3,500 kids in Chicago Public Schools are learning Chinese

That's out of 435,000, making it less than 1% of students. [link]

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Submitted by Paul on March 31st, 2006 at 7:42 AM #

That's right. Chinese is becoming more and more popular.I also started taking Chinese classes. I found a good way to learn the language using my iPod.
I can recommend one site for this: http://blog.melnyks.com It's full name is "Learn Mandarin Chinese with Serge Melnyk" It's not fancy, but is very useful.

Best,
Paul