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Well, what you call an Anglosphere attitude is a reality of learning in a majority of non-english speaking countries: There's simply not enough resources for le

Well, what you call an Anglosphere attitude is a reality of learning in a majority of non-english speaking countries: There's simply not enough resources for learning in your own language. China is huge so I can see how it could work for them, but I still have to admit it's very hard for me to imagine someone becoming say a competent web dev without picking at least some basic English along the way, so they can handle at least the documentation and stay in a loop on new tech coming out all the time. It's not anything new as a concept, nor I see it as damaging for local cultures in any way - back in my University days I've learned myself some Russian so that I could read their physics and chemistry books which were excellent and way cheaper and easier for me to get than those from the West. One day I'll have no problem learning some Chinese if (or more likely when?) they become the referent source of knowledge.

__alexs 5y ago
> China is huge so I can see how it could work for them, but I still have to admit it's very hard for me to imagine someone becoming say a competent web dev without picking at least some basic English along the way, Having worked with some large software teams in China my experience was that most people could speak a bit of English (but generally didn't want to) and were nowhere near at the level needed to actually design and write software in English. If we forced them to do everything in English quality was terrible and everything took ages, but it we let them write in Mandarin things were much better.
notJim 5y ago
> it's very hard for me to imagine someone becoming say a competent web dev without picking at least some basic English along the way, so they can handle at least the documentation and stay in a loop on new tech coming out all the time. Why would they need to learn English to do those things? I'm sure there are Chinese-language tech news sites, and Chinese-language documentation.

__alexs 5y ago

> China is huge so I can see how it could work for them, but I still have to admit it's very hard for me to imagine someone becoming say a competent web dev without picking at least some basic English along the way, Having worked with some large software teams in China my experience was that most people could speak a bit of English (but generally didn't want to) and were nowhere near at the level needed to actually design and write software in English. If we forced them to do everything in English quality was terrible and everything took ages, but it we let them write in Mandarin things were much better.

notJim 5y ago

> it's very hard for me to imagine someone becoming say a competent web dev without picking at least some basic English along the way, so they can handle at least the documentation and stay in a loop on new tech coming out all the time. Why would they need to learn English to do those things? I'm sure there are Chinese-language tech news sites, and Chinese-language documentation.