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40m foreigners learning Chinese

By Xin Dingding | China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-13 07:45

The Chinese language is getting increasingly popular worldwide, with as many as 40 million people now learning it as a second language, a senior education official said.

"The number of people learning Chinese now is quite beyond our expectations," Xu Lin, director of the Chinese Language Council International, told a press conference yesterday.

According to earlier reports, only about 25 million people were learning the language in 2004.

40m foreigners learning Chinese

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