[PRCo] Re: Answer to Fred III's post on bilingual drivers

[robert simpson]

Off tipic post...
   
  Hi Fred;
   
  Just curious - why Spanish and not Mandarin or English?
   
  Robert Simpson
  from Krazy Kalifornia
  ... where English is occasionally heard
Herb Brannon <hrbran at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  If I were in the same position today as in 1960 when deciding which language to take I might still select Spanish. However, Mandarin would come in as a close second. This, inasmuch as the US has seen fit (I do not agree with this governmental decision) to cozy up to China and bring them into our economic system. I am quite sure we will have good reason to use Mandarin at some point in the not too distant future. 
robert simpson wrote: 
English is the the official language of more countries than any other language - estimated at 480 million. Spanish is second with 332 million. Mandarin, however, is ranked number one with 1,120 million but is spoken in fewer countries! see: http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html

English is the required and official language for aviation.



Herb Brannon