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麻豆社 Trending: The vagaries of learning English

Why did hundreds of thousands of Chinese take to social media after the chief exec of Chinese telecoms giant company Xiaomi addressed a conference in India, in English

Tse Yin Lee joins us from 麻豆社 Monitoring to discuss the vagaries of learning English when you鈥檙e Chinese. Last week hundreds of thousands of Chinese took to social media to comment on the attempts of chief exec of Chinese telecoms giant company Xiaomi, to address a conference in English. Some comments were positive others thought he had embarrassed the Chinese. We discuss whether this shame is a sign of the uncomfortable process of globalisation, and 麻豆社 Trending鈥檚 old friend Lawrence Lo gives us lesson on how Chinese can excel in Business English.

Photo: Xiaomi Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lei Jun News Conference (Credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images)

10 minutes

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Mon 4 May 2015 16:20GMT

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  • Mon 4 May 2015 16:20GMT