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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. The phenomenon and background of global “Chinese upsurge” On Feb.25, Yuan Guiren, the vice minister of education department emphasized in the 2005 year language conference that the phenomenon paying much attention to study and use foreign language but less attention to study and use native language should be corrected. On Feb.21, the International Mother Tongue Day, we interviewed correlative people in charge from Country Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language Leading Group, abroad reporter from each country, as well as the linguistics experts to ask for explanation based on the following questions: What position is Chinese occupying in the world languages at present? How about the situation of other nation studying Chinese? What trouble will be shown in spreading Chinese? Why do we love Chinese? Argentina Nicolas: It is a challenge to learn a language completely different with one’s mother tongue. Spain Kairo: I always think Chinese men are handsome. I will study Chinese hard in order to work in European Union in the Beijing office after graduation. Zhou An: I like Chinese philosophy, Kong Zi, Lao Zi. But Zhuang Zi is my favorite. Lin Xiaozhen: After graduation, my father pushes me to learn and master Chinese because of the rapid development of Chinese economy. Konkocebo: I have loved Chinese due to Jackie Li’s play show since I saw his film in senior middle school and till now I have studied Chinese for 6 years The reality In hypothesized world State Department: “The Website in Chinese Version has to be set up in USA” Many domestic scholars call for “ Protecting Chinese” because in the contemporary society, English nearly monopolizes all the media. However, it is important that Chinese is lasting upgrading in the worldwide with the rapid development of Chinese economy and its international position. As incomplete statistic that there are over hundred ones among international groups, international companies, international media and well-known colleges have their own Chinese website and pages. The officers in the State Department said:” The rush of learning Chinese culture has been spreaded out among American with the cooperation and communication between China and America in the recent years. USA has to set up Chinese version web page as Chinese key official website has to build English version website.” Christ from Finland international group posted Chinese greeting card Christ greeting center from Finland opened Chinese web page and during 2004 Christmas period, many Chinese children received Christmas cards from there. American most powerful financial news 《Harl Street Daily》, 《Financial Time》 from England and American 《State Geography》opens their Chinese web pages. The administrator for 《Harl Street Daily》English website said that Chinese culture was bringing more and more impact on the whole world so no one mainstream news will ignore the impact of Chinese culture. It is said that about two-third multinational companies which is approved the first 500 powerful companies in the world by 《Wealth》 founded sub ranch in China and built their Chinese websites. The population of learning Chinese in Europe and America increases 40 per cent yearly It is statistic that in 2003, the population of learning Chinese in the world is more than 30 million. The correlative people in charge from Country Teaching Chinese office said that “Chinese Upsurge” had been common in the world language communication system. Recently, the population of learning Chinese increases rapidly and even in Europe and America the population increases 40 per cent yearly Korea: The most population of people studying abroad in China in the world “ The situation that English is the foreign language Korean people learned most would be instead of Chinese” 《Financial Daily》reporter Cao Shigong stationed in Han city said. In China, the population of foreign students from Korea is the most among the foreign students from other nations. Mastering Chinese is the key to find a job. 《Financial Time》reporter Ma Yu’an stationed in Tokyo stated that the population of learning Chinese in college had overpassed those learning French and Germany. It is following English and Korean language. In Japan, there are some Chinese training classes but sometimes some people can not enroll it because of too much people register to learn Chinese. France: Chinese increases faster than English In France, there are many people learning Chinese. Ms. Huang from Chinese Embassy Education Office stationed in France said that France is the first HSK test site in Europe. Many Chinese learners from other European countries have to go to France to take part in HSK test. Noted from Lu Jianming, the president from world Chinese learning institute, that the developing rate of Chinese in France reaches 38 per cent but the rate of English, Japanese, Spanish is 2 percent to 4 percent. Great Britain: More and more are going to learn Chinese. Zhang Zhinian, a journalist of Economy Daily in London said that more and more people in Britain are going to learn Chinese.Most of the young businessman have learnt Chinese. Experts: The Chinese talents are in a great demand . Professor Zhang Weijia said that there are three main reasons for global Chinese rush . First,the demand of talented technists who can use Chinese as a foreign language grows with the China economy and international trade development increasing. Second, with the China’s economic and influence to the rest of the world grows,the Chinese culture is in popular. Third,with the influence to the world increasing,more and more people across the land are eager to know more about China. Facing “Chinese upsurge” without well preparation. Pro.Zhang Weijia stated that the speciality foreign students in China were studying happened change recently, from the simple language subject to such subjects as science and technology, economy, management and law. For instance, among the over 3300 foreign students in Peking University, there are nearly half the 3300 students majoring in other subjects besides Chinese language. Chinese is “polluted” by China-English net words. Pro.Zhang introduces that though the whole world are pushing to learn Chinese, there are still few people polluting Chinese on some certain occasion, for example, expression with complex Chinese-English, net special words, changing Chinese figure and so on. Our society and media should pay much attention to this case but needn’t much worry about it. Pro.Zhang said that it is normal to confuse Chinese and English. Any open country would meet such case in language lives. Even developed America could not avoid its happen but it didn’t influence the development of American English. Our language policy and stipulation can solve part problems. The “Chinese upsurge” in overseas will encourage people to have confidence in our native language. UN DOCUMENTS CHINESE VERSION : SIMPLIFIED CHINESE ONLY This year marks the 50 years anniversary of releasing Simplify the Chinese Character and Popularise Mandarin by the State Council.Sources come that after 2008 the United Nations chinese version document is only in simplified chinese marks the years effort of popularising mandarin. On March 22th,the ministry of education organizes a seminar of simplified Chinese and mandarin popularity and many national famous languages experts presented,.Mr.Zhou Youguang, over one hundred years old,also gave his presentation on the seminar. SIMPLIFIED CHINESE FOR UN CHINESE VERSION ONLY AFTER 2008 According to Chen Zhangtai, from State Chinese Language Committee ,said that the United Nations will recognize simplified Chinese as the official Chinese only after 2008. The latest released World Languages Report 2005 shows that Chinese language ranked top four and rose to the second place in 2005 but still behind English Language while ahead Germeny. It shows that Chinese language impacts on the world increasing. Simplify the Chinese Character has been popularised in Singapore.Mr.Zhou Youguang said that China influences to the world is increasingly and the people across the world are eager to learn Chinese,especially simplified Chinese. When simplified Chinese becomes the only standard Chinese ,people from Hongkong will find out that the simplified Chinese is as useful as the traditional one sooner or later. Fu Yonghe,also from State Chinese Language Committee, said that Hongkong special administrative region government will decide whether to popularise simplified Chinese or not according to real situation the SAR itself. Need More Volunteers for Teaching Chinese Overseas Professor Lu Jianming from Peking University,member of State Chinese Language Committee, Chief of China-International Chinese Language Teaching and Research Institute, said that China had made a plan to establish Confucius Institute across the world for populating Chinese language internationally. So far, 40 Confucius Institutes have been established over the world. Last year, around 500 volunteers Chinese teachers have been dispatched to other countries. The Office of Chinese Language Council International has set a “Chinese Program”for international Chinese language popularities In the past, there was no Chinese language class in the United State schools, but now the Chinese language has been listed as IP curriculums for entering universities in 2007. Research shows that 2347 high schools in the United States will have Chinese language class that is much more the expected number 300 according the University Committee of United States. Mandarin Popularity, Dialects In Danger With the popularity of mandarin, some Chinese regional dialects are on the edge of disappearing and some appeal of protect dialects appears. Sir.Zhour Youguang explains that with the fast development of cities in China, immigrants’ population grows fast while local people population grows slowly. In such a city society, the general language for people from different place and background communication is mandarin. This is the trend, not only in China but also around the world. Chen Zhangtai thought that the popularity of mandarin is to provide another language tool for people better communication. At the same time, Chinese government has set up a special program for proving Chinese regional dialects. As a matter of fact, the Chinese government holds that traditional culture and language should be protected and carried from generation to generation. China is big country with a long history. Chinese language holds a very long history but it is not always divided into different languages and its figure is also the fixed old type. Its figure results in it is the unique language in the world. |
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