how to say 'instead' in Chinese
Hi!

In this sentence 'since there were no Cantonese classes, I decided to learn Mandarin INSTEAD'
How would you translate this in Chinese?

Thanks :)

Question

how to say 'instead' in Chinese
Hi!

In this sentence 'since there were no Cantonese classes, I decided to learn Mandarin INSTEAD' 
How would you translate this in Chinese?

Thanks :)

Answer

既然没有广东话课，我（便/转而/就/instead）选择学普通话了

Answer

既然没有粤语课程，我决定改为学普通话。I agree with all the other comments , besides those answers , 改为 also can be used here:)

Answer

First of all, Chinese do not use such a construct as like English.

'since there were no Cantonese classes, 既然沒有广东话课, I decided to learn Mandarin INSTEAD 我{就} 学普通话了.  Here 就 means "thus".  Sometimes a direct translation from the source language makes no sense in the target language.

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我正在学中文，而不是中文粤语.

Answer

既然没有粤语课，我决定学习普通话课来代替（粤语）

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