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| Title | Article: China Worries Too Few Foreigners Learning Chinese |
| Body | From http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE52B1UW20090312 China worries too few foreigners learning Chinese By Ben Blanchard March 12, 2009 BEIJING (Reuters) - There has been a big rise in the number of foreigners learning Chinese, but still too few are studying the language, officials said on Thursday, worried this may affect efforts to soften China's global image. China began setting up Confucius Institutes in 2004 to teach Chinese and they are now in 81 countries, but efforts to expand them are being hampered by too few teachers and poor teaching materials. Read the entire article at http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE52B1UW20090312 . |
| Source | Reuters |
| Inputdate | 2009-03-21 09:53:44 |
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| Publishdate | 2009-03-23 00:00:00 |
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