Those damn commies can't force me to speak Mandarin if I'm too stupid to learn it.

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Yeah probably. Apparently china uses Esperanto anyway so maybe that's the middle ground.

We'll be economically incentivised to learn mandarin as china continues to play a stronger role in international trade/diplomacy tbh, those that study the language may get a leg up but the rest of us will absorb it to some degree or another as it absorbs us.

death to america, death to english et al

No, all languages are equally difficult to learn for a native speaker growing up immersed in one. All natural languages are equally complex, but in different ways. English is most complex phonologically, meaning it has a large group out sounds and many ways they can fit together. It's simple morphologically, meaning words don't change very much in different situations. Think about the way Spanish verbs are different depending on the person/group/thing doing the action; English verbs barely change. Similar situation for nouns; Spanish nouns follow a gender system that affects other words near them, which English does not. Comparatively, Chinese has extremely simple grammar - there's no gender, number, tense, or conjugation. But it has a complex tone system where the exact pronunciation of a word can completely change its meaning. You can look at any language and see what's simple and what's complex.

The difficulty of learning a language later in life is determined entirely by how similar it is to one's own language. So European languages are relatively easy to learn for speakers of other European languages (generally) and Chinese languages are relatively easy to learn for speakers of other Chinese languages (generally). For an English speaker (for example) the easiest languages to learn are Spanish and Norwegian/Danish/Swedish; they have simpler phonology than English and similar vocabulary and grammar. The most difficult are Japanese and some Native American languages, which are extremely grammatically different from English.

Not entirely, there's plenty of English and Spanish used by Filipinos and English used by Indians

Spain was the most fascistic and genocidal country that this Earth has seen! Fuck Spanish! I say this as someone who is from a Spanish-speaking country, but who hates Spain because they genocided all the native population from my country and enslaved my ancestors. Death to Spain!!!

Every language is associated with a region. What language do you recommend?

You are right that we could. But we won't. Learning a language is difficult, it is very difficult and takes years and years of practice and study. Additionally, you need to get the large majority of the world to support this universal language.

Most people do not care to learn a new language. Most people who learned a second language already learned English. Realistically, they are not going to want to put that effort to waste.

I get your points, but do you think what you are suggesting is realistic? Do you think it could be done in a way that does not benefit the current countries who are in power? Do you think countries will even be able to agree on a new language?

We could all just “realistically” make a new language and decide to use it.

you should read more on the history of linguistics cause you just sound silly now. languages developed over thousands of years, not because someone sat down and made it happen in a year.

The language predates the genocide, I do not see the problem with this language.