The department of education of China declared: from now English becomes obligatory in an initial school. And from 2004 in all colleges "from 5 to 10% of disciplines are taught in English and on foreign textbooks". Both authorities and population take English an exceptional role today. History of septennial Dindina, living in Shankhae - most successful, elegant and cosmopolitan city of country, testifies to it... Seeing linguistic capabilities in a child, parents decided to send him to prestige bilingual private school "with the high level of teaching English". But the pronunciation of boy didn't please a strict commission - a candidature was rejected. And then parents appealed to Chu Jian, to the famous surgeon, doing plastic operations. He makes an incision a sublingual muscle, and through short time after a few trainings a pronunciation becomes much better. There is no getting rid of patients.

English in China is a fashion and, if you want, even epidemic. Integration to the world economy goes giant rates, a country was accepted in WTO, the number of the mixed enterprises grows. Often an employer sets the level of pay-envelope of man depending on quality of his English. It turns out that the Englishman can earn more than the Chinese. By the way, for visiting of the country presence of the Chinese visa necessarily!

From some data, at schools and institutes of higher English is studied by 450 million of Chinese today - every third habitant of country ... Central television of China was concluded by acceding to the firm "Pearson Broadband", and now 350 million families are got by portions of English lessons in live broadcast. Someone Li Jan, asserting, that he has 10 million students, created the method of "Crazy English". According to his opinion, it's vert hard to pronounce the English phrases for Chinese, they do it, as if looking on text in a textbook, and the unchained is needed. Therefore Li Jan turned students out of audiences on an area and compels them to yell texts.

Beijing leads in teaching. Millions of townspeople - from senior officials to the old women in street committees - study on courses. Especially those, who relates to tourism and sphere of service. Taxi-drivers (them 70 thousands) were provided with cassettes with elementary phrases...