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《参考消息》2006年6月25日第8版：掌握汉语意味着领先一步
《时代》周刊2006年6月26日（提前出版）文章：来吧，学习汉语
Get Ahead, Learn Mandarin
By Austin Ramzy
Posted Monday, June 19, 2006; 20:00 HKT Time
It's Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district. As the office workers head to their favorite watering holes[1], three salarymen split from the crowd and enter a decrepit[2] building that stands between a karaoke lounge and a tavern[3]. Ignoring the sounds of sirens, drunken crooning and breaking glass outside, Hidetoshi Seki, Takashi Kudo and Yuji Yano h________① in a tiny room just big enough for a table for four, and open their Chinese textbooks. For the next 50 minutes the trio, all from a small trading company, practice describing their favorite foods and hobbies in Mandarin. Yano, 39, says. "We sort of unanimously agreed that Chinese would be a useful skill to acquire."
No k_______②. The urge that drives those salarymen to pass up[4] karaoke on a Friday night is increasingly common. In the past, when people set out to improve themselves by learning another language, those that didn't already speak it usually picked English. But while English may be the only truly international language, millions of tongues are wagging over[5] what is rapidly becoming the world's other lingua franca[6]: Mandarin. （1）Seen as a key skill for people hitching their futures to China's economic rise, Mandarin is becoming common currency, particularly in Asia where trade ties with the Middle Kingdom are supplanting those of the region's longtime primary partner, the U.S. Indeed, because English is spoken so u_________③, it no longer offers companies and employees the edge it once did, according to a recent report by British linguist David Gaddol. If you want to get ahead, learn Mandarin. "In many Asian countries, in Europe and the USA, Mandarin has emerged as the new must-have language," Gaddol notes.
To an extent, this is a case of history r________④ itself. Just as Americans started studying Japanese in droves in the 1980s, when Japan's economy was ascendant, so today, as China rises, the world is embracing Mandarin. In South Korea, 160,000 high school and university students are studying the Chinese language, an increase of 66% over the past five years._________________________, （从1993年到2005年，开设汉语课的日本中学[secondary schools]增加了3倍以上）and in Japan it's now the most taught foreign language after English.
Outside Asia, the ranks of students studying Chinese are small but growing rapidly. From 2000-2004, the number of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland doing Advanced Level exams (those normally taken at age 18) in Chinese climbed by 57%. In the U.S., Chinese still l________⑤ far behind traditional foreign languages like French and Spanish, but China is the fastest growing destination for college students studying abroad.
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