There are generally two definitions of minority languages. Refers to languages other than those commonly used by the United Nations (Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic). There is also a view that English is a common language and all other languages are non-common, so another definition of minority languages refers to languages other than English. According to the first definition, there are about 30 minority languages offered in Chinese universities.
Europe: German, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, etc.
Asia and Africa: Persian, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Malay, Burmese, Sinhala, Hausa, Swahili, etc.
According to analysis, the sharp increase in the number of students studying in small language countries is closely related to their employment and popularity. In Beijing, there are often major foreign affairs activities and sports events, such as holding the World Conference on Women and the World University Games. At this time, all Spanish students from Beijing Foreign Studies University and other schools were sent as volunteers, and all of them were assigned by the organizers to foreign officials and important people who came to China as translators to train foreign affairs discipline and language translation ability.
At present, the employment situation of almost all college graduates is not optimistic, but the employment of students majoring in small languages is outstanding, and the employment rate has reached nearly 100%. This employment competitiveness quickly gave birth to the training market. With the continuous warming of minority language learning, social training institutions have launched minority language training courses, and the number of participants in the training shows a linear upward trend every year. This phenomenon is particularly prominent not only in the Shanghai market, but also in many economically developed cities in the Yangtze River Delta.