the translation services being offered in both cantonese chinese, and spanish, and i want to thank the chinese progressive association for helping with those services. i will say it in spanish. [speaking spanish] i know that four chinese- speaking members of the audience, the service has also been presented. let me just say just a little bit about why we are here. i know that just for the record, we have been joined by supervisor mar who has been a leader on these issues for quite some time, and i know we will be hearing from him shortly. my hope is that this hearing is the beginning of several efforts on the part of the city to address the very important issue of wage theft in the city and county of san francisco. it is a crisis, which is why we noted the hearing the way that we did. it is an outrage for many reasons, but it is a form of theft because you're taking something that belongs to a worker. you are taking that wage away from them. unfortunately, it is something that affects our lowest wage workers often times. wage theft frauds that workers and their family and the ability t

barrier to or protecting cantonese there but i mean one hundred years from now we may be talking having the same program a different set of characters obviously but how chinese mandarin chinese is invaded the world and how it's either promoted its language or polluted other language we could see people like ourselves you know speaking a pigeon chinese. well i'm not too sure about that some and i think there's no doubt that mandarin is increasing in importance in the world and more and more people across the world are getting interested in learning it as a foreign language but it's not going to displace english really i can't see that happening for at least another sort of a hundred years or more and i doubt it is going to happen i think that the world of languages is being rebalanced at the moment that's for sure and i think the manner you see there are more important things are actually going on in the world and english is implicated in the eye for example in china and most primary school children are learning english now from really quite a young age in the big cities it's as soon as they go into primary school now right across the world this is happening