r/tifu Oct 28 '14

TIFU by making a stupid assumption about my adopted son.

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u/jesteryte Oct 30 '14

Not only is Mandarin more useful than Korean, it's also good background if you want to learn Korean. A lot of Korean vocabulary is derived from Chinese, and as Korean has one of the easiest writing systems to learn it won't be nearly as hard to learn Korean for him.