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Travel Shanghai China, An amazing city.
Posted by: | CommentsI live, work, play in Shanghai, China’s largest city, largest port; a city of 16 million people, (many millions more during holidays and festivals), a city wanting to be the biggest, best and most important in the world.
If you had been able to Travel Shanghai 10 years ago, and returned today, you would see a very, very different city.
Shanghai today is a modern, 21st Century city, with tall, new shiny buildings, amazing nightlights, a wonderland.
Finding the old sights and sounds of the old city is becoming more difficult as the city’s rapid development produces almost instant change, almost everywhere.
Shanghai is a Chinese city of surprises: – a bizarre, and sometimes brutal, colonial history (British, French, American, Italian, Japanese) and dark days exploited as an Opium trade hub. Mix that with ancient Chinese culture and today we have a city urgently trying to leave its colourful past behind and which will soon be compared, in class and elegance, with any major city in the world.
Why Learn Chinese
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There are numerous reasons for a person to want to start learning Chinese. The two main reasons include, first, Chinese is spoken by more people in the world than any other language. And second, the Chinese economy is the world’s fastest growing. These two reasons make learning Chinese the most useful and practical thing for anybody to do.
There are several other reasons for a person to want to start learning Chinese, besides being beneficial to a person’s future prospects. Learning Chinese opens up an entirely new world to the learner. The Chinese language and culture is quite different from the Western cultures. This is something that not many people get to experience, but learning Chinese will start to open up your world view. You don’t have to go to China in order to gain an understanding of their culture, just by studying the language you can gain great insights into the way that the Chinese mind works.
