> It's a perfect recipe for success. And I just wonder why other countries can't apply the same recipe.
Because in capitalistic market economies you need to compete. This is a law of nature! Or something like that… /s
I would indeed like to see how this works in reality on side in China. But China has one big issue: Its written language. This is something that makes me really fear the idea to go there. If they would just manage to finally switch to some proper writing system, so even dumb boys like me could learn it, I would invest some time and try to learn the language. But as long as you need to memorize thousands of signs (and can't even use a dictionary…) this is really off-putting. I'm dyslexic and have already problems to write correctly in my mother tongue (German), and had a very hard time to learn English. The second most useful language to put effort in would be Chinese, sure. But this writing system, oh boy…
The Chines are smart and have a powerful government. Why can't they make this Pinyin finally happen? It would make learning reading and writing likely even easier for the still illiterate people on the Chines country side. (And no, I don't buy the argument that you need the signs to distinguish meaning for things that sound alike. The spoken language has no signs and it still works fine. And the whole language is anyway very context depended, so you need to think about the meanings of words or phrases quite precisely anyway.)
Because in capitalistic market economies you need to compete. This is a law of nature! Or something like that… /s
I would indeed like to see how this works in reality on side in China. But China has one big issue: Its written language. This is something that makes me really fear the idea to go there. If they would just manage to finally switch to some proper writing system, so even dumb boys like me could learn it, I would invest some time and try to learn the language. But as long as you need to memorize thousands of signs (and can't even use a dictionary…) this is really off-putting. I'm dyslexic and have already problems to write correctly in my mother tongue (German), and had a very hard time to learn English. The second most useful language to put effort in would be Chinese, sure. But this writing system, oh boy…
The Chines are smart and have a powerful government. Why can't they make this Pinyin finally happen? It would make learning reading and writing likely even easier for the still illiterate people on the Chines country side. (And no, I don't buy the argument that you need the signs to distinguish meaning for things that sound alike. The spoken language has no signs and it still works fine. And the whole language is anyway very context depended, so you need to think about the meanings of words or phrases quite precisely anyway.)