June 24th, 2008

Learning Chinese ? It’s a piece of cake… !

You did not know this, really…?

I heard this from a friend and wanted to find out if Yan Jiechi really meant this… Thanks to Danwei and Countdown To Beijing, I did.

At a press conference in March, China’s foreign minister, Yang Jiechi said:

I believe that Chinese is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn. Otherwise, how can you explain why 1.3 billion people have chosen it as their mother tongue?

How do we take this ? I did not really had the choice of my mother tongue myself, did you ?

Maybe Yan was just joking… maybe not !

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