Knight Rider TV show, does KITT actually speak Chinese? Need translation help

[batguy]

It's been said that someone with zero training in Spanish and three years of studying Chinese can pick up more information out of a Spanish-language text than a Chinese text. That's how hard the language is.

Good Lord . . . what's the benefit of that language being so difficult? There must be some upside to it.

 

[dascoyne]

Chinese language is actually more grammatically logical. Sentence construction is easier than western languages and no verbs to conjugate, gender-specific pronouns or inconsistent pronunciation and spelling (record; house-houses, mouse-mice). It's easier to pick up Chinese as a written language than anything else.

My (Caucasian) college linguistics professor said that a universal spoken language (e.g. Esperanto) makes no sense. He said a universal written language would be easier to adopt and he proposed Chinese as the natural choice.