Do you think that the Chinese language will become a powerful language in the future?
Do you think the Chinese language will be a neccesity in the future?
After watching the breathtaking opening of the Bejing Olympics, One could not help but notice that China showed the world that they have arrived on the world stage, with a party not even Hollywood A-list stars could rival. This brings me to my question China showed the world just what the are capable of, they have business affairs in more than 40 countries in Africa, have been opening up business deals in South America, and in many schools China is being implemented as a must learn language. Do you think the Chinese language will become an important language in the world future?
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October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
I believe it will continue gaining influences around the world. It is a very beautiful language, with rich history and culture. Yet, it is hard to learn, I think more and more people will learn to speak Chinese, but not writing in Chinese. Not to mention the difficulty, it is not that necessary actually. Though Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, this is mainly because there are 1.3 billion people in China alone (not to mention those overseas) and you can’t really beat that.
For a language that has the potential to be a lingua franca, it has got to be easy to learn. Chinese is probably one of the hardest to learn, it has far more words than English. Unlike many European languages, it is not comprised of alphabets. Also, a single Chinese word could have many different meanings, it could be confusing to people who do not know Chinese. I suppose only people who try really really hard can learn Chinese well, it is simply not as easy to handle as English, German or French.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
Given its huge population and developing economy, many of us may need Chinese language…but it will be hard to learn Chinese letter so most learners will learn just speaking skill…
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
Maybe because of the Beijing Olympics….x
Personally I think its a gorge language….x
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
Nowadays many people around the world is showing interest in mandarin, but the Chinese government recognizes that it is really difficult for western people. English will reign for the centuries ahead.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
It already is a powerful, important language. Over a quarter of the world’s population speaks Chinese. I’ve been studying it off and on for about five years, three of those in college, and it isn’t nearly as hard as people seem to think it is. The writing system makes perfect sense once you learn how it’s organized, so that shouldn’t scare anyone off either. You don’t have all the verb conjugation you have in most other languages either, which makes it even easier.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
Language? Perhaps.
Writing? No.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
mandarin chinese is becoming an important language of international trade, as chinas influence grows. this is not unusual historicaly speaking. greek was a dominant language of trade across the mediterannean in biblical times. latin, spanish, french, portuguese, japanese,hindustani, and arabic, have had their influences in the world as trade and influences spread.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
It is now . So maybe , yes .
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
it is important but I would just stick with english and learn some business related chinese or for your necessity.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
I think so. I know MANY people of various races that are learning or have learnt it.
The sheer size of China is just frightening. Vodafone (UK) was supposed to be the largest telecommunications company in the World by number of customers (260 million Worldwide) then China rose and made China Mobile which is now by far the largest in the World with over 500 million subscribers. Companies that have strong business in a lot of countries Worldwide can’t even compete with companies used by the Chinese population.
Another example is how English is supposed to be the most widely spoken language in the World with 341 million speakers (according to Encarta) but it’s behind Mandarin/Chinese which has minimum 873 million speakers to a maximum Worldwide of over 1.21 billion speakers now.
Overall, I’d say yes it will be an even more (it already is) powerful language in the future.
Hope this helps.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
they should teach it in school if they need to replace french with chinese. kids in american schools need to learn languages that will benefit them latin and french wont as much as spanish chinese or hindi
October 10th, 2009 at 2:22 am
i acutually think that it should be the one of the only languages being spoken (no offense to the others), my mom is a strong believer in China, she will side with China no matter what happens, of course that only happened because of the things that america has done to her.