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[Medic]

Have noticed the increase in numbers of the students studying Chinese at our university. Seems to be the trend everywhere. Lot of institutes in Beiging for foriegners wanting to learn Chineses too. Am wondering if Chinese will eventually become the foreign language to learn here rather than English.

On that note. Anyone in Pohang no of institutes that actually teach Chinese

[kangnamdragon]

[mithridates]

In the next ten years I could see English becoming the language to learn for culture and diplomacy (movies and so on) and Chinese the one to learn to make money. Or is it already that way? There's definately room for one more language in the education system, no reason to only learn our mother tongue and ignore the rest...

[mithridates]

http://www.cri.com.cn/

This is interesting, a site with news in 49 languages including Esperanto, interestingly enough. I now listen to my Chinese news here.

[mindmetoo]

With a billion+ consumers sitting just across the yellow sea (or one day a rail line via north korea) away, and all of them needing to equip a newly modern household, you can bet Chinese is going to become a major second language in Korea. I believe, too, Chinese is easier to learn for most Koreans (kind of like English people trying to learn german... many of the words for things are not so alien that they're impossible to remember).

English will be a major player for the next few decades, no doubt. Diplomacy, business, air travel, and the massive entertainment complex is all English. But then people made that argument way way back for CP/M vs DOS. "There's just too much CP/M hardware and software out there for DOS to have a hope."

Teaching Japanese is probably going to lose most to Chinese language institutes initially.

[Flex Bulkchest]

there was a really interesting article in the korea herald about this. it mentioned that Seould National announced that for the first time Chinese has replaced English as being the most popular major for liberal arts students.