Comment on what language would be best for me to learn?
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 day agoChina’s economic growth was on such a steep climb for enough years that we all basically thought we’d need to know Mandarin to get by in the future. Remember in Firefly how they all cursed in Mandarin because it was basically the primary language of humanity. I know white people in California that send their kids to Mandarin language school.
But this impression has peaked. In the 80s we thought we’d all be speaking Japanese soon. And the Chinese growth miracle is over. With demographic collapse staring them in the face, I’m no longer seeing them featuring so prominently in 20 years. India has surpassed their population and are taking a lot of their business - and they speak English
Though I suppose as languages go, Mandarin is as good as any other and better than many. What are you going to do with Italian, honestly?
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Lol even though I have Italian ancestry this is exactly why I chose Spanish instead when I needed to choose a language to study in highschool. I’ve since forgotten a bunch of it, but it still helps since I’ve always worked with a least a few Spanish speaking people that didn’t speak English well.