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Will Chinese become the world language?
Summary: With the continuing rise of China as a global economic and trading power, there is no barrier to prevent Chinese from becoming a global language like English, according to new research. People learn as much English as is required for their purposes, and the same would apply if Chinese was a global language.”
What will be the next world language?
The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050. A study by investment bank Natixis even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin.
What is the next world language?
Is English becoming the universal language in China?
“So far, English has kind of been the universal language, but more and more, with Chinese businesses and just the amount of industry that they have there it seems that that would be, you know, logical thing that could be happening or it seems like it would make you a valuable employee if you also spoke Chinese.”
Will Mandarin overtake English as the official language of China?
As China’s economic power grows, Mr Lee believes that Mandarin will overtake English. In fact, he has already been seeing hints of this. “The decline of the English language probably follows the decline of the US dollar. “If the renminbi is becoming the next reserve currency then you have to learn Chinese.”
Will Chinese become a preferred language of exchange around the world?
Yet the difficulty of writing Chinese characters, and the tonal nature of the language, make it unlikely the Chinese will become a preferred language of exchange around the world. To some, the widespread use of English is seen as advancing the political agenda of the English-speaking world.
Is English a more neutral language than Chinese?
And most of the dominant English-language countries internally also have a tradition of freedom of speech.” Martinez says that English is seen as a more neutral language than Chinese. Unlike Chinese, it is not associated with one country. He says even the ideas of equality are built into English grammar.