Mandarin will never be a lingua franca, no matter how influential The Chinese Empire becomes.
I have to agree. People like to say English is difficult because there are a million loan words and spelling/grammar have no hard and fast rules, but character based languages are on a different level of difficulty. Even if it shifted to something like pinyin for text, the subtle tone shifting and having tons of a homophones are a huge barrier to entry.
It won’t, but it eliminates an unfair advantage in a business setting. It is amazing the shit people will say when they assume you do not understand.
But it makes it seems like your trying if you can speak to your masters in their own language.
Yeah that’s why they’re doing everything to give China power. They’ve already got things planned out
This explains Dengist-verse.
