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One of our students come from Africa, his family is doing clothes trading business in China. He wants to learn Mandarin because he want to do business together with his families. The mandarin now is widely used all over the world. There are many opportunities for him to do the business between his hometown and China. Therefore, he start to learn not only the Mandarin but also the Chinese culture to know about how Chinese people do business and how they think in Chinese logic. The Mandarin study do helps a lot to him.
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A student of us is an American-born Chinese who was born in USA since childhood. He never live in China before. Although he has some Chinese friends or some friends who speak Mandarin, he still found it hard to pick up this language. The thing is study Mandarin is a long journey. It need some patience and the language environment is also a plus. If there is no language environment for a starter, then the systematic training is important. After two terms of lesson with us, this student now can confidently speak with native speakers and he is working hard to become a professional Mandarin speaker now.