New Zealand's plan to popularize Chinese courses and Chinese education has been realized in many countries.

With the development of China's comprehensive national strength, learning Chinese has become a major trend for foreign friends. New Zealand plans to promote Chinese courses. What other countries are there? Get to know me together.

A few days ago, Nikki Kaye, spokesperson for the education affairs of the National Party of New Zealand, put forward a draft personal bill, hoping to ensure that local primary and junior high school students have comprehensive ways and resources to learn a second language. The plan of the former Minister of Education of New Zealand is that the government will come forward to choose at least ten priority languages for schools and students to choose at least one to study.

In addition to Te Reo's official language and sign language, Kaye also listed other languages she wants to include-Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Hindi. To achieve this goal, Kaiye estimates that the government will invest 40 million New Zealand dollars (about 65.438+0.8 billion yuan) every year to provide language teachers, language experts and online training resources for schools and community training institutions. This proposal has sparked a national discussion in New Zealand, the theme of which is whether all primary and secondary schools in New Zealand should be required to offer second language courses.

In addition to English and Maori, in 20 16, 29% primary and junior high school students in New Zealand learned a second language. Among them, Chinese is the most popular language In a survey conducted by Asia New Zealand Foundation 20 17, more than half (53%) of the respondents thought that Chinese was the most worthwhile second language to learn. The main reason why Chinese is favored is that with the increasing trade, tourists and immigrants from China in New Zealand, learning Chinese will help to enhance New Zealand's economic development and cultural exchanges.

Nicky Kaye's proposal is nothing new. In recent years, there has been a "Chinese fever" around the world, which gives us reason to believe that "the whole world is speaking Chinese" is not just a lyric.

Britain: More than 5,200 primary and secondary schools offer Chinese courses.

From 2065438 to September 2006, the British government announced the official launch of the Chinese teaching project "MEP" to support Chinese teaching in middle schools in England. It is planned to invest 10 million pounds (about 88.92 million yuan) before the end of 2020 to train at least 5,000 young people who can communicate in Chinese.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has launched a free online Chinese course, starting with the most basic tones, with clear pronunciation by real people and vivid situational teaching. You can master all Chinese greetings in a short time without spending a penny.

From the government to the people, the UK promotes Chinese teaching in all directions, including issuing national decrees, setting up full-time posts in the Ministry of Education, regularly checking Chinese teaching courses every year, and training local Chinese teachers. More than 5,200 primary and secondary schools offer Chinese classes, and the number of people learning Chinese in Britain is planned to reach 400,000 by 2020.

Russia: Chinese will be included in the national unified examination in 2020.

Oksana LeSchet Nikova, director of the Russian Federation Institute of Educational Evaluation, also said recently that Chinese will be included in the Russian national unified examination system as a foreign language subject in 2020.

Schet Nikova said: "It is planned to bring Chinese into the national final examination system for the ninth grade in 20 18. Two years later, before 2020, Chinese will be included in the national unified examination system that 1 1 graduates need to pass. "

Russian national unified examination is a unified examination conducted in Russian secondary education institutions. At present, foreign languages are optional subjects for Russian middle school graduates, and now English, French, German and Spanish can be chosen.

According to the information of the Russian Federal Bureau of Education, Science and Supervision, up to now, Chinese has been taught in 123 national primary and secondary schools in 34 subjects in Russia. The total number of students learning Chinese is over 6.5438+0.7 million.

America: Chinese has become the second most commonly used foreign language in America.

According to a survey released by the Wall Street website on July 24/7, 20 17, Chinese is the second most commonly used foreign language among American residents.

According to the report of the American Commission on International Education, there are more than 500 member schools in the Chinese school system in the United States, and the total number of students in various Chinese schools has reached more than 200,000. According to Hanban statistics, by the end of 20 16, the United States had established10 Confucius Institutes and 50 1 Confucius Classrooms, making it the country with the largest number of Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms in the world.

According to the statistics of the American Foreign Language Education Committee, there are currently more than 4,000 primary and secondary schools in the United States offering Chinese courses. There are various forms of Chinese teaching in American primary and secondary schools, most of which are elective courses, college preparatory courses, transitional bilingual teaching (mainly in primary schools) and so on.