(February 8, 2015 at 10:46 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: Mandarin Chinese and English are currently the frontrunners for a global language. I believe English will win out simply because so many who speak Mandarin as a fist language already speak at least enough English to conduct business and most are willing to learn while many who speak English as a first language have no interest in learning a second.
The number of speaker of a language should be less important an indicator of whether a language is vigorously competitive as a global language than how culturally diverse are the background of its speakers.
In this Chinese is not anywhere close to being a real front runner.
