漢語成全球第二熱門商務語言

Mandarin, China’s official tongue, is also the top language worldwide for business other than English。

Mandarin, spoken by 845 million people, scored highest in a ranking of languages, excluding English, based on business usefulness. The ranking scored languages according to the number of speakers, number of countries where the language is official, along with those nations’ populations, financial power, educational and literacy rates, and related measures。

French, spoken by 68 million people worldwide and the official language of 27 countries, was ranked second。

Mandarin is unlikely to supplant English soon as the primary language of business, said Leigh Hafrey, a senior lecturer in communications and ethics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management。

“In much the same way that the dollar remains the preferred currency, English will remain the preferred language for the foreseeable future,” Hafrey said in a telephone interview。

Mandarin speakers can gain an advantage in doing business in China, he said。據彭博社31日報道，除了英語，中國官方語言漢語也是全球商務使用最爲廣泛的語言。

講漢語的人有8.45億。從商務實用性來看，除英語外，漢語排名最靠前。此次語言評比是根據某種語言的使用人數，把它作爲官方語國家的數量、以及這些國家的人口、財力、教育與識字率等相關標準完成的。

法語排名在漢語之後，全球有6800萬人講法語，有27個國家把法語作爲其官方語言。

美國麻省理工學院斯隆管理學院溝通與倫理高級講師利•哈佛雷認爲，在短時期內，漢語不太可能取代英文成爲最主要的商務語言。

哈佛雷在接受電話採訪時指出：“正如美元依然是優先通貨一樣，在可預見的未來，英語依然會是優選語言。”

他說，在中國做生意，會講漢語將無往不利。