Chinese will be a powerful weapon

Your Mandarin puts heaps of mainlanders and Taiwanese into shame. When did you start learning Mandarin?

I can speak a little Chinese ,and fly to China twice every year for business.What I want to say is that chinese maybe helpful when you deal with chinese or something related to China anyway,that is to say,maybe it's a powerful weapon,but there're still a lot of weapon which make you successful.

"To Steve K"

I studied for about 9 months in 1968 in Hong Kong. Since then I have continued doing a lot of listening and reading. I have never lived in China but have visited about ten times. On the other hand I have listened to hours and hours of interesting content in Chinese. Recently I have had more opportunity to use it compared to the first 30 years after I learned it.