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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the Confucian Institute in Mexico City, instructors speak with [i]Americas Quarterly[/i] about teaching the Chinese language in Mexico.
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Mexico’s Chinese population and links between the two cultures continue to grow as new business and trade opportunities bring the two countries together. In these “AQ Up Close” videos, Americas Quarterly speaks with the director and instructor of the Instituto Confucio (Confucius Institute) in Mexico City about the linguistic interest that Mexicans are displaying toward learning Mandarin.

Lingyan Zhou, director of the Confucian Institute (in Spanish)

Yu Wen, teacher at the Confucian Institute

Videos by Keith Dannemiller.



Tags: China, Language, Mexico
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