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Thread: Will Chinese become a "lingua franca"?
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[quote=LEONARDO,250104]Paul and JCNILE123 , Quote: Nothing is going to replace English as the major international language (excepting extreme situations where a Chinese government dominates the world and demands it) as English is already entrenched and spoken by businessmen, sportsmen and travellers. Given the difficulty of learning Chinese it just won't surpass English. Of course the situation would be a little different if China chooses to give up its character writing (like Korea and Vietnam have done) and switch to pinyin....but that won't happen. It seems that you two have enough confidence in the dominant status of English Language in the world. I don't want to argue with you on this point. However, you seem to hold that the major obstacle for Chinese going international is the complexity of writing characters. Well, from the first paragraph of Apault's reply, a country's economic power or political influence plays an important role in deciding whether its language will become a " lingua franca". Do you think which is more important? I do believe that economic and political influence are more important than the complexity of character writing. [/quote]
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