The Chinese Language: Where to Study?
However the Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China not unreasonably counts that the number will exceed them of 100 million persons by 2010.
Worldwide Institutes Konfutsija which make a network of the cultural-educational Chinese centers are opened. In 54 countries of the world there are such institutes. In them special programs for training of foreign students are offered the Chinese language. The purpose of Institutes Konfutsija is development of friendly relations with the different countries by means of dissemination of culture and language of China.
It is scale enough program which can be compared only to distribution to the world of English language. For today about 24 thousand Americans masters the Chinese language while the quantity of the Chineses studying English language, exceeds 200 million persons. And still the boom of the Chinese language in America proceeds, and Americans even any more do not have teachers. And if native speakers of English are 340 million persons the Chinese language is native for, more than, 1 billion person. And to teach the Chinese language to foreigners is profitable enough business for the Chinese National Republic. And language studying by foreign businessmen opens prospects for career growth and cooperation with campaigns in the country where the economy develops faster, than somewhere else. The same wave has come to Russia and the CIS countries.
There is a weight of the reasons to study the Chinese language: development of private business and economy in China, developing commercial and industrial relations, cheap and perspective education in the Peoples Republic of China, rich culture and country history, huge prevalence of language in the world.
For yourselves you can choose any way of studying of the Chinese language (courses, tutors, textbooks, web sites, and also training in China), but before you should be defined for the purpose of its studying.
