{"id":11502,"date":"2014-09-24T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11502"},"modified":"2014-09-24T08:04:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:04:21","slug":"is-learning-mandarin-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/is-learning-mandarin-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Learning Mandarin Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/092414_1202_IsLearningM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As China continues its rise people, including President Obama&#8217;s daughter, are increasingly looking to learn Mandarin. Nikhil Sonnad wrote that the language isn&#8217;t as dominant in China as people think:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the Chinese government, only 70% of the country&#8217;s citizens speak Mandarin, and of those only 10% are fluent in it.<\/li>\n<li>This means that learning to speak anything more than basic Mandarin won&#8217;t really help in communicating with over 93% of China.<\/li>\n<li>Add in those from Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora abroad, and there are about 120 million fluent Mandarin speakers in the world.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast Spanish, a more popular second language in the west, is spoken by 400 million people in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Even if China goes onto dominate the international order Mandarin is unlikely to become the lingua franca due to the difficulty that people have learning it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about what the rest of China speaks, what the Japanese example tells us, and other Asian languages that have a comparable number of speakers but aren&#8217;t given much attention over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/269243\/people-in-the-west-need-to-stop-obsessing-over-learning-chinese\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/269243\/people-in-the-west-need-to-stop-obsessing-over-learning-chinese\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As China continues its rise people, including President Obama&#8217;s daughter, are increasingly looking to learn Mandarin. Nikhil Sonnad wrote that the language isn&#8217;t as dominant in China as people think: According to the Chinese government, only 70% of the country&#8217;s citizens speak Mandarin, and of those only 10% are fluent in it. This means that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/092414_1202_IsLearningM1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11505,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions\/11505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}