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Despite government clampdown, Chinese upbeat about learning English
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English is a core subject in primary and secondary schools, and a compulsory paper in the national "gaokao", or college entrance exams.
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BEIJING - Growing anti-Western nationalism has seen China downgrade the learning and official use of English, but that has not suppressed demand among the Chinese for ways to master the language.
Students and working adults have turned increasingly to live streams, drama classes and forming study sessions.
