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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johnsemlak" data-source="post: 1865259" data-attributes="member: 7233">Completely agreeThat's interesting, but rememeber that 'Asia' is a broad term.  I don't know the stats, but I find it hard to believe that more than 3-4 Asian countries actually have wider broadband acess than the US, and China isn't one of them (at least per capita).Another important point to consider is what langauges are taught.  I don't know how widely Chinese is studied in Asia outside of China, but it is still a relatively rare langauge to be studied in the West.  As I remember in Korea it was quite rare; Japanese was far more common (and English much much more common).  I think the writing system is a big barrier for people to learn Chinese, as well.English is taught as the foreign langauge of first choice in nearly every country in the world (except English speaking ones obviously, and even there it's taught a lot to immigrants and foreign students).  There's a vast network of teaching schools, and high quality textbooks/materials are available everywhere.  This could change, but it would take time for the resources to teach Chinese to develop.Certainly, I wouldn't deny the possibity of Chinese to overtake English sometime in the future.  But the situation as it is now shows that's a long way off, and I"m not sure if ti's really moving in that direction.</blockquote>