How important is the English Language in geopolitics?
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Posted Mar 2, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC
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Many countries already know how to study and learn English. Their understanding of Chinese is generally less. In the future, English may be supplanted by Chinese because money talks and we are in debt, and could go down the tubes.
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Not for millennia , but at least for this century.
Is English inherently more easy to learn? I have been told Spanish is easy to learn and I grew up in Canada and took French immersion in grade 7 and 8. Still do not really feel I know French but I worked in it as an editor for a few years. Dated a francophone for 7 years.
I can’t see others learning Chinese.
It depends on what language you grow up speaking with. Most of the world deals Indo-european languages, so I'd say it's a bit easier for most of the world to learn English than say Mandarin (which is from a different family).
Besides, these days English is so abundant you can basically learn just by soaking it in.
if your native language uses the alphabet, it is inherently easier for you to learn another language base on it.