But let’s start with the benefits. The benefits of a new language arise from the new people you can interact with in your new language. If maximizing this was your only goal, Mandarin would be the best choice: This is the native language for 14% of the world’s population, and most of those people do not speak English, so it’s win-win.
不过咱们先说说益处吧。学一门新语言的好处取决于你在学习新语言的过程中可以与之互动的新朋友。如果使这个优势最大化是你唯一的目标,那么普通话会是最佳的选择:这是占世界人口14%的人民的母语,而且他们多数人不讲英语,所以这是一种双赢。
Another language is Spanish, the native language of 5.8% of the world’s population, followed by English, Hindi, and Arabic.
另一种语言就是西班牙语,这是占世界人口5.8%的人民的母语,然后是英语、印地语和阿拉伯语
You might also consider how influential a given language is likely to be in the future, based on an area’s anticipated economic growth. Mandarin retains an advantage here, given that China is important economically. Spanish has the advantage of being spoken in a larger number of countries, although the total GDP of these countries is less than half that of China alone (roughly $11 trillion in US dollars). On the benefit side, I think we’re down to Mandarin and Spanish.
基于一个地区预期的经济增长,你可能也会考虑特定的语言可能会对你的未来产生多大的影响。鉴于中国在经济上的重要性,在这一方面,普通话依然有优势。西班牙语的优势是更多国家的人讲这门语言,虽然这些国家的国内生产总值合起来还不到中国国内生产总值的一半(约11万亿美元)。在优势这一方面,我认为我们只剩下普通话和西班牙语可以选择了。
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