The Profitability of Learning the Chinese Language in the Context of Increasing Opportunities in the Labor Market

The article talks about the issues of potential factors motivating Europeans to take Chinese classes and the potential benefits that can be achieved due to that decision. The author also presented the results of research, conducted among teachers from Central and Eastern Europe specializing in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The study aimed to obtain information on the actual main motivations that encouraged respondents to start learning the language and to get an answer to the question of whether its mastery for the respondents turned out to be useful and is useful and profitable on the labor market. Among the main conclusions, it should be mentioned that the decision to make an effort related to learning a foreign language is assessed very positively. However, among the actual profits associated with mastering the Chinese language, non-financial elements are mainly mentioned.