If you think that Chinese women cannot speak English well, then you are wrong. Being dubbed as one of the most progressive countries throughout the world, to compete more in the global market Chinese people learn second language, which is English aside from their mother tongue. According to the list in wikipedia, China ranks on the 15th place in the list of countries of the world that uses English. Statistics shows that there are 10,000,000 English speakers in the country.
Chinese especially women of new generation want more information to expand their views and deal with social issues not only with textbooks. To prepare themselves for the information arena, they are eagerly learning about using digital information resources that will enhance their abilities and improve their computer literacy level. This is one of the reasons also why numerous outsourcing companies established and hire Chinese employees in call center fields because there around 6 million highly skilled technical workforce in the country in which more than 2 million are software developers.
The rising of English language aptitude in the country makes China a strong IT outsourcing environment. On the freeborders.com website, it stated that analysts indicate that China will challenge India’s IT leadership in 2008 through the country’s improved English proficiency.
To hone their English proficiency, there has been numerous English as a Second Language school growing within and outside major metropolis area. There are also English shows available in Chinese televisions. Most of the people especially Chinese women whet their English proficiency to be able to understand, read and speak the language without any trace of Chinese accent.