Global Times: Enthusiasm for learning Chinese rises in Thailand as Chinese replaces Japanese as second-largest foreign language
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Monday, August 21, 2023
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Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech, a "senior student" at the Confucius Institute of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, greets visiting journalist from the Global Times in Chinese.
Key Points:
- Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech, a "senior student" at the Confucius Institute of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, greets visiting journalist from the Global Times in Chinese.
- Suchart believes that in the future, Thai government officials should be proficient in two foreign languages: English and Chinese.
- Han Shenglong, the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University, told the Global Times that in Thailand, Chinese has gradually replaced Japanese as the second-largest foreign language after English.
- Suchart told the Global Times that during his tenure as the education minister in Thailand, he expressed his hopes that Chinese educational institutions would send 10,000 Chinese language teachers to Thailand to provide Chinese language education.