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slaslasla
7y ago
Personal attack? How fitting on a post about languages that people can't seem to read.
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slaslasla
7y ago
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. You have your qualms a
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slaslasla
7y ago
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 sea
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slaslasla
7y ago
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?
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slaslasla
7y ago
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 required to pass