Russian v. Chinese major

Dionysus58
Tue, 11 May 2010 17:39:40 +0000

Your father is thoroughly misinformed and completely wrong on just about every count. China may well be the fastest growing economy, but virtually all its international business is conducted in English. The Chinese language, no matter how important China becomes, will always be confined to China; whereas English, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Arabic all have enormous value and worth internationally. Russian is spoken in eleven countries, Chinese only one.



Chinese is the number one spoken language, that’s where everything’s going to be in the next ten years



English is actually the worlds most spoken language, and as for everything being in China in a decade; that’s what people said about Japan in the 80s, it’s all rubbish. It is foolish to even consider studying Chinese when you obviously have a genuine interest in Russian.