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Benta:
You're all still missing the "mechatronics" part. Just sayin'. Chinese won't bring anything there.

coppice:

--- Quote from: blueskull on October 22, 2018, 05:42:44 pm ---As I've said before, most if not all young, formally higher educated Chinese people can understand English, all you need is to be able to understand Chinglish in the most unfortunate cases. If you can read Alibaba product descriptions, you are good to go.

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Only a small percentage of people in China with a university level education understand English well enough to hold a simple conversation. Many of them feel pretty bad about this, as they all studied English from kindergarten to their last year at university. They are a lot better at answering an e-mail, because they can take their time with written communication. Also, a lot more of their education focussed on written, rather than verbal, English.

Life in Shenzhen or Shanghai can be very limiting if you can neither read Chinese or speak Mandarin. You can survive, but you can survive in most places if you have some money.
0xdeadbeef:

--- Quote from: coppice on October 22, 2018, 01:48:44 pm ---Any German with a decent education understands English, so speaking German is only a substantial benefit if you want to live there.

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True. One foreign language is mandatory in Germany and that's usually English (even though mine was Latin ;) ). Still, it's really surprising how many English speaking people live here (Rhine-Main area) who expect to get a meaningful answer if they ask an elderly saleslady in a bakery if a certain slice contains yeast. It's even more surprising that they usually actually get a proper answer...
Benta:

--- Quote from: blueskull on October 22, 2018, 06:11:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: Benta on October 22, 2018, 05:53:42 pm ---You're all still missing the "mechatronics" part. Just sayin'. Chinese won't bring anything there.

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Mechatronics = machinery + electronics.


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Wrong.

Mechatronics = mechanics + electrics/electronics.

In Europe, this is 80% automotive, but yes, it also involves industrial machinery.
But when talking about mechanics and machinery, the largest technical literature available in the world is in German and English. I'm sure there's a lot of Mandarin literature about how to copy this, but that's a different story.

The main automotive subcontractors (Bosch, Conti, Siemens etc.) sit in Germany.
bob225:
English, Chinese, German, As a native English speaker Scottish, Welsh, and Irish translations come in handy - A few phrases of Indian help too

In a local school 26 or so languages are spoken but that is SouthEast England for you
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