Chinese the Language for 21 Century
Newly released TIME said the English was the leading popular language in the 20 century while in the 21 century Chinese takes up the advantageous place. Nowadays many people around the world are engaged in the rush of learning Chinese.
England linguist David Kardowar indicated in his newly published report that with the enhancement of Chinese economy, reducing friction and misunderstanding in business communication becomes a new strategy advantage. Therefore, please avail yourself of learning Chinese. Chinese has been a compulsory language in Asia, Europe and U.S.A. More and more people believe that mastering Chinese is the important skill between their own future and Chinese development.
Taking Korea as example, China is her largest trade partner at present. The number of Korean people studying Chinese has increased 66％ in the past 5 years and now there are 160 thousand middle school students and college students studying Chinese. The number of students from Korea took up 40 percent among the 110 thousand eight hundred foreign students in China. And this trend is being upgraded continuously.
In Japan, many people prefer learning Chinese to learning other foreign language except English. The Japanese middle schools where the Chinese course is opened had been increasing more than 3 times from 1993 to 2003. More and more students outside Asia are learning Chinese. The population from England, Welsh and the Northern Ireland who attended the advanced Chinese level test had increased 57 percent from 2000 to 2004. In America, college students studying abroad in China are more and more.
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