Gambling In Macau

Introduction
Macau is a small city located on the southern coast of China. It was once colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and returned to China in 1999 (McColl 2014, 563). With its colorful colonial history and rapid development of the gambling industry over the last decade, Macau becomes one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Whereas the majority of the population are Chinese, the minority groups are numerous and easy-to-notice, including the Portuguese, English speaking expatriates and South Asian imported workers such as Thai, Filipino, Vietnamese, Nepalese, and Indonesia. In this small territory, the linguistic and cultural diversity seems highly visible. It is ordinary that different groups of people interacts

Most college entrance exams require knowledge of English. Moody (2008) stated that English is currently enjoying the status of de facto official language in Macau. It is also the lingua franca in the workplace. Since a great variety of people come to fill in the working positions in casinos and hotels, English gradually becomes a vital and necessary tool for communication between the local and foreign workers.
The functions of those languages in various

It has made English proficiency more of an asset as these companies look for employees with good English proficiency. If you look at the job advertisements in newspaper, the number of ads requiring a proficiency in Putonghua has been rising constantly although it never equals the number of ads with a requirement of English proficiency. More jobs also state that the employers look for people proficient in Cantonese but only a few jobs require a proficiency in Portuguese.

Conclusion
The paper has given an account of the sociolinguistic situation in Macau. Due to its distinctive historical background and recent economic development, Macau becomes a hotbed of language contact. It is remarkable that more than 10 language varieties can be found in such a tiny area, though Chinese, English and Portuguese are the dominant languages. By looking into how people adopt these languages in different domains, it can be attested that the co-existence of many languages and linguistic groups has turned Macau into a multi-lingual