Reuters reports on an English-language-learning craze among residents in Beijing, Reuters reports.
The classes are all part of Beijing’s effort to get its population to speak English to welcome the millions of foreigners expected to flood to the city in this Olympic year. Worried that its citizens’ notoriously poor command of the language will embarrass the country and lead to unfortunate misunderstandings, the Chinese government has embarked on a massive programme to teach the population basic English.
– Read a previous post Cops Learn English Phrases for Olympics via CDT
– Source from Shanghaiist
