{"id":1709,"date":"2009-10-13T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2009-10-13T17:09:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:09:37","slug":"chinese-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"Chinese in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/8297557.stm\">apparently<\/a> one of the largest overseas investors in Liberia and there are numerous Chinese people working there. As a result some Liberians have started learning Chinese and some of them are keen to visit China if they get the chance. Lessons are taking place in the Samuel Doe Stadium in Monrovia, and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lr.china-embassy.org\/eng\/sghdhzxxx\/t527184.htm\">Confucius Institute<\/a>, which opened in the University of Liberia in December 2008.<\/p>\n<p>If the locals learn to read Chinese as well they will be able to understand the Chinese versions of the numerous agreements that are signed. There is even a Chinese language radio station there for the Chinese migrants and expats.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 20 Chinese language schools in Africa at the moment, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2009\/10\/08\/ap\/africa\/main5371631.shtml\">this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is apparently one of the largest overseas investors in Liberia and there are numerous Chinese people working there. As a result some Liberians have started learning Chinese and some of them are keen to visit China if they get the chance. Lessons are taking place in the Samuel Doe Stadium in Monrovia, and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}