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I recently spent 10 months in Shanghai, China teaching English to university students there. While I do believe it's important to learn Mandarin, almost all of the educated people in China study English and many are fluent in the language. I think it's important to learn about other cultures and languages, but I don't think it's too realistic to think that a lot of Americans will become fluent in Mandarin. The Chinese people want to communicate with foreigners and English is the main language in which they communicate with us.

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