English is a germanic language. You say "gut" instead of "good", "zu" instead of "to", "wir" instead of "we", "Wetter" instead of "Weather", "nichts zu tun" instead of "nothing to do".
You will not be doing as much effort as someone from a totally different native language. The CIA calculated that it requires over 4 times the effort to learn Chinese for an English speaker than learning French. It also applies back, a Chinese will find it very hard to learn proper English.
Learning English for a german student is as easy as taking the train and spending some days in England.
Now for most Chinese, or even Indian(they have more than 20 languages) people, or Arabic,it is not so easy.
The fact is that they are in a disadvantage,not in a leveled field and they don't like it.
They are the majority of the population in the world, so if they develop their economies they will force everybody else to learn their native language, not the other way around.
By then everybody will speak enough english that it won't matter. The economies of the network effect are quite simple.
And of course I'm at an advantage, the very fact that I'm german would put me at an advantage even if english was as far away as possible from german, because I have the resources, I have free education and I have free medicare, plus 400 years of the subjugation of the third world in my back. So what. Life isn't fair, the worlds top 30 People own as much as the bottom 3 Billion, thats unfair.
Instead of bickering about which language would be fairest to adopt you should help make everyone adopt SOME language so that they can organize and exchange. So that they can understand for themselves what other are saying instead of having to rely on potentially biased news. So that they can talk to each other, for sympathy and empathy and understanding.
English is a germanic language. You say "gut" instead of "good", "zu" instead of "to", "wir" instead of "we", "Wetter" instead of "Weather", "nichts zu tun" instead of "nothing to do".
You will not be doing as much effort as someone from a totally different native language. The CIA calculated that it requires over 4 times the effort to learn Chinese for an English speaker than learning French. It also applies back, a Chinese will find it very hard to learn proper English.
Learning English for a german student is as easy as taking the train and spending some days in England.
Now for most Chinese, or even Indian(they have more than 20 languages) people, or Arabic,it is not so easy.
The fact is that they are in a disadvantage,not in a leveled field and they don't like it.
They are the majority of the population in the world, so if they develop their economies they will force everybody else to learn their native language, not the other way around.