really cool  and beautiful and it would be cool to write  like that.          2. I want to lean mandarin because it is harder than French or Spanish so it would be a challenge.                  3.Since China has the biggest population I can talk to a lot of people in the world.

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1. Mandarin is a good language to learn for business.
2.I want to visit Asia one day and hit a ton of places like China and Japan, but most importantly my mothers birth place Korea.

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1. Mandarin came out as the harder language between and i was seeking a challenge
2. Mandarin is a good business language because if I get a job where I need to travel over to the Asian Country's i can speak to people there

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1I chose Mandarin because I thought it would be way cooler to learn than french or spanish because there is a completely different alphabet and characters.
2I also chose mandarin because most things are made in China so when I am older and have a job I might have to travel to China and speak mandarin because that is the main language there.
3I want to travel to many places and Mandarin is 1 or 2 most spoken language in the world so it would be great to know how speak Mandarin.

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1) I want to challenge my brain with a interesting language!
2) I enjoy drawing and think it would be fun to write the language!
3) A family friend who is now in grad school took Mandarin and loved it so much, she convinced me in the first place!
- Ella Snyder ( Green hybrid, D block)

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also i could visit all of the cool places in china
and third it was the only option my mom does not speak

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1 I wanted to do mandarin because i thought it would be  cool to learn  

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1 I wanted to do mandarin because i thought it would be  cool to learn  

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2  another reason is because it is the most used language in the world
3 one of my friends speaks mandarin so i chose it to have conversations with him

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I like the symbols and the culture of the chinese people. It is also supposed to be hard and i like a challenge. It is also the most used language in the world, so it it very useful

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1. I like handwriting and would like to learn how to write those beautiful characters
2. I Would like to be able to talk to more people in the world.
3. I feel it's cool when people are surprised that I could speak Mandarin Chinese
Ian