Russia's Putin says his young family members speak fluent Mandarin Chinese
Russia's Putin says his young family members speak fluent Mandarin Chinese
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday (Aug 2) that young members of his family speak fluent Mandarin, though he told school children they should not forget the importance of English too despite the growing popularity of Chinese. Putin has two daughters with his ex-wife Lyudmila and...
Amid a growing partnership between China and Russia, Mandarin has been growing in popularity across Russia as a foreign language of choice, a trend Putin said was due to developing contacts across economics, politics and society.
Putin, who speaks fluent German but has also taken lessons to improve his English, said that pupils should not forget the importance of English.
Russian, English, Tatar, German and Chechen are the most widely spoken languages in Russia, according to the 2022 census. While Mandarin is spoken far less, it has been growing swiftly in popularity in recent years as a foreign language.
English is the world's most spoken language with about 1.5 billion speakers, followed by Mandarin Chinese with about 1.1 billion speakers, and then Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian and Urdu, according to Ethnologue, a language research centre.
11Huh sombody downvoted this comment when it was removed, i must have a fan
5Maybe, but also deletions don’t always propagate immediately—or ever—to other instances.
2Oh in that case it was chance it was actually deserved since i was pretty confused at first and the post was bad.
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Prepared for their future masters, I guess. Being fluent in Mandarin is a significant feat when it's not your first language, though. I wonder if they read it too, that would be even more impressive. I'd gladly learn it if I had a use for it, but I don't think I can allocate enough time and energy learn the writing at this point of my life anymore.
4Smartest thing I've heard attributed to him in a hot minute.
4Having Chinese overlords is going to be really shitty for the average Russian but nowhere near as shitty as what they have now.
1meh. its unlikely to be direct so more of another level of cut at the top diluting whats at the bottom.
1God, I've never lived in Russia, but having worked in China, that sounds like choosing between 2 hells.
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Soon all Russians has to learn Mandarin Chinese. As 1st language.
-2There was a comment on another thread how China could relatively easily use all their resources to successfully invade Russia.
But at this rate, I think China will just buy Russia for a few million dollars lol.
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