Chinese Characters
Most public schools in the United States teach foreign languages, but the selection for years was limited to mostly French and Spanish. Now that the global marketplace and the Internet have opened up to countries like China, India and Japan, there is a need for language courses to include these Asian languages as well. When you think about it, the most spoken language on earth is Chinese, so it only makes sense that it should be offered in a school’s curriculum. Chinese is hard for westerners to learn partly because of the huge number of characters that must be mastered.
