We have seen Chinese influence in fashion, furniture, home decor, and mall shops’ window displays.  Now it is fashionable to learn Chinese even on the top university campuses globally.   One of our students is attending UCLA, she was telling me, Chinese classes are the hottest on campus, they are all booked full the day when they are available, not only because there is a big Asian population on campus of UCLA, but also because it is trendy.  It is cool to be able to read the Chinese character on somebody’s t-shirt, it is even more hip if you traveled to China on your own with your broken Chinese, or just the few phrases you learned in high school.

With the demand is growing in learning Chinese online and market is very local and fragmented, we have launched a sister site, www.languagesphere.com, which is for a different learning community and market place.  We added English and some other subjects lessons which we can offer online for life long learners.  Enjoy learning!

Get Ahead, Learn MANDARIN is an old article online from Time ASIA – http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501060626/story.html, read it and let me know your feedback.