• SorryImLate@piefed.social
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      17 minutes ago

      New world order on its way. I wonder how long it will take Western countries to start offering Mandarin in school.

      Edit to add: To clarify: I don’t mean offered as an optional language but as mandatory, the way English is right now in, for example, Switzerland.

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          13 minutes ago

          Possible but not required. I meant as a replacement for how English is currently a mandatory foreign language in many European countries.

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        11 hours ago

        …Pretty sure it was offered 20 years ago in Scotland, a friend’s son was doing it.