I have a dream that one day my son and his American
friends could communicate with each other in Chinese, naturally and happily.
I have a dream that one day everyone is
born to be capable of speaking Chinese.
I have a dream that one day my son can
proudly tell his son:’ you no longer need study English.’
But when I woke up to the joy of getting
rid of English, I found it was high time that I went to CELC learning English. Despite
the fact that in recent times, English act as a common language for people
across the globe to speak, it cannot cover its inherent drawbacks which may greatly
contribute to its failure as compared to Chinese.One of its fatal weaknesses is that for each new object, it must create a new word which none know its meaning except its creator. Take ‘altostratus’ for example. It means a layer of flat cloud, lying at medium height, or one of the clouds which form this layer. Few people exactly know this word’s meaning unless they are atmosphere professionals. On the contrary, even third-graders in China know the meaning of its equivalent in Chinese, regardless of their age or major. (in fact, they have no majors).
In addition to the previous point, English also has a bulky grammar system which made it not only a tough job for language learners to gain a clear idea but also hard for native speakers to use freely. For instance, it has 16 tenses, a wide array of moods and different shapes for a word. They serve as endless traps waiting for us to fall in and make us extremely confused. However, Chinese neither has tenses nor moods. Nouns need not add a ‘tail (end)’, either. Due to this, Chinese is more human friendly than English.
The third point, which few people have ever noticed, is that Chinese does much less harm to the environment. It is allegedly the fact that each time Chinese officials attend conferences at UN, they always consume the least time to deliver a speech and the least paper to put their notes down. Few other countries have done as well as China in terms of this. Compared to other languages, Chinese is incontestably the most efficient and environment friendly one.
All in all, Chinese exceed English in many aspects. However, dream is enjoying; life is suffering. Now that it is an irresistible trend towards the universal popularity of English, it is not our turn to make a choice between English and Chinese. The only thing we can do at present is study English hard and have a promising future.
Thanks for your honored patience to finish it. Have a good day!
Maybe it is a wonderful dream. But,personally, you can never tell which language is better. We need to choose English because most latest vital information is in English, such as academic papers, journals and some news. Moreover, mastering two, even three language at the same time is a wonderful experience, which makes us know more about other culture and offer us a wider eyesight to the world.
ReplyDeleteOh hanwen, you have commented so many blogs!And I also have a dream
ReplyDelete......really?
Deleteyes, it indeed needs enough patience to read your article!XD
ReplyDeletewhat we can do is just to build ourselves with strong English abilities and contribute ourselves to the development of motherland.As China become a more and more important and stronger economy, we have reason to believe Chinese will become more and more popular!
Ambitious.
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