Learning Chinese on rise in US
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Julie Jin
- Mar 15, 2019
- 3 min
'There's real hunger' for Chinese, US cities to engage
Forty years on, bilateral sister city relationship has grown and flourished, now the two countries enjoy 277 pairs of sister relationship at
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Julie Jin
- Feb 14, 2019
- 3 min
Lantern Festival
Emperor Ming of Han was a big advocate of Buddhism. Hearing of the custom that monks would light lanterns to worship the Buddha on the 15th
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Julie Jin
- Jan 11, 2019
- 1 min
Kenya to start teaching Chinese in elementary schools in effort to boost relations with China
Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school students from Grade 4 and onwards. The country’s Mandarin syllabus will be rolled out in 2020 and has been designed by Kenya’s curriculum development institute. The language courses are intended to improve job competitiveness and establish a better trade relationship with China. “The place of China in the world economy has also grown to be so strong that Kenya stands to benefit if its citizens can understand Mandarin,” sa
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Julie Jin
- Dec 18, 2018
- 3 min
Turkish students eager to learn Chinese for better career opportunities
We see that there are not too many Chinese-speaking people in Turkey," said Koray Saglar, a sophomore, as he was putting down his cours
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Julie Jin
- Nov 23, 2018
- 2 min
Lebanese show off Chinese song skills
"I have always wanted to learn Chinese, which is a very important language," 18-year-old Martine Mardini says.
"I have always
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Julie Jin
- Nov 9, 2018
- 6 min
What is the best age to learn a language?
It’s a busy autumn morning at the Spanish Nursery, a bilingual nursery school in north London. Parents help their toddlers out of cycling he
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Julie Jin
- Nov 2, 2018
- 6 min
Chinese cartoons for kids
Chinese cartoons for kids is featuring 15 Chinese Cartoons for children! Stories are wonderful for target language teaching and learning. A good and simple story contains repeated words, expressions, and a fun storyline to keep the attention of children. By using cartoons in small parts to deliver a lesson can be a very effective way to reinforce Chinese language learning and see some cultural elements at times. You can preview each of the Chinese cartoons on YouTube. Big
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straits times
- Oct 23, 2018
- 1 min
Anwar Ibrahim calls for Malay children to learn Chinese
Anwar Ibrahim has called on Malay children to master the Chinese language, as it was an important regional “economic language”.
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Julie Jin
- Oct 12, 2018
- 6 min
In Pakistan, Learning Chinese Is Cool — And Seen As A Path To Prosperity
Saleem Abbas is the kind of student who sits in the front row. He's the first to try to answer a question. He eagerly repeats the Mandarin expressions that his teacher throws at the class: "Is this your family or not?" he repeats after the teacher. Then: "I have a mother." These lessons mean a lot to Abbas, a 17-year-old from a village deep in the Pakistani Himalayas. His father is a retired soldier, and his pension isn't enough to go around. Abbas, one of five siblings, live
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Julie Jin
- Oct 8, 2018
- 3 min
Biz owners urged: Invest in learning Chinese language
On the heels of preparing for the third Strategic Leadership and Management Program (SLAMP 3) in Cebu on September 28, To said businesses in
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Julie Jin
- Oct 2, 2018
- 4 min
Learning Chinese increasingly popular in U.S.
China has almost one-fifth of the world's population, so it's important to communicate with the Chinese people on an intimate level,
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Julie Jin
- Aug 13, 2018
- 2 min
Pilot: Some Finnish first graders get chance to learn Chinese
As Finnish schoolkids increasingly start learning foreign languages earlier, a handful of Helsinki youngters have been given the chance to l
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Julie Jin
- Aug 2, 2018
- 1 min
UAE to run Chinese language classes in 100 schools next year
The Ministry of Education of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced recently that it will begin Chinese classes in 100 schools next year, as well as rolling out further measures to encourage students to learn the language. Chuang Haiou, founder of the Dubai Chinese Language Institute, told reporters from Gulf News that there were 100 UAE students learning Mandarin during the first half of 2018, compared to 60 students in 2017. As for the phenomenon that Mandarin is fast gai
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Li Yan
- Jul 31, 2018
- 2 min
UK parents keen for children to learn Chinese
Skill likely to prove increasingly valuable in the future. Parents in the United Kingdom are increasingly showing an interest in their children learning Chinese at school, ahead of other more common language options. According to a survey of 2,200 parents carried out by eco-friendly building company Modular Classrooms, 30 percent said they would like their children to learn to speak Chinese, “perhaps thanks to the growing economic power of the East”. The survey also found tha
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Julie Jin
- Jul 27, 2018
- 1 min
Old, new customs to celebrate China's Spring Festival
The Spring Festival, better known as Chinese Lunar New Year among foreigners, is the most important festival in China and has in recent year
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Julie Jin
- Jul 22, 2018
- 1 min
More than a quarter of Scottish parents prefer children to learn Chinese over other languages
Results of a new report show that 27 per cent of parents in Scotland are in favour of opting for the Chinese language for future prospects. Scottish parents would prefer their children to learn Chinese over Spanish, French or German. Results of a new report show that 27 per cent of mums, dads and guardians in Scotland are in favour of opting for the Chinese language for future prospects. The survey was conducted by Modular Classrooms, who were keen to find out what language i
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Julie Jin
- Jul 10, 2018
- 2 min
Why do so many people try to learn Chinese?
When one sets out to learn a language, different considerations run through one’s head, and for just about all of those considerations, China ticks a box: How many people in the world speak this language? Mandarin Chinese is spoken by more people in the world than any other language, so in terms of the sheer number of people, Mandarin is an obvious choice. How important is the deeper understanding of the particular country or region that language proficiency will bolster? In
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Julie Jin
- Jun 29, 2018
- 2 min
ABC kids’ Mandarin learning: Patience and persistence matter greatly
A family, particularly the parents, needs patience and persistence with their America-born Chinese (ABC) kids in overcoming linguistic and cultural hurdles when learning Mandarin, Ya-Ning Hsu, a professor, researcher and scholar at Teachers College Columbia University, told a seminar this weekend at Columbia University. For ABC, Mandarin learning is a long and enduring mission, in which anxiety plays a negative role and rushing to the goal can produce nothing good, said Hsu.
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