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Pupils love Mandarin Chinese

Margaret Clark is a Scottish primary school teacher who visited Beijing last summer with a group of Scots pupils who have been learning Mandarin.

She said:” Without a doubt we should all be learning Mandarin. China will be the superpower of the future.”

At present, she has been teaching all the children in he school numbers and introductions in Chinese.” “They love it. The school pupils with whom I went to China are studying for diplomas in Chinese,” she said.

I think the Hanban and Confucius Institutes will have a huge input into language education throughout the world.

Margaret’s niece, Olivia, 25, works for the BBC in Glasso, Scotland. Olivia visited her parents in Beijing last July and enjoyed the city’s nightlife.

She said: ”Visiting China was amazing and I can see why westerners come to live and find work in China.

But for Olivia, learning Mandarin would be “a last resort”. Working in the Western world in where she prefers to be, so it would only be in times of desperate measures or unbelievable opportunities job wise”, that she would consider coming to China.

Only if the job required it would learn Mandarin. Not to be an ignorant Westerner, but the vast majority of the world if familiar with the English language,“ Olivia said.

Because of that I don’t feel, at this time in life anyway, that I need to learn a new language to succeed.”