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| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5120 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 201 of 249 16 November 2010 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I hope so! I like Mandarin much better than English.
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| Hanekawa Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5170 days ago 30 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 202 of 249 16 November 2010 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know guys, Chinese has an advantage over English.
You get to draw little pictures instead of boring letters. :B 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7142 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 203 of 249 16 November 2010 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not too relevant to Chinese, perhaps, but nonetheless an interesting sidelight on the hold that English has over non-elites in at least one former British colony:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LK17Df02.html 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jeeb Groupie Joined 5158 days ago 49 posts - 80 votes | Message 204 of 249 17 November 2010 at 3:19am | IP Logged | ||
The advantage has gone. Even for a Chinese person, one has to learn Mandarin through English alphabets. (pinyin) Nowadays Mandarin education is so emphasize on pinyin and pinyin input that causes many people forget how to write Chinese character. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| rolf Senior Member United Kingdom improvingmydutch.blo Joined 6005 days ago 107 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch | Message 205 of 249 04 April 2011 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
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China rockets to second place in science publications
China has rocketed into second place in the number of articles published in international science magazines, according to a report by the Royal Society in London. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8412816 /China-rockets-to-second-place-in-science-publications.html Get learning it if you haven't already started! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5079 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 206 of 249 06 April 2011 at 3:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I have already known more than 40 people who learnt English from zero to fluency, but I've never known anyone who studied Chinese and have become fluent in it. It's not that English is an easy language, but Chinese.. Well, Chinese is extremely hard. English is more practical, you use an alphabet used in a lot of languages, with a few letters. In Chinese, you need to improve your memory, it's the biggest trouble, followed by the hard tones. My lazy friends can communicate in broken English, saying things like "I go restaurant", "no money", "where bathroom is". But in Chinese, it would never be possible, just mistake the tone and say something absolutely different. I know English and Chinese vocabulary are alien to each other, but I think it's easier to a Chinese speaker learn fluent English than the opposite. In my opinion, Mandarin isn't going to be the lingua franca, but, if it becomes, it will fail. It's just too hard for a language that everyone should speak as a second language. The only chance is Mandarin adopting "officially" a romanized alphabet.
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| Janna Newbie China Joined 4979 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Studies: Cantonese | Message 207 of 249 06 April 2011 at 10:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm Chinese,I hope Chinese will be lingua franca some day!And now I'm learning English on my own,hoping English speakers who are also interested in Chinese can give me some help,then we can learn from each other.
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| Janna Newbie China Joined 4979 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Studies: Cantonese | Message 208 of 249 06 April 2011 at 10:34am | IP Logged | ||
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And finally, Chinese character is the essence of Chinese culture. Why give it up for foreigners? I agree with that 1 person has voted this message useful |
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