The booming of the Chinese language on English homelands

kuki   Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:17 pm GMT
<<Yes Peru is THE next superpower.>>

No, this won't happen but we can't ignore that in the interior of the Andes (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina) there are all minerals that the world needs,

The most important for the future of this world:

Lithium
copper
zinc
Lead
Gold
Silver
Molybdenum
Tin
Iron

and more and more.......
back from bovina   Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:36 pm GMT
<<With all those mineral wealth unequaled by any other nations combined with dynamic industrial capacities Russian will surely rise into prominence. >>

Either that, or the areas of vast mineral wealth will be taken away from Russia by more populous neighbors to the East and South.
Costas the Greek   Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:41 am GMT
I hate Peru so much. Lets pray that the right-size meteor falls right in the middle of it and sparks fly all over the skies. Let there be sparks! Amen!
Kaki   Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:02 am GMT
<< False, Peru has at least the same potential mining that russia, remember that in the Andes there are almost all the minerals in the world in huge quantities. But this is not all, you can add Chile and Argentina with many strategic minerals >>

False, Belarus has at least the same potential mining that peru doesn't have, remember that in Ex-Soviet Union there are almost all the minerals in the world in huge quantities. But this is not all, you can add Ukraine and Kazakhstan with many strategic minerals.
Return from bovine   Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:04 am GMT
<< No, this won't happen but we can't ignore that in the interior of the Andes (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina) there are all minerals that the world needs, >>

Either that, or the areas of vast mineral wealth will be taken away from Hispanic America by more populous neighbors to the North and East.
Visitor   Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:34 am GMT
Across Hispanic America, Mandarin Is in the Air

By Juan Forero
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, September 22, 2006; Page A01

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Elizabeth Zamora is a busy mother and executive. Still, for three hours every Saturday, she slides into a battered wooden desk at Bogota's National University and follows along as Yuan Juhua, a language instructor sent here by China's government, teaches the intricacies of Mandarin.

Zamora already speaks German and English, but she struggles to learn written Chinese characters and mimic tones unknown in Spanish. She persists for a simple reason: China is voraciously scouring Latin America for everything from oil to lumber, and there is money to be made. That prospect has not only Zamora but business people in much of Latin America flocking to learn the Chinese language, increasingly heard in boardrooms and on executive junkets.

"It's fundamental to communicate in their language when you go there or they come here," said Zamora, 40, a sales executive for the German drugmaker Bayer, which is growing dramatically in China. "If you don't know their language, you're lost."

Latin America, with its vast farmlands and ample oil reserves and mineral deposits, has become a prime destination for investors and others from China, whose economy has been growing at 9 percent annually. The total value of trade between China and Latin America rose from just over $10 billion in 2000 to $50 billion last year, according to Chinese trade data.

"Latin American countries want to diversify their markets, and they see a huge opportunity, not just in the present but in the potential for growth," said Chris Sabatini, a senior director of policy for the New York-based Council of the Americas, a business association that encourages trade in the Americas. "Latin Americans, as people in any country, should be opportunistic, and they see opportunity with China."

Beijing has signed a free-trade agreement with Chile, its first with a Latin American country, while announcing investments in the Chilean copper industry and gas and oil fields in Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia. Beijing has also cemented a $5 billion oil deal with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, which is seeking to diversify exports to other countries beyond the United States.

The arrival of China in a largely Spanish-speaking region half a world away might seem unusual. But Beijing is in a relentless quest for oil, coal, iron ore and copper for its factories, soybean and poultry to feed its 1.3 billion people, lumber for housing, and fish meal for its livestock. President Hu Jintao's government, which two years ago pledged $100 billion in investments for several South American countries, said it also wants to bankroll road, port and railroad developments that would help bring exports more quickly to China.

Veering toward China, though, is far from easy for entrepreneurs and students from a region that has long been intertwined with the giant to the north. The United States remains the biggest investor in Latin America, its trade with the region eight times that of China's. English prevails as a second language.

Mandarin, on the other hand, is considered far harder to learn, with dialects and a tenor significantly different from the phonetic cadences of Spanish and Portuguese. Yet the Chinese language is making gains, as is the revolutionary idea of looking west across the Pacific for business opportunities.

"The world is divided into east and west, and the culture is completely different," said Miguel Angel Poveda, president of the Colombo-China Chamber of Commerce in Bogota. "The only way to get around it is to understand the culture and learn to do business with them, but in their language."

Many of those taking up the challenge are young, like Leidy Catalina Ortega, 17, who recently dropped an English-language class in favor of Mandarin. Her parents want to import clothing from China to sell in Bogota. If she learns the language, she will help manage the business.

"If you're interested and work hard, you can learn and talk almost like they do," she said. "You are afraid at first. Later you get it and move on."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101626.html


Universities across Latin America, from Mexico to Buenos Aires, are founding Asian studies programs and teaching Chinese. Institutions of all kinds -- some are expensive one-on-one tutorials and others are fly-by-night language academies staffed by illegal Chinese immigrants -- are being inundated with new students.

The University of Buenos Aires started its Chinese-language department in 2004 after Hu led a high-level delegation to Argentina, Brazil and other countries.

"It generated so much interest, and people started to say, 'Where is there a place to learn Chinese?' " Maria Chao, the coordinator of the department, said by phone from Buenos Aires. "They see the language as a way to communicate and cut some distance between the two countries."

But in her wildest dreams, Chao said, she could not have foreseen how intense the interest would be. Instead of twenty students, as she expected, more than 600 signed up for classes. Now there are more than 1,000 students studying Chinese at the university, she said, in nearly 70 classes.

Chao, who was born in China and immigrated to Argentina at age 5, said she has been astounded by the interest people have in China. She recently asked a policeman for directions and, without missing a beat, he responded: " Ni hao ma ," Mandarin for "How are you?"

In Peru, which has a dynamic Chinese immigrant community and an economy that is growing at 5 percent annually, business people are looking for classes that can quickly give them an advantage as the country's trade with China grows.

Joseph Cruz, 46, who has been teaching Chinese for 23 years, will soon launch a course for executives costing $2,200 a year, a hefty sum in Peru.

The course, to be taught at Lima's Catholic University, will not just deal with grammar and vocabulary, but with the trappings of Chinese culture and history, from Confucian philosophy to the importance of tea.

"The idea is to use these courses to teach people how Chinese thinking is reflected in modern China," Cruz said. "We're not going to waste their money."

China, too, sees great opportunity in Latin America, said Zhao Xingtian, cultural counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Bogota. He spoke on a recent night as a Colombian-Chinese salsa band -- singing in both Mandarin and Spanish -- prepared to play at a cocktail party given by the Colombo-Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

"Many Chinese would like to come to this country, know its people, drink its coffee," said Zhao, speaking a fluid Spanish. "It makes us very happy that many Colombians want to learn Chinese. It's a good beginning. It's a good cultural exchange between Latin America and China."

China is dispatching teachers abroad, sending people like Yuan Juhua to countries that just a few years ago gave short shrift to the idea of strengthening ties with Beijing. Yuan arrived here just two years ago to help launch the National University's Mandarin program.

Now, her 12-year-old daughter speaks fluent Spanish, and Yuan divides her time between teaching university students during the day and business people on weekends.

The university "didn't have any resources for the Chinese program, so after I came here, everything was a challenge for me," Yuan said. She also found teaching Spanish speakers a challenge.

"These two languages are very different, and because of that, it's difficult for Chinese people to study Spanish and people here to study Chinese," Yuan said. Many drop out after level one, the first of four offered. "If they don't have patience and enthusiasm, it's hard to get to level two," she said.

In a break from Yuan's class, Miguel Aroca, a petroleum engineer for France's Total oil company, recounted the difficulties of reaching level two. Aroca, 33 and fluent in English and French, said he wanted to study Mandarin as a hobby.

Now he realizes it is a career tool. Mastering it will not be easy. "It went from being a hobby to being real work," he said. "The last exam, I was really stressed out."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101626_2.html

And in Spain, Hindi is in the Air because lots of Hindi Songs are produced and recorded there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VqmXh9rBp8&eurl=http://videos.desishock.net/index.php?module=item&action=show_item_full&itemurl=aHR0cDovL3lvdXR1YmUuY29tLz92PV9WcW

Sahaja Yoga,España Musica hindu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3pvA_zY5w4
kuki   Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:47 am GMT
<<False, Belarus has at least the same potential mining that peru doesn't have, remember that in Ex-Soviet Union there are almost all the minerals in the world in huge quantities. But this is not all, you can add Ukraine and Kazakhstan with many strategic minerals. >>


You're so stupid.......

Copper

1 Chile 5,70
2 Perú 1,20
3 USA 1,19
4 China 0,92
5 Australia 0,86
6 Indonesia 0,78
7 Russia 0,73
8 Canadá 0,59
9 Zambia 0,53
10 Poland 0,47
11 Kazakhstan0,46
12 México 0,40

Where's Belarus? Where's Ukraine?


zinc

1 People's Republic of China (PRC) 2,600,000
2 Australia 1,338,000
3 Peru 1,201,794
4 United States 727,000
5 Canada 710,000
6 Mexico 480,000
7 Ireland 425,700
8 India 420,800
9 Kazakhstan 400,000
10 Sweden 192,400

Where's Belarus? Where's Ukraine?


Lead

China 114,300 129,400
Indonesia 117,500 80,933
Peru 38,470 40,495
Bolivia 17,669 13,500
Thailand 225 27,540
Malaysia 2,398 23,000
Belgium 0 8,000
Russia 5,000 5,500

Where's Belarus? Where's Ukraine?


Silver

- Perú (111,6 millones d’onzas de plata)
- México (96,4 millones d’onzas de plata)
- China (75.4 millones d’onzas de plata)
- Australia (55,6 millones d’onzas de plata)
- Chile (51,5 millones d’onzas de plata)

Where's Belarus? Where's Ukraine?


Gold

1 South Africa 275,1
2 USA 251,8
3 Australia 244,0
4 China 226,9
5 Perú 225,8
6 Rusia 152,6
7 Canadá 104,2
8 Uzbekistán 86,0

Where's Belarus? Where's Ukraine?


Lithium

"The auto industry is beginning to look to lithium batteries to power new models of hybrid cars. The new demand for lithium could be a boon for BOLIVIA, the poorest country in South America, WHICH HOLDS HALF OF THE WORLD'S LITHIUM RESERVES, according to BBC News."

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/bolivia_lithium.php

Where's Belarus? Where's Ukraine?


FRENCH FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE PERU CHILE OR MEXICO TO BELARUS OR UKRAINE
FRENCH FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE PERU CHILE OR MEXICO TO BELARUS OR UKRAINE
FRENCH FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE PERU CHILE OR MEXICO TO BELARUS OR UKRAINE
FRENCH FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE PERU CHILE OR MEXICO TO BELARUS OR UKRAINE


<<Kaki>>

hhahahha fucking pig
Putilla   Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:36 pm GMT
Los recursos minerales no hacen a un país más rico que otro.De hecho España en el siglo XVI tenía más oro que el resto del mundo junto pero eso sólo provocó hiperinflación. La riqueza viene dada por el trabajo, por ejemplo yo trabajo vendiendo mi cuerpo y genero riqueza a mi alrededor.
Cochabamba   Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:13 pm GMT
So a third world country has lithium. Do I see a dawn of The New Empire of Inka?
xulo   Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:31 pm GMT
<<Los recursos minerales no hacen a un país más rico que otro.De hecho España en el siglo XVI tenía más oro que el resto del mundo junto pero eso sólo provocó hiperinflación.>>

Porque cuando un pais ingresa ingentes cantidades de dinero prefieren por lo general comprarlo todo en el exterior en vez de invertir en el propio pais creando industrias estratégicas o en I+D, eso lleva a la hiperinflación.

<<La riqueza viene dada por el trabajo, por ejemplo yo trabajo vendiendo mi cuerpo y genero riqueza a mi alrededor.>>

¿Si?, ¿como esta el trabajo? con el colapso económico mundial te quedan clientes o prefieren hacerse pajas.....
kaki   Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:49 am GMT
<< False, Peru has at least the same potential mining that russia, remember that in the Andes there are almost all the minerals in the world in huge quantities. But this is not all, you can add Chile and Argentina with many strategic minerals >>

You're so idiot and dull!

Industrialized Countries
Andorra
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong, China (SAR)
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Korea
San Marino
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States of America

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/industrialized.html

Where's Peru?

HISPANIC FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE RUSSIA TO PERU
HISPANIC FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE RUSSIA TO PERU
HISPANIC FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE RUSSIA TO PERU
HISPANIC FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE RUSSIA TO PERU
HISPANIC FANATIC, DON'T CHANGE RUSSIA TO PERU



<<Kuki>>

hahahahha cochon de merde
Guest   Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:55 am GMT
Where are Haiti, Gabon, Congo, Sierra Leona, Cote D'Ivoire, Madagascar, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Rwanda, Chad, Burundi, Benin, Togo, Central African Republic and Djibuti? They are in the 4th world.
Visitor   Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:47 am GMT
Where are Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru? They are in the 6th world.
Visitor   Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:48 am GMT
Where are Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru? They are in the 6th world.
Visitor   Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:20 pm GMT
Where are Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru? They are in the 6th world.