The Economic Times – Staff Writer
“”Xiang jiao! Banana!” says Fu Huijuan, beaming as she waves the fruit in front of her three-year-old pupil, Leon, at a Madrid nursery school. He and his four classmates have barely learned to speak even in their native Spanish, but already they are absorbing Mandarin Chinese-as are many adult Spaniards concerned for their job prospects. “Chinese seems to me an essential language in today’s world, and the best way to learn it is from an early age…It is a long-term strategy, for his job prospects in the future,” says Leon’s mother, Sara Vergara.”(more)