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Honestly, whatever firm I end up working at might be the tie-breaker when it comes to picking a language to learn.

If I end up working somewhere that does a bunch of appellate stuff and occasional SCC advocacy? Even more reason for me to learn French. A lot of the other firms I'm looking at? There'd be upsides to learning at least one of Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjabi, Hindi, and Farsi, depending on the firm.


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in reply to @kda's post:

As only really Hong Kong and Guangzhou speak it (as well as basically any older Chinatown population, which tended to mostly be from Guangzhou), there's just not as much resources compared to Mandarin. There's also not a ton of agreement on romanization systems but Jyutping is kinda the official one?

The hardest part for me to wrap my head around was nine tones in that language lol

Mhm, yeah. At least in Metro Vancouver, it's in an extremely close second as the most spoken Chinese language, so I figure it should be… …maybe less hard to get practice with it?

And that's definitely quite a few tones! Seeing as I've got zero experience with tonal languages, that'd probably be way more of a jump for me than four, but. ,,, I'd be interested to see if my fairly strong ear for tuning would help with that at all.

I was a choir kid and I can safely say it was of no great help. But to be fair, most people who speak Cantonese can also understand Mandarin, though their spoken may be lacking. I've certainly found it useful to know Mandarin while goofing around downtown Victoria, but I haven't used it any in Vancouver

Right, right!

I'm largely looking at language-learning through a "What language might be useful for communicating better with clients?" lens, though I figure I might look more into languages that'd just be cool to learn if I can successfully get close to fluent in one second language.