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| joan.carles Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6334 days ago 332 posts - 342 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, French, EnglishC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Hungarian, Russian, Georgian | Message 9 of 52 01 October 2008 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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What time range are we talking about?
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 10 of 52 01 October 2008 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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A song for the linguists of the future:
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| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6960 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 11 of 52 01 October 2008 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
As far as i'm aware the Chinese have been playing a massive role in the African economy. Their working with the Sudanese government was one of the issues that came out during the Olympics this year (in relation to the human rights violations in that area). So for this reason I imagine Chinese will become more and more important in Africa. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| autodidactic Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States tinyurl.com/cunningl Joined 6624 days ago 100 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Japanese, Kazakh | Message 12 of 52 01 October 2008 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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| autodidactic Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States tinyurl.com/cunningl Joined 6624 days ago 100 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Japanese, Kazakh | Message 13 of 52 01 October 2008 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | ||
China is stronger than ever in africa, 2nd only to the US. They don't mind working with (sanctioned) dictators (like mugabe) as long as they get paid. Business is business. http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/node/1126 ["]Eighty-five percent of Africa's exports to China come from five oil-rich countries (Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, and Sudan), according to the World Bank. But Chinese interest in Africa extends beyond oil. China now ranks as the continent's second-highest trading partner, behind the United States, and ahead of France and Britain. From 2002 to 2003, trade between China and Africa doubled to $18.5 billion; by 2007, it had reached $73 billion. Much of the growth was due to increased Chinese imports of oil from Sudan and other African nations, but Chinese firms also import a significant amount of non-oil commodities such as timber, copper, and diamonds. China recently began to import some African-manufactured value-added goods, such as processed foods and household consumer goods.["] http://www.cfr.org/publication/9557/ ["]With over 750,000 Chinese settling in Africa over the past ten years, and suggestions that anywhere up to 300 million will need to be sent in the future (to offset over-population and pollution), Malone says that Galton’s vision of a colonized Africa is now coming to pass.[/"] http://intercontinentalcry.org/chinas-colonizing-africa-whil e-we-talk-charity/ Out go the europeans, who built vast roads and infrastructure and schools in their colonial rule, and in come the Chinese, displacing africans and taking regimes' money. Poor africa. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5900 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 14 of 52 01 October 2008 at 2:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, for me the influence of a language is strongly tied to its cultural achievements. That's why ancient Greek and German will always be essential languages. On the other hand, languages of commerce and business fade away with the fortunes of politics and demography.
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