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American Students Are Learning Mandarin In Droves, With Not Enough Teachers. English is the native tongue of more than 300 million people in the world. But more than 1 billion speak Mandarin Chinese. Chinese has become the newest export to the United States, where in the last few years the study of Chinese has gone from pretty much zero to thousands of students. It’s growing fast: from Maryland, where a third of the schools now teach Chinese, to Chicago, where most classes are in urban schools, CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports.
Chinese is here to stay as a world language. However, I think the script might be latinized if it were really to become ‘the’ International language, as most of the world would not learn the script as second language and its not practical for even basic technology such as keyboards.
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