Personal attack? How fitting on a post about languages that people can't seem to read.
Based on OP the number of English and Mandarin speakers is roughly the same, and considering written Chinese is mostly shared between languages that would mean that more people can currently read Chinese than English.…
With that mentality I doubt that you speak a foreign language. If that's the case, of course you think that everything "important" is translated for you already - it's not going to show up on Google if you don't search…
Sure, why don't we start this initiative by learning Mandarin? Or does it have to be YOUR language that everyone should be obligated to learn and communicate in?
That is not relevant to the post, which assumes that the reader is actually interested in learning a language. Many (I would say most) high school students are not, and don't invest more than the minimum amount of time…
Personal attack? How fitting on a post about languages that people can't seem to read.
Based on OP the number of English and Mandarin speakers is roughly the same, and considering written Chinese is mostly shared between languages that would mean that more people can currently read Chinese than English.…
With that mentality I doubt that you speak a foreign language. If that's the case, of course you think that everything "important" is translated for you already - it's not going to show up on Google if you don't search…
Sure, why don't we start this initiative by learning Mandarin? Or does it have to be YOUR language that everyone should be obligated to learn and communicate in?
That is not relevant to the post, which assumes that the reader is actually interested in learning a language. Many (I would say most) high school students are not, and don't invest more than the minimum amount of time…