Zimbabwe: Learning Chinese

The Bearded Man provides his daily roundup of Zimbabwe which includes a report that the government intends to impose Mandarin on Zimbabwean university students.…..”Now, given that Sindebele, Shona or English are serious tongue twisters depending on where you originate from and grew up, I envisage that Chinese will cause more problems for the students. The introduction is in line with the government's ‘look east’ policy.”

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