A famous Chinese blogger called English a “trash skill”

The guy was bashed by a lot of people on social media.

Class mobility will stagnate even more if English was not studied at public curriculum.

I would say everyone need at least trying another language to gain a different perspective, it does work. And it has net benefit for the mass to against propaganda, slanted media reports and xenophobia etc,.

Moreover, It seems we lose the ability to do something without completely understand that when we grow up, learning languages helps us sort of regain that kind of skill.

When did English become compulsory teaching in China? I ask this because about 12 years ago at a previous job, we were interviewing, by phone, potential offshore developers by phone and of the dozen or so we interviewed, we always had to go through a translator. Apparently, none of the devs spoke a lick of English. Not sure if it was limited to verbal communication or included written/typed.

Does Hacker News share every "trash" tweet from American tweeters with 1 million followers? yawn