Re: Schools in Pakistan's Sindh province to teach Chinese
it is.
Its not.
Its Mandarin.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-30/mandarin-chinese-most-useful-business-language-after-english-1-.html
Mandarin Chinese Most Useful Business Language After English
The future is … Mandarin
It should be in this order..
- English for now, until the sun sets.
- Urdu
- Mandarin (latter when the sunsets replaced with #1 above)
Perhaps it is time for us all to brush up on our Mandarin. 
Re: Schools in Pakistan's Sindh province to teach Chinese
I think there are some other countries which are making Chinese language instruction available at least. It is not that English will go away. However, being able to understand the Chinese through their own language is a great advantage. There is so much cultural stuff which comes with language. NOT knowing another culture's language and perspective puts one at a great disadvantage.
There is an advantage to knowing a lot of languages. But Pakistan doesnt have the luxury of spending limited resources on a whole new language when they have yet to be able to properly teach English, and even Urdu to some extent.
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Those who are likely to interact with chinese should be able to learn it (i.e the choice should be there)...........rest of the people don't need it really...
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and the saga of mismanagement and haram khori continues…
Vowing to build a stronger relationship with China — Pakistan’s ‘irreplaceable’ and ‘all-weather’ friend — the Sindh government had decided to promote the Chinese language and culture in the province around a year ago. Amid the tall claims and never-ending rhetoric, the provincial education department had even allocated Rs121 million to introduce the Chinese language as a compulsory subject for classes VI to Matriculation in schools across the province…
Like all such projects, however, this too has been limited to paper alone. Until the filing of this report, there have been no concerted efforts to implement the project, except frequent visits of senior bureaucrats, officials of the education department and elected representatives to China…
Re: Schools in Pakistan’s Sindh province to teach Chinese
I wonder if China is teaching it’s kids Urdu and Pakistani culture. Man Pakistanis should learn Persian.
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This should be investigated. Amounts should be re-reimburse to government from these officials.
They should focus on English, French, Spanish and German languages if stupid want their population to prosper in such countries.
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They should teach Sindhi first, then think about Chinese language. :cobra:
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They do teach Sindhi.