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卡梅伦呼吁英国年轻人多学中文 David Cameron, who has notoriously poor schoolboy French, is urging todays youngsters to abandon the language of Molière and Voltaire to concentrate on the tongue of the future - Mandarin. 众所周知，卡梅伦的法语水平相当一般。但他却呼吁英国年轻人放弃法语学习，集中精力学习“未来的语言”——汉语。 ? In a parting shot, as he left China after a three-day visit, the prime minister said that pupils should look beyond the traditional French and German lessons and instead focus on China. ? To reinforce his message the prime minister quoted Nelson Mandela, who said learning someone elses language is the best way to their heart. Cameron said: I want Britain linked up to the worlds fast-growing economies. And that includes our young people learning the languagesto seal tomorrows business deals. ? By the time the children born today leave school, China is set to be the worlds largest economy. So its time to look beyond the traditional focus on French and German and get many more children learning Mandarin. ? As Mandela once said: If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head, if you talk to him in his own language that goes to his heart. ? Cameron, who visited a school for six- and seven-year-olds learning English in Chengdu, said that a partnership between the British Council and Hanban – the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language - will double the number of Chinese language assistants in the UK by 2016 and provide increased funding to lower the cost to schools of offering Mandarin as a language option. ? In an expansion of the UK-China School Partnerships programme, funding will also be provided for 60 headteachers to make study visits to China in 2014. ? The announcement was welcomed by the British Council and the British Academy, both of which have been pushing for policies to reverse the decline in students taking modern languages at school and university level. ? Martin Davidson, the British Councils chief executive who has been visiting China with Cameron,