I'm beginning to slightly question my decision to take up weekly Spanish lessons this term. Why? you ask. Now, yours truly is Chinese, born in Malaysia, brought up by parents who went to missionary schools in KL. That makes me fluent in English, with seven years' worth of Malay and Mandarin lessons complete with tuition, Cantonese picked up in late in primary school and from HK friends, and French GCSE on a piece of paper.
Couple o' facts and figures:
- there are more than 500 million native English-speaking people;
- 2 billion people will speak English as a second language with a decade;
- currently 1.1 billion Mandarin speakers
- employers are increasingly looking for bi- and even trilingual candidates - the continuing trend of "global languages" are English, Chinese, Spanish and Japanese.
Arrrghhh I don't wanna become a "jack of all trades, master of none"!! Dammit.. so how, so how? Spreading myself too thin la :S
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