Popular Chinese Internet memes and current Chinese terms like 「Let’s go, mantis shrimp!」, 「WeChat red packet」, and 「cashless payment」 are being added to Chinese language textbooks across India, as Indian teachers try to update learning materials to meet the mounting enthusiasm for learning Chinese, xinhuanet.com reported on Dec. 21, 2018.
「皮皮蝦，我們走」「微信紅包」「無現金支付」等等這些風靡中國的這些網際網路現象以及網絡流行語正成為印度漢語教科書的內容。據新華社12月21日報導，印度的教師正努力學習這些內容，以滿足持續升溫的漢語學習熱情。
Statistics from the Chinese Embassy in India show that Chinese language is currently taught in 20 Indian universities, eight of which offer Chinese as a major. Around 2,000 Indian students are majoring in Chinese in India, while the number of Chinese language learners across the whole country has reached nearly 20,000 people.
據中國駐印度大使館統計，目前印度有20所大學開設中文專業，其中8所大學開設中文專業，大約有2000名印度學生主修中文，而全國範圍內學習中文的人數已接近2萬人。
「From the Confucius Institute’s undergraduate courses and weekend classes for Chinese language lovers to Chinese classes in commercial training schools, people are showing greater passion for learning the Chinese language,」 said an Indian teacher, Mei Li (Chinese name), who teaches Chinese in the Confucius Institute at the University of Mumbai.
在孟買大學孔子學院教中文的印度教師美麗(中文名字)說，「從孔子學院的中文本科班，到周末興趣班，以及社會上開辦的一些商業培訓班，人們學習漢語的熱情越來越高」。
「In the past, we didn’t have enough students, but now our challenge is that the textbooks are not fresh enough, so I decided to compile a new textbook on Chinese language,」 said Mei Li, who disclosed that she had incorporated many hot topics on China’s social development and popular Internet culture in the book.
「以前是學生不多，但現在我們面臨的挑戰是教材內容不夠新，因此，我決定自己編一本教材。」 美麗表示，在新編的教科書裡，她選擇了很多中國社會發展中的熱點話題，以及流行的網際網路文化現象。
Mei Li is not the only person in India who has compiled a Chinese textbook to help people better learn Chinese and understand China. A young man, Chinese name Tang Hanming, has also created learning materials in Hindi and Indian dialects to enable Chinese language lovers who don’t understand English to learn Chinese more conveniently.
美麗並不是印度唯一一個編寫中文教科書幫助人們更好地學習漢語、了解中國的人。一位中文名叫唐漢明的年輕人還用印地語和印度方言製作了學習資料，讓那些不懂英語的漢語愛好者更方便地學習漢語。
Tang was taught Chinese in China, and now works in a Chinese-funded enterprise in Mumbai. In his spare time, he promotes Chinese language learning in the local area and runs a local Chinese language training school.
唐曾在中國學習漢語，目前在孟買一家中資企業工作，業餘時間在當地推廣漢語，並開辦了一家漢語學習培訓班。
「In India, people usually use the textbooks compiled by the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban), which are written in both Chinese and English. However, some learners don’t understand English, so we have to teach them in Hindi or even some local dialects,」 explained Tang.
「通常，印度漢語教學用的都是中國孔子學院總部(漢辦)的教科書，這也是漢語考級使用的標準教材，一般是中英文對照講解，然而，一些漢語愛好者和學習者不會說英語，這樣只能用印地語甚至一些方言講解，我們就試著編了一些簡易的印地語和印度方言漢語學習教材。」
Chinese is one of the working languages of the United Nations (UN) and is one of the most spoken languages in the world, explained a professor from the Center of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He said that the rise of 「Chinese fever」 in India is the natural result of China’s growing economic and political influence around the world, and especially one of the consequences of the continually deepening people-to-people exchanges between China and India in recent years.
位於印度新德裡的尼赫魯大學中國與東南亞研究中心教授狄伯傑表示，漢語是聯合國的工作語言之一，又是世界上使用人口最多的語言，隨著中國經濟和政治影響力的持續擴大，尤其是近年來中印兩國經貿人文交流不斷深入，印度人對漢語和中國的興趣自然也呈現升溫態勢。