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In China, this is helped along by a shortage of native English-speaking teachers, who are hard to keep happy in rural areas for long stretches of time. An estimated 300 million Chinese ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½” roughly equivalent to the total US population ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½” read and write English but don’t get enough quality spoken practice. The likely consequence of all this? In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese.