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Russia's Putin says his young family members speak fluent Mandarin Chinese
(www.channelnewsasia.com)
Russia's Putin as opposed to...? Just funny phrasing
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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I guess it's important to distinguish him from Quebec's poutine.
I used to ask my parents if we could stop by whatever poutine serving restaurant for a Vladimir when one was nearby. It took like 8 times for them to understand what I was asking for.
Media does that with "China's Xi" too
Amid a growing partnership between China and Russia, Mandarin has been growing in popularity across Russia as a foreign language of choice, a trend Putin said was due to developing contacts across economics, politics and society.
Putin, who speaks fluent German but has also taken lessons to improve his English, said that pupils should not forget the importance of English.
Russian, English, Tatar, German and Chechen are the most widely spoken languages in Russia, according to the 2022 census. While Mandarin is spoken far less, it has been growing swiftly in popularity in recent years as a foreign language.
English is the world's most spoken language with about 1.5 billion speakers, followed by Mandarin Chinese with about 1.1 billion speakers, and then Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian and Urdu, according to Ethnologue, a language research centre.
Huh sombody downvoted this comment when it was removed, i must have a fan
Maybe, but also deletions don’t always propagate immediately—or ever—to other instances.
Oh in that case it was chance it was actually deserved since i was pretty confused at first and the post was bad.
Smartest thing I've heard attributed to him in a hot minute.