如今，欣赏古老的东方魅力在西方越来越时髦，想学中文的洋人比以往任何时候都多。我曾教过一位即将赴华工作的英国工程师约翰，他决定临行前先恶补一下汉语口语。他指定要学的教材是BBC广播公司出版的汉语课本。该书扉页上的广告词甚有煽动力，声称特别适合旅游者和商人的速成 Today, enjoying ancient oriental charm is becoming more and more fashionable in the West, more foreigners wanting to learn Chinese than ever before. I have taught John, a British engineer going to work in China, who decided to make up for the spoken Chinese before leaving. He specifies that the materials to be learned are Chinese textbooks published by the BBC. The ad on the title page of the book is incitement to claim that it is particularly suitable for the speed-up of tourists and merchants