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ppk89 (显示个人资料) 2011年8月24日下午8:42:40
Do you think that Esperanto could play this role and it would be a good 'opportunity' for it to gain popularity?
geo63 (显示个人资料) 2011年8月24日下午8:49:48
ppk89:'BRIC' stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China, in other words, the emerging economies which will soon dominate the world. However for none of them English is native language so it's not very likely that they will take on English as a main business language.If China is involved, expect rather Chinese as the business language - it is so in Asia now, no need to wait for the future...
Do you think that Esperanto could play this role and it would be a good 'opportunity' for it to gain popularity?
geo63 (显示个人资料) 2011年8月24日下午9:12:48
ppk89:But by using Chinese they are risking to close out the other three countries with which they should co-operate and which I doubt will adopt any other language.Do Americans care about languages of other countries they co-operate with? - Speak English or die. Why should it be any different with China in future? Only the strongest one counts... others must stand small. It was, it is and it will be.
geo63 (显示个人资料) 2011年8月24日下午10:17:29
ppk89:Of course E-o doesn't have to take all the functions of the natural languages. But it still can be used as a cultural exchange, tourism, a News Channel and a few more songs.It was never meant to do so - "always the second language for every one". First of all E-o must gain some respect in the world. I think that 99% of the world population do not know what E-o really is and how helpful it could be for them. That is the big problem - to convince the man in the street that he/she can learn esperanto easily and use it with profit - as for now E-o is mostly seen as some old project, a dead language no one speaks, that it had its chance but failed. So people are afraid of it - if they hear the word ESPERANTO - they laugh, they make jokes, they do not consider it to be a language worth learning. I think that the esperanto community must take its own course to steadily grow and in some point in the future perheps "fina venko" will come - how long did it take to accept decimal numbers instead of Roman numerals? Do we have metric system everywhere? Such ideas as E-o need time to establish themselves in human mind. I am waiting, are you?
geo63 (显示个人资料) 2011年8月24日下午10:30:23
erinja:English is already very strong in India, since it is seen as the "neutral" language there.Short look at the press:
"The report says Indian universities fall far short of rival countries in the quality of teaching and research, and "poor English is one of the causes".
Also, the report adds, it is "impossible" to improve standards of English without addressing the problem of "very low levels of academic achievement" of students studying in government and private schools.
The study says a range of approaches is required to improve English proficiency in India, and no single method will help.
English has been spoken in India from the days of colonial rule, but there are no precise estimates on how many Indians speak, read and write English.
One estimate suggests 333 million people in India "use English", but India's National Knowledge Commission says "even now, no more than 1% of our people use English as a second language, let alone a first language". "
erinja (显示个人资料) 2011年8月24日下午10:53:56
There are many people worldwide who speak little or no English, who support use of English as "the international langauge".
Support of English is a political viewpoint that, in my opinion, doesn't relate at all to a person's ability or inability to actually speak English.
3rdblade (显示个人资料) 2011年8月25日上午12:57:27
In answer to your question, yes it could. Whether it will is another question.