Re: Half of all Chinese people can't speak Mandarin!
- From: "ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx" <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 May 2005 06:40:01 -0700
Dylan Sung wrote:
> <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1117277049.200627.269790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/23/2003256286
> > The National Language Commission's survey also found that many of the
> > 53 percent of China's 1.3 billion people who can speak Mandarin are not
> > frequent Mandarin users.
> >
>
> Just taking your statement at face value,
It's not my statement; I was surprised by the statistic and posted it
for comments.
> 47 percent of speakers must,
> therefore, be frequent speakers of Mandarin.
>
> My wife is a mainland Chinese, therefore one of those in the statistics you
> have. We speak a non-Mandarin Chinese dialect at home, but we watch Mandarin
> DVDs at home. In our daily lives, even though she can speak it, she doesn't
> often use it.
>
> Being someone who "can" speak a language and not using it frequently does
> not suggest what you put in the subject, i.e. "Half of all Chinese people
> can't speak Mandarin!".
That was the title of the article.
> It is probable that the majority of people who do
> not speak Mandarin frequently even though they can, are like me.
>
> Dyl.
.
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