The number of internet users accessing the web in Chinese is set to overtake English language users by 2015, according to a report by the UN Broadband Commission.
In May 2011, there were 565 million English internet users, compared to 510 million Chinese users, representing 27 per cent and 24 per cent of total global internet users, respectively.
The report predicts that if current growth rates continue, Chinese will overtake English as the main language used by internet users in 2015.
This switch is largely due to China's massive population, now over 1.3 billion people.
Just under 40 per cent of people in China use the internet, compared to 82 per cent in the United Kingdom, and 78 in the United States.
Internet adoption in China is happening with a stronger emphasis on mobile phones. Nearly half of all smartphones are now sold in China, but only 12 out of every 100 individuals have a fixed broadband subscription
漂亮妹妹
漂亮妹妹
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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English is THE world language, they can just sod off!
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The internet was invented in the USofA dammit!
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The internet was invented in the USofA dammit!
SO
转至“吸一个鸡蛋
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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rubato
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I am forever grateful that I can speak English. It does make it so much easier for travel to many foreign speaking countries that they have learnt English as well.
I weep for my diminishing German skills, though German isn't that widely spoken either.
Maybe one day I will take a 'walk in the Black Forrest' and see how much Deutsch I can still understand and speak.
I weep for my diminishing German skills, though German isn't that widely spoken either.
Maybe one day I will take a 'walk in the Black Forrest' and see how much Deutsch I can still understand and speak.
Bah!
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By an Englishman.dales wrote:English is THE world language, they can just sod off!
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The internet was invented in the USofA dammit!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Partly true, the internet got its nexus from DARPA in the late 1960's as a military/industrial interface.
The internet was/is/and will be soley the domain of English-speaking peoples, so there - China!
The internet was/is/and will be soley the domain of English-speaking peoples, so there - China!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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rubato
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You mean Al Gore didn't invent the internet?!?!?!!? 
). When we came back, I would talk to my grandparents in German as much as possible. Sadly my Grandfather passed away in 1984 and my Grandmother about 5 years ago. Since then I have not used it other than a phrase here or there.
My German skills have all but left me. I spent a summer in Germany with my cousing and Grandparents way back in 1975 and learned enough to converse (somewhat intelligentlyThe Hen wrote:I am forever grateful that I can speak English. It does make it so much easier for travel to many foreign speaking countries that they have learnt English as well.
I weep for my diminishing German skills, though German isn't that widely spoken either.
Maybe one day I will take a 'walk in the Black Forrest' and see how much Deutsch I can still understand and speak.
). When we came back, I would talk to my grandparents in German as much as possible. Sadly my Grandfather passed away in 1984 and my Grandmother about 5 years ago. Since then I have not used it other than a phrase here or there.