Higher IQ promoted
Chinese characters are pictographic and ideographic in design. People learning Mandarin will have their IQ improved. It is testified by results of German researchers, who encourage their children to learn Mandarin to improve IQ.
Another report claim Chinese, Korean and Japanese people have very high IQ on average. It is partly attributed to the fact they have Chinese characters in the languages. Mandarin is also a very precise language. With only 3,500 core characters, Mandarin constitutes over 1,000,000 words with meanings closely associated with basic characters.
Worldwide fervor
Despite pros and cons, more and more people are learning Mandarin all over the globe. In the UK, university students are choosing a Chinese language courses which they believe beneficial to future careers. Same stories go around the world from the US to Thailand and Belgium.
UK has 25 universities offering Chinese courses. More than 400 high schools and elementary schools have set up Chinese language courses in the country.
In the US, an annual conference on Chinese language education has been held in Chicago in recent years. More than 300 Chinese language educators from around the country attend the meeting.
In Thailand, officials and educators from China and Thailand gathered in Bangkok to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Language Schools Association in Thailand.
In Belgium, a Chinese speaking contest entitled "China and I " was held in Brussels last weekend. Twenty finalists battled it out, displaying their eloquence and understanding of the language. The oldest participant was 70 years old, and the youngest only eight.
Editor: Hu Zhicheng
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