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		mdhen on May 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working... Due to not having an alphabet and being tonal I highly doubt Mandarin is ever going to be the lingua Franca. It's just too hard for non native speakers to learn.

jacquesm on May 27, 2019 [–]

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