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Re:China has eclipsed US in AI, robotics and VC funding by CoryG89 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @07:16AM (#13122001)
> Too few people will be willing to learn Chinese anyway.

Probably won't matter in the future. English is cannibalizing all the other languages. English is the official language in Hong Kong. Not many Chinese know English yet, but they probably will.

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Re:China has eclipsed US in AI, robotics and VC funding by latch on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @08:26AM (#13122319)
English isn't "the" official language, it's one of the official languages. And, by a wide margin, you're better off knowing Cantonese.
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Re:China has eclipsed US in AI, robotics and VC funding by aclsid on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:02AM (#13122545)
No shit. For all the talk about Hong Kong being English based, I had a couple of times where I had to rely on my poor Mandarin to get my point across. Totally agree with parent post, better learn some Cantonese, especially for taxi drivers.
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Re:China has eclipsed US in AI, robotics and VC funding by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @08:32AM (#13122354)
...if talking to third-world poor is your goal?
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