BBC Trending: The vagaries of learning English

Tse Yin Lee joins us from BBC Monitoring to discuss the vagaries of learning English when you’re 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 BBC Trending’s 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)