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Mandarin Chinese as the next business language of the Pacific Rim
The question of whether Chinese Mandarin has the potential to become the official business language of the world still invites debates. Although most peoples of the world have grown accustomed to English as the global language of commerce, science and entertainment, the imminent collapse of the British Empire and the decreasing economic predominance of the US will soon render English an unlikely choice for a business language. However, the choice for the eventual global business language shall rest on geopolitical and macroeconomic trends as well as political and social truths.See the full content of this document
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The new Mandarins.
A prim twenty-one year-old with a perpetual smile, Yumi is quick-witted, energetic, and thus, one would think, eminently employable. But the Japanese job market, tough for a young woman in the best of times, has been downright forbidding in the past few years of economic slow-down. So Yumi has ventured to multilingual Singapore to improve her job prospects, betting that foreign language skills will raise her chances.
There are many young Japanese women with similar intentions at Yumi's language school. There are also s...See the full content of this document
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