汉语是否会成为世界上最流行的语言
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S
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our Topics in Focus. The honored guests
who we have invited today are Professor Zhou from Confucius Institute abroad and Lucy
from the Nanjing University. Nice to meet you.
C Nice to meet you.
L Nice to meet you.
S
This week we are about to discuss something about a well-known language, Chinese. As is
known to all, Chinese, namely, the common language of the Han nationality, is also the
language which has a largest number of users on a global scale.
L Many of the students in the USA are interested in Chinese from the products made in China.
Following the increasing international trade, Chinese is universally adopted throughout the
world.
C That is the truth. In recent years, more and more politicians, lawyers, business elites and
media advocates have attended the courses conducted by the Confucius Institute abroad. I
have a strong feeling that Chinese is so popular in other regions that just like English is
popular in China.
S A
mature language bases on a profound culture background. Some linguists infer that it is
highly possible for Chinese to become the most popular language in the world within around
50 years. Then, what is your attitude towards this opinion?
L I love Chinese very much and learn Chinese by heart. However, I still find it too difficult to do
well in
speaking Chinese. China has a history longer than 5000 years, so Chinese
culture
enriches the substances of the language. In addition, China is a country located in the East, the
origin of civilization development differs a lot from the West. It is pretty hard for Westerns to
accept this kind of language and use it as a skillful tool to communicate.
S So the origin of culture may reject the spread of Chinese.
C Actually, cultures are harmony in diversity. Chinese, as one of the most perfect languages, has
run a long course from a remote source. It lives through several conquests. Its fascination even
conquers other nationalities in history. Nowadays, Chinese is on the road of standardization
and unification while adapting the rapidly changing society. Unlike English, it is able to name
a new object or describe a new phenomenon without creating a new character.
S Yes, time will tell. There is only one country using Chinese as the mother language, but more
than 170 countries and regions using English as the official language at present.
L The largest number of users does not represent the width of the use. It is an obvious fact that
China has a largest population in the world. Chinese is becoming popular, but is a kind of
language without expansion due to its national characteristic. It is not so easy to globalize
Chinese anyway.
C Acting as a mother tongue of only one country
is not a pity. Although there are
many
differences in Chinese in different parts of the country, the continual communication develops
the language in a same direction. On the contrary, during the colonization, English has been
added into various types of culture origins and emerges the different types of English which
are not mutual acceptable.
S Language is a tool for communication worldwide. We hope all the languages will develop
healthily in the future. Thank you very much for coming to our program. It was really a great
pleasure having a discussion. Well, that is the end of today’s talk show. Thank you for your
attention. See you next week.