norrisman: Nigerians are very myopic. Why would the Chinese need to learn a Nigerian language. Is any Nigerian language a recognised international language of communications. Why do the Dutch and Scandinavians speak almost flawless English whilt most people in the UK only speak english? Because english is a recognised international language. Are the Dutch and Scandinavians better for it, I think yes. Thank goodness they are not mumu like the majority on this thread and say they wont learni english because the English arent learning dutch.

China is becoming a superpower and it is forward planning. The only shame is that this initiative will only exist on paper and we will never see a teacher teach mandarin in a Lagos classroom.

Freiburger:
My question is, does allowing foreign cultures into one's own system relent a country from attaining a good economic and influencial statut?

acidtalk: I used to think Jonathan was Insane but I got to realize Fashola has totally gone MAD.

This idio*ts never get to think before passing laws and acting.

What have they done to improve our culture by making our local dialect a MUST in the school curriculum.

This fools are the reason why today's chiddren now feel its a shame to speak their language.

If you say it is to improve business ties between Nigeria and China, is it primary and secondary school children that travel down to china for business trade and bring in loads of substandard goods to flood the Nigerian market which inturn as killed our local Industry and production.

Jonathan and Fashola na who dey CRAZE pass? 100marks + $50,800

Brazil can overtake France and become world's 5th largest economy
The Brazilian economy became the 6th largest in the world last year, surpassing the U.K., and is likely to reach 5th in 2012, overtaking France. The forecast by the U.K.'s EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) consultants show that Brazil is rising quickly in the rank of largest economies.

"Such development would seem unlikely five years ago, but they reflect how the wealthiest economies were affected by the crisis and how the Brazilian economy has been expanding, boosted by the export of commodities," says EIU senior economist Robert Wood.

"The changes also reflect a stronger Brazilian real." Although the Brazilian expansion in 2011 was considered weak, 2.7%, it was higher that the U.K.'s, 0.8%. Such expansion made Brazil's GDP, measured in dollars, surpass the U.K.'s by a small margin.

The same is likely to occur regarding the French economy in 2012. The EIU forecasts that Brazil will grow 3.3%, while France's economy will be stagnant. Exchange rates will help Brazil surpass France.

EIU forecasts that the Brazilian real will be stable compared to the dollar throughout 2012, while the euro will devalue. With the changes, the Brazilian economy will only have a lower GDP than the U.S., China, Japan and Germany.

TerryCarr: i don't see them replacing there language with English like the Africans do. as long as there in your nation they should learn the local language/s your not going to get far with English in Brazil

hornipipe: With the ever rising mass failure in wassce ENGLISH LANGUAGE?
They wanna introduce another language instead of finding solutions to the constant poor performance of students in English language exams
Fucktards

D sage:

Yes, in the sense that importation of culture has a great influence in both economy and social life of the people of that particular society it imported to. Borrow cultures lead to;

* Change in principle and ideology
* change in fundamental vocational skills on which a society was built.

NOTE: The easiest way of introduce a culture is through language.

balium: to those accusing fashola of not promoting cultural heritage, abeg which govenor restructured the eyo festival? promoted the lagos carnival amidst many more. chinese mandarin is like the most popular language in the world owing to its vast majority speakers, much more popular than french, german combined so i see no evil in learning it. it improves the student IQ and learning capability [/b]which is definately what we need in nigeria today with the alarming number of dumb people walking around. you guys are just being paranoid. thumbs up to fashola

turl:
They are not required to learn our language but for the ones that do, kudos to them, it might be the difference between making or breaking a business deal. now turn the tables around and picture yourself competing for an investment from a chinese business man alongside an american, speak the lingo and you would have already given yourself the edge.
even Alan Sugar said the same here in the UK. we have to make these guys our friends now before its too late.

profola2be:


my brother,English no be my Papa language,it is an enforced language on me.
ÓMÒ YORUBA NI MI,MIO NI FÓWÒ OSI JUWE ILE BABA MI.
i communicate and pass across message very well with my local language than my Borrowed language.
why most Nigeria student fail is because we've not been teaching our students with their local language.
these foreigners excel because they teach their students with their local language,
E.g,UK,CHINA,JAPAN ETC.

shymexx: Why is everyone crying foul? Nigerians are not critical thinkers - this is a good development as the world moves into a bi-polar world... China is going to be the biggest economy in the next 20 years, and the Anglo-american domination is on its last lap... You need to thank them for planning ahead - as the world heads towards the east..

China and mandarin has come to stay - don't be surprised when everyone in Europe and America starts speaking mandarin in the next 30 years... I'm trying to learn the language as well... China is just getting its military power together before it kicks America's arse out of Asia - and it already owns US anyway..

Kudos to the forward thinkers!!

idowuswap: Only yorubaland great things always come well is bcuz of our education.so igbo & hausa make una self go school.bcuz igbo na 2 dey thief.hausa na 2 dey kill

shymexx: Why is everyone crying foul? Nigerians are not critical thinkers - this is a good development as the world moves into a bi-polar world... China is going to be the biggest economy in the next 20 years, and the Anglo-american domination is on its last lap... You need to thank them for planning ahead - as the world heads towards the east..

China and mandarin has come to stay - don't be surprised when everyone in Europe and America starts speaking mandarin in the next 30 years... I'm trying to learn the language as well... China is just getting its military power together before it kicks America's arse out of Asia - and it already owns US anyway..

Kudos to the forward thinkers!!

acidtalk: I used to think Jonathan was Insane but I got to realize Fashola has totally gone MAD.

This idio*ts never get to think before passing laws and acting.

What have they done to improve our culture by making our local dialect a MUST in the school curriculum.

This fools are the reason why today's chiddren now feel its a shame to speak their language.

If you say it is to improve business ties between Nigeria and China, is it primary and secondary school children that travel down to china for business trade and bring in loads of substandard goods to flood the Nigerian market which inturn as killed our local Industry and production.

Jonathan and Fashola na who dey CRAZE pass? 100marks + $50,800

jango77:

hello!!!

TerryCarr: not many Chinese speak English do you Africans really hate your languages this badly

samkoro: I hate my race! Africans are not man enough.

Why must we always be the one to be
Colonised
Enslaved
Subdued
Mocked
Snobbed
Defeated
Stupid
Foolish
Idiotic
Miopic
Inferior
Daft
Dull
Crazy
Mad
Exploited
Fowl brained
Monkey brained
Fashola brained

TerryCarr: how many nations borrow African culture(slave trading/colonial nations don't count ) because not many do