 Re: Is it possible that Chinese would take the palce of English?
Chinese will increase in importance considerably, but I honestly don't think it will supplant English as an international language. Japan has had the world's second largest economy for ages, but that has had relatively little impact. Also, the size of the population isn't that important- there could be ten thousand workers in a factory, but I only need to speak to a very few to trade. More and more people will learn it, but I don't see it becoming the world's lingua franca. |