(14 May 2014, 11:35 am)Dan wrote Maybe not Mandarin, but I would have preferred learning Spanish to French... Guess it's too late now!
One of my younger brothers (big age gap) is doing French at Uni.
He studied it at GCSE and All-level and got A*.
The other degree he is doing (started from scratch at uni like his peers) - Mandarin Chinese.
Obviously as well as learning the spoken language, he needs to learn the written language and with the course being structures the way it is, could do both after a few months.
He is off to China for a year in the summer.
Never too late to learn something new.