As an American who grew up at a religious school in the 90s, we absolutely did not (or at least I never had access to one). Obviously places like Kora or Tibet have been effected in their history (I still want to read your answers 😁), but what about, for example, New Zealand? Or Sierra Leonne? Or Portugal? I’m just curious to see how pervasive the new Global Language already is by this point.
BonusQuestion: Is it mostly following their Belt-and-Road Initiative? Wouldn’t that be something?
Chinese is not a global language. And it’s not likely to be in the future. It’s not the raw number of speakers what makes a global language but the number of non-native speakers.
That being said.
In my country, Spain, it is not taught at any level as mandatory, and not even as an option. Of you want to study chinese you have to go to do as an extracurricular thing.
Yeah, my main lesson I’ve learned here is to type the draft while high, but only press Send after I’ve come down 😅 I don’t think it is now or will be in our lifetimes, BUT I do think that if a universal human language were possible, it would be more beneficial to base it on a Tonal system than an Atonal one (sorry Esperanto). But that is just my opinion, feel free to disagree, and thank you for your input 😁
But why would a tonal system be beneficial?
Beneficial… beneficial… am I answering to an AI?
Idk that’s just, like, my opinion, man… But I think it opens up lots of possibilities for humanity long-term. But yeah no, I’m not AI, just awkward and forward