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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读讲义 Why China is losing interest in English Learning the world’s lingua franca is no longer a priority for students or businessmen The Economist BEIJING Dec 12th 2024 | 501 words | ★★ ☆ ☆☆ IN PREPARATION FOR the summer Olympics in 2008, the authorities in Beijing, the host city and China’s capital, launched a campaign to teach English to residents likely to come in contact with foreign visitors. Police, transit workers and hotel staff were among those targeted. One aim was to have 80% of taxi drivers achieve a basic level of competency. Today, though, any foreigner visiting Beijing will notice that rather few people are able to speak English well. The 80% target proved a fantasy: most drivers still speak nothing but Chinese. Even the public-facing staff at the city’s main international airport struggle to communicate with foreigners. Immigration officers often resort to computer-translation systems. For much of the
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