Foreigners grapple with Chinese Foreigners grapple with Chinese By Xu Xiaomin, Shanghai Star. In the Chinese language training centre of SFSC, every year hundreds of people from Japan, the United States, France and Britain attend the Chinese class.
Most students are business people and their spouses.
It's common to see general managers, CEOs and chief representatives learning Chinese from a young Chinese teacher. About half of the students are Japanese. So the company sent him to China for 10 months of language training. After seven months of learning, he can communicate with Chinese people without much problem. But now I am proud that I can tell taxi drivers or shop assistants what I want directly.