• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If all of the claims from Chinese tech companies and research was half as good as they claim we would all learn Mandarin by now.

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      1 day ago

      That is exactly right, and simplified Chinese is actually extremely popular to learn here now. (Denmark)
      And no wonder, they have become leaders of several key (future) technologies.

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        4 hours ago

        Counter point: I know exactly one person who learned Mandarin and several dozen who don‘t. Pretty much everyone learned english and (to a lesser degree) a third language that isn‘t Mandarin either. French, Spanish and Japanese are popular, though.

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      1 day ago

      Have you heard of a man named Elon Musk? He’s the king of over promising. US company’s put out just as much garbage “look we solved X” as China dude.