Will Chinese Become a Global language?
Written by Colin Tsai
With China's reforming and opening, China's economy has developed rapidly. More and more countries are willing to cooperate with China in economy, culture and even politics, especially after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. We can see that Chinese cultural factors are more and more popular all around the
world. Chinese language, one of the important marks of Chinese culture, which is also popular among foreigners. We are glad to see that more and more foreigners like learning and understanding Chinese.
Will Chinese become a global language? As far as I'm concerned, Chinese won't be a global language. Firstly, the word-formation of Chinese is more complicated than that of English and Chinese characters are complicated too.So, it's difficult for foreigners to read and write, let alone to understand.That's really a barrier to the spreading of Chinese. Secondly, Chinses language stands for Chinese culture in a way and what we all know is that China is a country with more than 5000 years of history, its culture is broad and profound, bountiful. If a foreigner who wants to talk with Chinese in Chinese, a better knowledge of Chinese culture is needed, it's a time-consuming work as well. Last but not least, the history of English as a global language is long and the teaching system of English as a foreign language is complete compared with that of Chinese. Now, there are many programs of Chinese as a foreign language, such as Confucius Institutes, Chinese Bridge and so on. In China, now, Teaching Chinese As a Foreign Language is even a major. But in fact, they're just at a preliminary stage.
As we are Chinese, we are proud to see that more and more foreigners are fond of learning our mother tongue. However, as a matter of fact, there is a long way to go for Chinese being a global language and there is no doubt that we should still learn by heart even if we are Chinese.
短期内应该不会吧
不会,人类移民外星了也不会