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Originally Posted by Thom Yorke
That's why I put Mandarin in quotation marks. Taking into account population projections it looks like a massive part of the world's population will be speaking Mandarin (as in even much more than today). Who knows what the benefits to being able to speak Mandarin then will be? IF it becomes like what english is today to the rest of the world, I'll probably try to learn it.
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I see.
That there are more Chinese speakers than speakers of other languages is a myth. There are more native speakers of Chinese than any other mother-tongue, but English is far more widely spoken. Actually, there are many words in Chinese borrowed from English.
Why does it look like a massive part of the world's population will be speaking Putonghua?