Comments on: 400 Million People in China Can’t Speak The National Language

By: Ollivier

Ollivier — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:31:00 +0000

Like France almost 150 years ago, but not in a so dramatic position, about 15% of the population was able to speak french and the governments had to force people to speak/read/write french. Now we have to fight for save our local dialects, and event ask to make laws for that purpose.

By: Tomás Francis Swinburne

Tomás Francis Swinburne — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:52:00 +0000

The last remark on Chinese adopting English is quite honestly hilarious. Putonghua for all its faults is still a unifying factor for 1.3 billion people. However, it still needs to be said, people deserve to have the right to their own localised culture.

By: jixiang

jixiang — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 05:34:00 +0000

The idea that the Chinese are going to stop speaking Chinese in favour of English is laughable in the short term. Typical lazy journalism.

By: Truthful

Truthful — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 05:11:00 +0000

Yeah this is why you see Chinese standing around shouting at each other.
They dont understand what’s being said