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    China largest English speaking nation now

    China largest English speaking nation now

    Posted: January 18, 2010, 9:15 AM
    by Diane Francis China, Entrepreneurs, economy

    The world's "lingua franca" is English and an estimated two billion are trying to learn it as their linguistic passport to business success and global access. China leads the pack, followed by India and Eastern Europe.

    "This year China will become the world's largest English-speaking nation of more than 300 million," said Mike Kraft, CEO of Lingo Media Corporation which is poised to cash in on this gigantic market.

    But English speaking is a bit of a misnomer. The problem in China is a shortage of teachers who actually speak English properly.

    Enter Lingo Media, Kraft's small, Toronto-listed company. He has been a specialty publisher for years who has been developing English textbook products for China's governments for years. Then he realized the teacher shortage problem so he just launched a breakthrough web-based learning product, using voice recognition software, for the Chinese market.

    Within one year of operation, it has signed up one million registered users and is growing its client base exponentially.

    Check it out

    The site, speak2me.cn, is in Chinese and accessible on the web. Free to registrants, it provides a virtual teacher, an avatar, who interacts with students. This avatar speaks English properly and, through voice recognition software, "listens" to students repeat her words and sentences then makes them verbalize over again until they get it right.
    There is scoring, contests and prizes.

    Students can tap into hundreds of tailor-made modules -- about shopping, studying, working, traveling or socializing -- that help them practice their pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. They can repeat them as often as they wish and the site is friendly and playful. It makes practice enjoyable instead of painful.

    "The Chinese are so proficient at passing tests by memorizing, reading, writing but the teachers cannot speak it properly," said Kraft. "We are giving them a personal English teacher, without cost, on their PCs."

    Speak2me is free to registrants because its business model is based on advertising. Messages are embedded into content, without affecting its quality. Because speak2m is so far ahead of language instruction rivals, in the giant Chinese market, it has been approached and has signed up some of the world's biggest advertisers such as Mercedes-Benz, Motorola, Procter & Gamble and others.

    MegaNumbers

    "Within three months, 60,000 Chinese professionals did English lessons on our site which included Smart Car content and promotion," said Kraft in an interview.

    The site's one million users are coinage to advertisers, spending nine minutes on the site on average. China's pool of learners is the largest by far worldwide and will grow. All Chinese post-secondary institutions requires English proficiency for admission and the reality is that salary premiums to English-speakers is an average of 72.5%.

    Speak2m has also been hired to provide modules to teach English to the guides for this year's World Expo in Shanghai. But its main product is on the web and China represents the world's biggest pool of online users or 328 million.

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    On the NBC News tonight they said that there are more people in China who can speak English than there are people in the U.S.
    This is the best article that I could find to support that claim.
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    Check out the site for the instructions.

    http://www.speak2me.cn/
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    See this is exactly why I love you guys, I'd never have thought that when I told my son who got hired at Toyota, (Thank God) to learn Japanese because for some weird reason they love him, he's a spaz and he's down
    with the Homie's. That there's a website he may be able to learn how to from.Thanks again,and again.
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    Now I don't need to learn Chinese.
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