the Xinhua

Liverpool, England, June 12 (Xinhua) (Reporter Baixu) brown hair Kahn O’Driscoll and teachers chatting in Chinese, he just used a brush to complete the calligraphic works, “Early Spring.” The 10-year-old boy to learn Chinese Confucius Institute at the University of Liverpool has been a year and a half, every weekends. “Here a lot of things from China, I hope that one day they can go there to see,” he said.

O’Driscoll saw on TV a few years ago the Chinese are interested in programs on Chinese school French and Spanish classes are not Chinese so attracted him. “Perhaps because of Chinese and Western language differences, it seems more attractive,” said O’Driscoll’s mother. Under the influence of the child’s mother tongue is Italian mother can speak some Chinese.

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second year, eight students into the Chinese language classroom. Gradually, the old students to bring new students, growing number of lectures. At the same time, more and more local schools to seek cooperation with the Confucius Institute. 24 primary and 10 secondary schools involved in the project of the Confucius Institute in Liverpool. Confucius Institute teachers to teach not only language, as well as Tai Chi, Chinese kung fu, Beijing opera, paper cutting, calligraphy and dance.

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professional Anna Huoma Poles, last summer started to learn Chinese. British research project funded in April of this year, to one in Zhuhai, China, came back, she prefers to China. She said that China’s economy is growing rapidly and want to learn Chinese can be helpful for future work. Like Huoma a total of 112 college students of the Confucius Institute.

“we live in the world is shrinking,” said Michael Hoey, vice president of the University of Liverpool. He said that the courses on Chinese history and culture more than language lessons easy to accept, can help students better understand the distant lands.

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Confucius Institute teacher, Li Xin told reporters that many people choose to learn Chinese because their parents or the people around’ve been to China or have business dealings with China. “These students are very serious, love questions,” she said, “You know, they are after school or on weekends to learn Chinese, on the playing of children is not easy.”