English or Chinese
English, as a global language, is very imortant, especially for college students, who are considered as future "high-end" persons. By contrast, Chinese, our mother language which is definitely much more important, is ignored. This a worrying phenonmenon.
The main reason, surely, there must be seveal reasons, I think, is the temptation of businessmen. In order to gain maximum benifits, they, conbined with advertisers, exaggarate the importance of foreigen languages. Students and their parents are able to make a reasonable judge. All of these things result in that phenonmenon I mentioned at the beginning.
Besides, some other things like computer games, TV programs attract students' attention. Given everyone's energy is limited, so the time they spend in Chinese dropped seriously.
What will happen if it continues?
Suppose if we cannot express ourselves fruently in Chinese, What can we expect from the learning of English?
The trick to combat this is to inform students and parents the truth and let them make a right chose, according to the student's abilities.
Generally, what we should learn something which will return the equal rewards compared with the cost we paid, both money and spirit.