I don’t see Mandarin taking over English as the default language, so to speak. Mainly because it’s way easier for people who know languages like Spanish, German, other European languages to pick up English as a second language then it would be for them to learn Chinese or another Asian one.
Yeah, but there are probably more of Mandarin speakers than all the others combined.
Native English speakers are definitely a minority globally. And I’m not even saying taking over, just that in some places it might be an additional one, and English won’t be the language, only a language.
To the point that not knowing Mandarin at all might be a similar disadvantage in the world as not knowing English at all.
I don’t see Mandarin taking over English as the default language, so to speak. Mainly because it’s way easier for people who know languages like Spanish, German, other European languages to pick up English as a second language then it would be for them to learn Chinese or another Asian one.
Yeah, but there are probably more of Mandarin speakers than all the others combined.
Native English speakers are definitely a minority globally. And I’m not even saying taking over, just that in some places it might be an additional one, and English won’t be the language, only a language.
To the point that not knowing Mandarin at all might be a similar disadvantage in the world as not knowing English at all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers#Ethnologue_(2024)
The stats seem to indicate that English is the most spoken language still, though Mandarin wins on first language speakers by far which makes sense.