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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Confucius Institute goes high-tech - Sophia Maines, Lawrence Journal-World
Teacher Yi Honggen slowly enunciated the Mandarin Chinese word for hello. “Ni hao,” he said. A chorus of high school students repeated after him, “Ni hao.” Yi’s class, organized by Kansas University’s Confucius Institute, is bringing Mandarin Chinese instruction to more Kansas students. “We are tripling the number of Kansas high school students learning Chinese with this course,” said Bill Tsutsui, the institute’s director. And it’s doing so in nontraditional ways. The interactive distance-learning class links students from across the state with Yi, who teaches from a room at KU.
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