素有“英国高考”之称的A-level考试8月16日正式放榜。今年报考外语科目的A-level考生中选考汉语的人数首次超过德语。
Chinese A-level has overtaken German for the first time, as it becomes the UK’s third most popular language.
在英国今年的A-level考试中,选考汉语的考生人数首次超过德语。汉语成为英国第三大热门语言。
This year 3,334 students took Chinese A-level, compared to 3,058 taking German. While entries for Chinese have increased by 8.6 percent since last year, German entries have declined by 16.5 percent.
今年有3334名学生报考了汉语A-level考试,德语有3058人。选考汉语的报名人数比去年增长了8.6%,而德语则减少了16.5%。
Derek Richardson, the senior responsible officer at Pearson, said Chinese has “bucked the trend” of the fall in popularity of modern languages.
培生集团高级官员德里克·理查森说,汉语“逆转”了现代语言受欢迎度下降的“趋势”。
“In languages we are seeing some significant decreases in entries for the main modern languages: French, German and Spanish,” he said
他说:“我们看到一些主要现代语言的报考人数大幅减少,包括法语、德语和西班牙语。”
"But what we are also seeing is an increase in entries across some of the other languages that people study.
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