God, Chinese is so much more useful. Italian is virtually useless, in fact. 59 million people live there, 1.4 billion live in China alone, not to mention the the emigrants.

I love my Italian homies, but yeah.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I actually want to visit Italy one day. I've never had the desire to go to China, and a lot of stories I've heard from people who did visit for tourism or business were not making me want to go.

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I've been and thought it was splendid.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't China have more than one spoken language, though? If I get all of them, Chinese. Otherwise Italian because then I'd have Spanish as well, I know toddler Spanish already and the grammar is the same.

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I was being intentionally broad but yeah. Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, whatever the Weigers speak, and a bunch of regional dialects/languages. That's my understanding at least, without googling it.

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

From what I was taught, most people in china primarily speak mandarin or can speak mandarin as well as another dialect. Mandarin is the one you want.