Chinese language part of Pak. school curriculum

AZADPAKISTAN2009 · Sep 30, 2011

Schools in Pakistan's Sindh province to teach Chinese

Reference: BBC News - Schools in Pakistan's Sindh province to teach Chinese
Pupils in a Pakistani class (file picture) Students in Sindh already have to learn three languages
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The government of the Pakistani province of Sindh has announced plans to make Chinese compulsory in schools from 2013.

All educational institutions in the province will have to provide Chinese language courses from class six (10-11-year-olds), it says.

The provincial government says that the decision was taken because of Pakistan's close ties with China.

The two countries have been strong allies for more than 50 years.

In May, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani described China as his country's "best friend".

But some critics say the plan is political, will need considerable investment in teaching staff and materials, and further stretch limited resources.

Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq said that the initiative reflected China's growing role as an economic giant in the world and would benefit Pakistan in the long term.

"Our trade, educational and other relations are growing with China everyday and now it is necessary for our younger generation to have command over their language," he said.

The provincial government says that students will be given incentives, including foreign scholarships, to encourage them to study Chinese.

The Sindh government says that it will seek help from China to go ahead with the plan and is now in the process of devising a syllabus.

Teachers critical of the scheme say it will put an additional burden on them and students, who already have to learn three languages - English, Urdu and Sindhi - as compulsory subjects.

TopCat · Sep 30, 2011

Good move..
Chinese language is very easy. You just need to memorize 1500 of their word and put them together in a sentence. Thats it. There is no grammer invoved. Pronunciation kinda tricky though.

below_freezing · Sep 30, 2011

iajdani said:
Good move..
Chinese language is very easy. You just need to memorize 1500 of their word and put them together in a sentence. Thats it. There is no grammer invoved. Pronunciation kinda tricky though.

there is alot of grammar. i dont get why people say chinese has no grammar. 如果我把该句子的单词顺序倒过来，这句子的意思就完全不同了。如果在一个语言中，一个句子会由于词语的顺序而改变意思，就意味着该语言有语法。目前，所有的语言都有语法，没有语法的语言无法养育一个能在现代社会中生存的民族。

RezRoll · Sep 30, 2011

Good move. I tried learning Mandarin once, but it was ridiculously tough (though Chinese-Dragon begs to differ

)

If this students learn the language when they're young, it'll be useful to them in the future working world. I'm assuming they're also learning English, so basically they have the top two languages in the world covered and add that with Urdu, they can communicate in the western world, Chinese world, and the Sub-continent. That's alot of regions covered there

Omar1984 · Sep 30, 2011

A thread is already open on this news, thread was created about 3 weeks ago.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/curren...e-language-now-compulsory-sindh-province.html

I say its a good move.

bubble123 · Sep 30, 2011

Punjab should also follow the suit ASAP.

SBD-3 · Sep 30, 2011

IMHO, I think It can be offered in HSSE and Bachelors level where person is at least done with english...In sixth Grade a person starting both Chinese and English will certainly be burdened.
P:S in some business schools like our IBA,a second foreign language is a must in qualification requirements (They offer Chinese and Japanese at the moment)

Kyusuibu Honbu · Sep 30, 2011

hasnain0099 said:
IMHO, I think It can be offered in HSSE and Bachelors level where person is at least done with english...In sixth Grade a person starting both Chinese and English will certainly be burdened.
P:S in some business schools like our IBA,a second foreign language is a must in qualification requirements (They offer Chinese and Japanese at the moment)

The earlier the better....learning languages as an adult is difficult.

Chinese-Dragon · Sep 30, 2011

10-11 year olds? That is far too young to be learning FOUR languages.

They already have to handle their local dialect, their national language, and English too. Why add a fourth one?

Make it voluntary instead of compulsory.

zahidiqbalrana · Jun 12, 2015

This, despite the availability of a vast treasure of knowledge available in bookstores and libraries with which a questioning mind can easily puncture the spew of lies, half-truths and myths spun into the nation’s collective psyche—all in the name of defending the country’s Islamic heritage and the so-called ideology. The other reason is the most prominent though. It has something to do with a state of mind that is a culmination of fear, ignorance and guilt. Thanks to the maliciously tempered history taught to us of Islam and Pakistan in our schools, class results and and colleges as well as with their results, I have noticed that very few young Pakistanis have any ability left in them to question (in an informed manner) what is dished to them by the courts, the state, the clerics and the televangelists as ‘Islam’ and ‘nationalism.’