Next International Language?

Mandarin is just one of the many languages of China. There is actually no such thing as "the Chinese language". So I disagree with everything you have stated.

Sorry sweetie, but english will always be the international language. Maybe in our next life, we might consider changing it, but i won't hold my breath if i were you. Nice topic though.

It would be too hard for more older people to learn. This would only be a good idea if they do like in many international schools but in the cas of English. Giving lessons while still young to learn both languages and speak both fluently but still i am not sure if it will be chinese. It might be more Portuguese or Spanish. There are also many places arouns the world with people that speak these languages or languages similiar to these ones.

In my view, it's the tendency that the influence of Chinese language especially Mandarin will grow larger and larger in the world. But I don't think that it could replace English and becomes the next international language. It's a fact that one fifth of people in the world speak Chinese language, but don't forget that most of them live in one country. Many foreigners learn Mandarin for they are interested in Chinese culture or wanna do business with Chinese people. Mandarin will never be their first language. Another obstacle is that Mandarin is quite difficult to learn compared with English, especially for those live in the countries belong to Indo-European family of languages.

I don't think there will be another International Language that will be used like English. I agree that China is a big country and Mandarin is also learned by other nationalities around the globe. But not the majority of Chinese people speak Mandarin. Besides there are a great number of Chinese, Indian and other Nationality that still learn English. You can go around the world and you will see that no matter how far and no matter what country or raise, they will know a bit of English, they will at least know to say yes or no, or Hi, or How are you and thank you. I think that English will always be the International Language.

I think it is hard to replace English as an International language, but if there is a language to replace English I hope the language use standard Latin alphabet like English because learning a new language is difficult and learning the writing alphabet going to be another problem, it will be hard to learn the Chinese alphabet because im used to Latin alphabet. So I think if there is language to replace Englih as International language I would prefer French, Spanish, Deutch, Dutch or Spanish. I speak Javanese and Bahasa Indonesia but Bahasa Indonesia use standard latin alphabet, I speak Javanese but I dont know how to write in Javanese because it has it owns alphabet.

I speak a bit of German and Thai. I travel to different parts of the world on my business trips once in a while, and, yes, it would help a lot for doing businesses and for socializing if one can speak the language of the country. Chinese is spoken in many countries, Mandarin and Cantonese. I tried to learn Mandarin once, but didn't make progress much.

There are over 1.3 billion people in China and I think they have a common language that all of them speak. That means that there are already more people speaking it than people speak English. But the trend is people from all over the world including from China all want to speak English and they are all learning English. So I guess it will take a while before English is replaced.