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by Xinhua writers Yang Shilong, Xu Xingtang


NEW YORK Women's Nike Air Max 270 Flyknit Clear Emerald , Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- When Morgan Jones first started learning Mandarin at Middlebury College in the U.S. northeastern state of Vermont, there were only 10 students for that first year class. By the time he graduated from the college, the students in that same first year class reached 60.


"That means the number grew to at least six times the number ever since I started," recalled Jones, now Chief Operating Officer of U.S.-China Strong Foundation, during a recent interview with Xinhua.


CHINESE FEVER


The Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization is leading a Chinese language education initiative called "1 Million Strong" which seeks to expand to 1 million the number of U.S. K-12 students learning Mandarin by 2020.


"We've definitely seen a lot of growth initially Women's Nike Air Max 270 Barely Grey , when we announce the program (in 2015), there were somewhere around 200,000 Americans learning Mandarin Chinese. There are currently 400,000 learning Mandarin Chinese," said Jones, who speaks fluent Mandarin himself.


"For the first time across the nation Women's Nike Air Max 270 Shoes Black White Anthracite , you saw Chinese instruction in elementary schools, middle schools and high schools... I think, it continues to grow," Charles Laughlin, East Asian Studies and Department Chair, University of Virginia Women's Nike Air Max 270 Shoes Pink White , told Xinhua via phone.


"The most significant new aspect of this Chinese Fever, was that it went down to the level of primary and secondary school education," said Laughlin, who specializes in Modern Chinese Literature.


Chinese was categorized along with Arabic, Swahili and Icelandic as a "Less Commonly Taught Language" in the United States when Laughlin was in college in the U.S. state of Minnesota about 30 years ago,


Now Women's Nike Air Max 270 Shoes Black Pink Lavender , the world's oldest written language is the second most commonly spoken non-English language, only after Spanish, in the United States.


"There was an English fever in China when I left for the U.S., now we are seeing a Chinese Fever here," said Chen Jinguo, a Mandarin teacher with the China Institute Women's Nike Air Max 270 Flight Gold , a non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to advancing a deeper understanding of China.


Chen, who immigrated to the U.S. in early 1990s, noted young Chinese have been furiously learning English for years, particularly after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.


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