Yiling
I’m glad to learn that the major lingua francas between Japanese expatriates and their Chinese colleagues are Mandarin and Japanese (Kubota, 2013). I’m kind of relieved to know that in a social context where people speak different languages (Mandarin and Japanese in this case), English has not taken the place and prevail as the dominant language for communication. The worldwide mania for learning English has been constantly drawing our attention.
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