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Pakistan is feeling more and more like a Chinatown — Quartz. If you pass him by in his electronic parts and components shop in the Electronics Market in Karachi’s Saddar, Mohammad Ali Arabi would look like any other normal young Pakistani businessman. There is nothing out of the ordinary about him until you hear him conversing on the phone with someone in Mandarin.“Seeing Ali Bhai speaking while making strange facial gestures by twisting his features to pronounce the words, at first we thought that maybe he was possessed or having some kind of a fit,” laughs another shop owner in the market. But now we are used to his speaking the language of our Chinese friends. He is often on the phone with someone or the other in China,” the shopowner adds.“I learnt the language back in 2. Chinese lady visiting Pakistan for her work,” says Arabi. Her work required her staying in Karachi for extended periods and I helped her get by in things such as helping her find office space, where to buy groceries from, etc.

In return, I requested her to teach me her language,” he says.“The Chinese don’t call their language ‘Chinese’ or ‘Mandarin’. Watch Crossroads Online Fandango. They call it Putonghua,” Arabi explains. Watch Shinjuku Incident Online (2017).

They don’t even refer to their country as ‘China’. For them it is Zhonghua, meaning ‘central country’.“Learning the language has helped me a lot in knowing our friends better. It has also helped me in expanding my own electronics business. I often travel to mainland China where speaking the local language helps. Though everyone there is most kind on learning that I’m from Pakistan, when they find that I am fluent in their language, too, they sell me something they will sell you for 1.

Yuan for just two or three Yuan,” says Arabi. The spoken word. At the Axinstitute for Chinese Language, Asim Qadri says that his father had stressed the importance of learning Chinese 2. There was no talk of the China- Pakistan Economic Corridor [CPEC] back then,” he explains. But I believe my father was a great visionary and a very wise man indeed to have realised all those years ago that the old friendship between China and Pakistan would pave the way for further interaction between the two peoples. He said it was going to be the language of the future in this region.

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He could speak German and Arabic himself and for us he predicted the importance of Chinese.”Having acted on his father’s advice, Qadri now teaches the language at his institute in Karachi’s Gulshan- i- Iqbal along with also offering courses at some of the biggest and best universities of the city. Asim Qadri teaching Mandarin at the Axinstitute for Chinese Language (Dawn)“The language may seem difficult to you at first but not after I explain the fundamentals to you,” Qadri explains to his class. Speaking Chinese is all about tone. The language constitutes four basic syllables. The meaning of a word in Chinese may change according to the tone or syllable used in pronouncing it. It may be the same word though.

Also,” he adds, “like we have alphabets in Urdu and English, there are no alphabets in Chinese. Maybe written Chinese may seem like a bunch of insects to you at first but after careful study you would notice that they are pictograms. Writing ‘tree’ will have you actually drawing a symbol that looks like a pine tree, writing ‘heart’ will have you draw the outline of a heart,” he demonstrates while writing on the board,” he says.

The majority of Qadri’s students are businessmen or professionals working in fields where they have plenty of interaction with the Chinese. So they want to learn functional or spoken Chinese. I have specially designed short courses for them. After studying one module, those who already have some interaction with the native Chinese are able to build further on their language skills through practice,” he points out.

One of Qadri’s students, Maria Qayyum Farooqui, a project communications executive with an events management company, says that they get Chinese delegations that they are expected to communicate with all the time. Chinese people are very sharp. They understand a bit of Urdu and English, too. But we are at a disadvantage when trying to get our message across to them,” says Maria. Some years ago, Mohammad Aftab, a youth from Abbottabad working with the Indus Motor Company Limited found an opportunity to travel to Korea. He wanted to work there but as things didn’t work out according to plan, he found himself travelling to China on a five- year visa.

During his stay there he got by doing small jobs. He also learnt the local language. Aftab wanted to stay on in China as he couldn’t really envision making a life for himself in his native Abbottabad. But after overstaying his welcome there—when his visa expired—the young man was unceremoniously deported to Pakistan. A bank signboard in Mandarin and English at Gwadar airport. Shazia Hasan)Aftab’s story doesn’t end just there.

After coming back here, he worked as a part- time electrician for some time, earning around 5. It was like this until he realised that he possessed a valuable skill—fluency in the Chinese language. Today, he is employed with the Hazara Motorway Project and the high- paying job he landed is because of his fluency in Mandarin. Aftab earns almost 2. Chinese technicians working with the company to build roads. Knowledge is power. The news, two years ago, that Mandarin as a subject was to be made mandatory in schools in Sindh from class six to class 1.

A copy of the Quran in Chinese with writing implements. Shazia Hasan)Under the Mo. U signed between the Sindh government education department and Chinese education department, schools in Sindh are to teach Mandarin while imparting knowledge about Chinese culture and values with the help of China.

Under the scheme students learning Mandarin will be awarded extra marks, scholarships and be given opportunities for further education in China. Though implementation of that decision is yet to be seen, there are some schools that have taken up the task of teaching Chinese to their pupils. One such chain of schools that goes by the name of the Roots School System (which has branches across Pakistan) has started doing it already.

The written word. Communication also includes publishing periodicals for the Chinese readership in Pakistan. The Chinese mean business and Huashang is the first business news magazine in Mandarin, which has been serving a readership of 2. We have a team of Chinese journalists and Chinese translators working to bring out this fortnightly magazine, which comes out alternately with an English edition one week and a Chinese one the next,” says Umar Farooq Alvi, an editor, at the magazine’s head office in Islamabad. The focus of the magazines is on business. We help Chinese companies looking to invest in Pakistan understand our market better,” Alvi explains. The magazine only publishes 5,0.

Facebook, too. “Our copies are free. We earn through advertisements,” he says.

We publish advertisements for Chinese multinational companies looking for mergers with local business houses, we carry government advertisements too,” he adds. Getting a good response for the publication, the magazine’s management recently met to look into bringing out both their English and Chinese publications simultaneously instead of on alternate weeks. We are discussing it now.

Let’s see what happens,” Alvi says. Banking on the Chinese. Of late, some banks have also started attracting Chinese clients through their language.

Habib Metropolitan Bank happens to be the trailblazer here. Watch Ritual Megavideo more. One can see the bank’s name is written both in English and in Chinese on the green board above the main entrance of some of their branches, one of them being at Bilawal Chowrangi. Sheeza Ahmed, a senior manager looking at marketing at Habib.

Metro says they have Chinese business desks to look after their Chinese clientele at select branches. Currently, there are five to 1.