Language adoption figures indicate that essentially nobody is learning Mandarin outside of China. It's such a small percentage as to be rounding error versus th

Language adoption figures indicate that essentially nobody is learning Mandarin outside of China. It's such a small percentage as to be rounding error versus the major international languages like English, Spanish, French, German. Due to the tightly controlled culture of China (eg the firewall), which barricades foreigners to the outside and natives to the inside, that will continue to be true. The difficulty of learning Mandarin makes that even worse.