Does learn chinese? Many times, reading about which language, besides English obviously, it would be useful to learn, I read: Chinese... why? Because it's the language of the future. Well, I'm agree, it's a pity that we don't live in the future, we live in the present, then, I think, it's not a concrete reason to try to study one of the most difficoult important languages. I think that passion would be already a better reason to do it, Chinese is very beautiful, I find that its system of writing is art, and a very useful exercise for the memory, as its pronunciation is for the listening skill. But if a person would ask me: Do you think it's useful to work for an Italian? - Well, it depends, of course if you want to work in China it's necessary, but to work in Europe, I don't understand why to spend years to learn one language, since in that much time you could have learnt three languages as much as useful like French, German and Spanish. Many Italian/Chinese people who are born here in Italy, so that know perfectly both languages, have a job that of course doesn't require Chinese language to be executed.