Why learning English has become a fad in China

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Kunming, China: Learning English has become a fad in China. The generation next is driving the change towards communicating in English across China.

Almost three lakh Chinese register for English classes every year.

Young Xi and his friends study at a university in Kunming in south-western china but they don't speak Chinese among themselves. This group prefers to communicate in English just like lakhs of Chinese who are getting hooked on to the foreign language. This is the world's most populous nation and soon enough it aspires to become the world's largest English-speaking nation.

"In the future probably English can be a single language in the future," said Young Xi, English Major student, Dianchi Inter-College, Kunming, Yunnan province.

"English will help me get the top job in China," said Gao Liang, English Major student, Dianchi Inter-College, Kunming, Yunnan province.

If you are in China, you will hardly see any signboards in English. The Chinese hardly use English as a medium of communication within the country but that is changing and the change is being brought in by generation next.

Two weeks ago Kunming municipal officials decreed that shops with outdoor signs would have to strictly abide by a new regulation - putting up an 'English-language logo' - a move aimed at the drawing foreign businessmen and tourists who flock here.

'You get more job opportunities. China is developing fast and you require many people who can communicate in English," said Zhou Young, English Major student, Dianchi Inter-College, Kunming, Yunnan province.

The craze for learning English peaked just before the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when the government began aiming to make China more international.

Today, the English-learning industry in China is worth nearly 2 billion pounds. There are more than 50 thousand English-training organisations in the country.

In Beijing alone, an estimated three lakh people attend English classes every year. The obsession to learn English runs deeper, thousands of Chinese parents are sending their children to summer camps in the US.

After all, knowing English has its perks. It helps you climb the ladder faster in white collar China.

Link : Why learning English has become a fad in China - World News - IBNLive

 

[below_freezing]

Yeah its an obsession in theory and I was actually a victim of this fad (fraud).

English is worthless in the working world.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

English was extremely popular between 1990s to 2000s, but now its popularity in China starts to fade away. That's why it was only a 'fad'.

 

[daiyu]

the chance of meeting the Chinese people communicate each other in english in mainland China while walking on the streets just as likely to win the lottery.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Because Mandarin has no use.

And Chinese can smell money even if it is in Mars.

Visit Singapore, Malaysia or China to understand how they can hassle you!

Or check Russel Peter and his 'Be a Man'.

 

[jdme]

English lets you participate in global exchange of information. This goes beyond any monetary gain.

 

[chinapakistan]

Because Mandarin has no use.

And Chinese can smell money even if it is in Mars.

Visit Singapore, Malaysia or China to understand how they can hassle you!

Or check Russel Peter and his 'Be a Man'.

If Mandarin , a language has 40 million people leaning it world wide has no use, then what the status Hindi is. Did you want to tell us Hindi is a Junk language implicitly?

 

[jdme]

If Mandarin , a language has 40 million people leaning it world wide has no use, then what the status Hindi is. Did you want to tell us Hindi is a Junk language implicitly?

Hindi, Urdu,...and the rest...

 

[W.11]

Hindi, Urdu,...and the rest...

dont bring urdu into this

 

[jdme]

dont bring urdu into this

What, you 4 or something? Nah. Lets just discuss things like how we can bash Jews, right?

 

[Anonymous user]

Because Mandarin has no use.

And Chinese can smell money even if it is in Mars.

Visit Singapore, Malaysia or China to understand how they can hassle you!

Or check Russel Peter and his 'Be a Man'.

Tourist generally get hassled by the locals who need to make money, do you really think if everyone could get decent jobs they would like to to do that. It happens everywhere including Indonesia, Philippines and lesser developed countries including your own.

Stop generalizing you racist twit.

 

[below_freezing]

the chinese want to learn english ,because they want to learn american slang words which they would use against them in war (lol)

Reminds me of the Korean War training books in China for teaching the basic English needed to communicate with American POWs.

焊丝阿普(Hansi Apu): Hands up!
当特穆府(Dangte Mufu): Don't move!
味儿伊始有尔贝始 (Weier Yishi Youer Beishi): Where is your base?

 

[asianamerican]

Anyone who favors another language over their own in their own country is surely a brainwashed idiots.

They will be laughed at, being so damn pretentious. When ones throws away ones language for another, there can be no more contribution or growth for that language.

Look at India. English speaking country laugh at their accents and their own writers are discriminated against in favor of English writers who fits into the Western narrative. Indian English writers can't compete with English writes, because the language is not part of their culture.

The Chinese government are very aware and pretty astute about these things. They will stop it before it gets out of hand. Only lazy country adopt English as their language of choices, since they have no literary imagination to further their own language.

Speaking of Singapore, English lads walk around feeling like they are Gods, since even the local both men and women are so quick to lick the English feets. That is what happened when you glorify English and Foreigner.

On Indonesia, there are some iditos who can't speak Indonesian even when they are born there, since they go to English school their whole goddamn life. Shameful.

 

[lynx]

^^ I agree. Actually I envy Chinese, Germans , French , Koreans, Japanese etc as they can do higher studies in their mother tongue. They don't realize how difficult is for a student from country like India to do study in a language which is not his mother tongue. I actually studied by converting the lessons in English to my mother tongue, understand it and reconverting back to English. Thus it had to put in twice as much effort than it takes for a student from China who study the same in Mandarin.

Also a person can reach high positions in France or China or Korea without knowing a word of English. In India you are going nowhere without the knowledge of English.

 

[jdme]

Anyone who favors another language over their own in their own country is surely a brainwashed idiots.

They will be laughed at, being so damn pretentious. When ones throws away ones language for another, there can be no more contribution or growth for that language.

Look at India. English speaking country laugh at their accents and their own writers are discriminated against in favor of English writers who fits into the Western narrative. Indian English writers can't compete with English writes, because the language is not part of their culture.

The Chinese government are very aware and pretty astute about these things. They will stop it before it gets out of hand. Only lazy country adopt English as their language of choices, since they have no literary imagination to further their own language.

Speaking of Singapore, English lads walk around feeling like they are Gods, since even the local both men and women are so quick to lick the English feets. That is what happened when you glorify English and Foreigner.

On Indonesia, there are some iditos who can't speak Indonesian even when they are born there, since they go to English school their whole goddamn life. Shameful.

I fear that US is under trouble from people like you who live in US are willing to sell it in heartbeat for China. What a blithering piece of claptrap.