Why Chinese?
- China is the most populous country in the world with over 1.4 billion people.
- Approximately one billion people speak Mandarin Chinese. It is the #1 spoken
language in the world. One out of five people in the world speak Mandarin.
Mandarin is spoken in China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei,
Singapore, The Philippines, and Mongolia.
- China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, over 5,000 years old!
- China has the second largest economy in the world.
- China is Oklahoma's fifth largest trading partner.
- Knowing Chinese will enable students to compete effectively in the global
economy of the future.
- Learning a second language develops critical and creative thinking skills.
- Learning a second language increases the propensity to learn other languages.
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