Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Are Chinese People Really Bad At English? | ASIAN BOSS" video.

  1. There's plenty of places in the world that speak neither, and you'd be better off with French, Spanish, Russian, or Arabic. (Consequently these are all the other official languages of the UN)
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  2. The proportion of multilingual English speakers isn't impressive, but it is growing. However the default second language to learn isn't necessarily Mandarin -- there is none, it's just based on the speaker's individual situation and preferences.
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  3. English is a surprisingly very sound-dependent language, which can't really be taught by memorizing straight text
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  4. There's about as many Korean speakers as there are Francophones, but Korean is only spoken on the peninsula and part of Manchuria, whereas French also nets much of SE Asia, the South Pacific, and half of Africa.
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