Following the rise in China’s economy, Mandarin fervor has spread throughout the world making it the most in demand language all around. But just how hot is this fervor?

The Mandarin Training Center in National Taiwan Normal University announces Mandarin as the third dominant language in America. Starting 2007, the Department of Education offers Mandarin proficiency tests to high school students. As of August 2006, the Department of Homeland Security aids USD$1000 per individual (approximately NTD$33,000) to encourage high schoolers to learn languages of strategic value, such as Mandarin.

World reknown newspaper, The Times, offered Mandarin courses and CD-ROMs from February 8-18, 2007 to stimulate subscribers to learn Mandarin. At Brighton College, Mandarin is a required course. As of September 2007, the Headmaster announced Mandarin tutelage to begin as early as three years old, at least one class every week starting from nursery until sixth grade.

Due to the incessant demand to learn Mandarin, universities and the respective governments from South Korea and China have collaborated to establish a ‘Han-Chinese Center’ inside the Ren Chuan economic free area, allowing students to learn Mandarin and experience the Chinese culture.

Japan has studied the Japanese culture for over 1,000 years. Even in the forthcoming 2000 years, there should be a yearly average of 2 million people intent on learning Mandarin.

In Indonesia, the world’s largest Islamite country, Mandarin-teaching kindergartens are much coveted even with monthly tuition fees exceeding NTD$7000.

On January 2006, the Ministry of Education officially declared Mandarin as its official secondary language and integrated it into the curriculum of 2000 elementary, middle and high schools.