Introduction- Blog Overview

English has enjoyed its status of being the global dominant language for many years and even till today. However, due to the emergence of China’s economy and world’s status in the past decades, Mandarin, the official language of China and Taiwan, is perceived as the future’s global dominant language, instead of English.

This blog site explores the possible shifting of dominant global language- from English to Mandarin, giving a general overview of the usage of the two languages in today’s world and in the past, as well as evaluating their current status with regards of the country’s political, economic and military power. The blog aims to address some of the key issues: 1. defining the criteria it takes for a language to reach the global status, to become globally dominant 2. Does Mandarin have the potential to take over English as the world’s language?

Finally, the blog proposed a hypothesis of a “bilingual world”, predicting that both English and Mandarin will act as the global dominant language hand in hand in the future.