You want to come to China to study Chinese?

ymstudy   Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:51 am GMT
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Guest   Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:08 am GMT
No. I don't.
---   Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:28 am GMT
No.
Another Guest   Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:07 am GMT
No, me neither.
Yes   Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:08 pm GMT
China is going to be the only superpower in the near future
blanchette   Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:17 pm GMT
Who cares?! No, thanks...
Anhangá   Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:31 pm GMT
<< China is going to be the only superpower in the near future >>

I'll wait until then to learn Chinese. Even if China were to become "the only superpower in the near future", English has so much momentum and Chinese is so hard to westerners that I don't think Chinese will be really needed in the near future. It would take at least a generation or two, I think, to get Chinese anywhere near English.
Guest   Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:25 pm GMT
near future = 10/15 years . Do you agree?
lop   Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:14 pm GMT
Chinese could be come a superpower but that wouldn't automatically make ordinary people learn Chinese. China has to start producing some "good" media and entertainment for that to happen. This is essential. China now produces basically nothing (except kung-fu movies which are in Cantonese). It is less popular even than Japanese in this regard (anime), and light-years behind English.
Regardless of economics, if Chinese continues to produce nothing entertaining, and America continues to, then English will very popular and Chinese won't.
Yolanda   Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:59 am GMT
China will just adopt English as its second official language to make business easier.