Spanish learning surges in China, teachers scarce

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSpanish is booming in China, with enrolments up twelve point six percent between two thousand twenty-three and two thousand twenty-five, but the Cervantes Institute says there aren't enough teachers, Euronews reports.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat's a lot of people wanting to say hola. Sixty-six thousand students, and over eighteen thousand native speakers living there already.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSpanish is now offered in thirty-one Chinese cities, and up to ninety-eight percent of universities teach a degree in Hispanic Philology.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAn official called it an expansion at extraordinary speed.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNinety-eight percent. So who's standing at the front of all those classrooms?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat is the question. The institute's director, Luis García Montero, said "more teachers are needed."

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat is a very polite way to describe building a university system first and staffing it second.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOkay, but fifty-five thousand graduates is a great problem to have. Surely a few of them could teach.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFifty-five thousand is the count of university graduates, yes.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAn older institute report, from two thousand thirteen, found only six hundred qualified professors in the whole country.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSix hundred.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe figures were presented at a Beijing symposium marking the institute's twentieth anniversary there. My verdict: a triumph of enrolment, and a scandal of staffing.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSomebody should hire the graduates.