Just compare the delicacies of the differences between British English & American English, if not only for the different understated meanings.
The "funky word order" of German makes sense from a German perspective (and back to ancient Latin & Greek).
Mandarin is not simple, comparatively to English.
Yet, you can be quite assured that, would China, for instance, get the military & cultural influence UK/US had for 2 centuries, by 2200 they wouldn't have spread something else than a globalized Mandarin worldwide (as it happened for English; and French and Spanish before them).
Just compare the delicacies of the differences between British English & American English, if not only for the different understated meanings.
The "funky word order" of German makes sense from a German perspective (and back to ancient Latin & Greek).
Mandarin is not simple, comparatively to English. Yet, you can be quite assured that, would China, for instance, get the military & cultural influence UK/US had for 2 centuries, by 2200 they wouldn't have spread something else than a globalized Mandarin worldwide (as it happened for English; and French and Spanish before them).