Right.
Here’s another to get you all overwrought and agitated.
No doubt the Daily Mail has exagerated as usual.
However, after listening to something on Radio 4 this afternoon about exports, I might ask why we are wasting the time of young people teaching them what is in effect a dead language anyway..?
The piece on R4 informed me that less than 2% of Britain’s total exports go to China, whereas our ‘EU partners’ the jolly old Germans manage nearer 10% and are looking to increase that figure.
Apparently they are willing to organise themselves better than we are. That of course includes learning Chinese languages and customs.
I might suggest that if we are to dig ourselves out of the current deep hole, then teaching Mandarin for future adults might be a better bet than something which apparently has no vowels, and no one other than the Welsh in Wales (a place I never go to by choice) speaks.
As ever, kick it around to your hearts content.
Andy
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November 14, 2012 at 7:07 pm