Learning Chinese language helps Americans know different world

Beinecke recently launched a program called "Crazy Fresh Chinese" to teach American students one Chinese slang everyday. "I want to empower my viewers with useful global skills and bring the Chinese language to life," she said.

Jason Loose is a 2012 graduate of Arizona State University. After his graduation, he had a chance to spend a year in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, studying Chinese and pedagogy. When he came back to America, he joined Thousand Oaks High School in Thousand Oaks, California, to teach the Chinese language and culture.

Loose started to learn Chinese in 2007. Talking about that, he said: "I found China is somewhere that goes with a lot of change and somewhere in the middle of fast development when I was reading about it."

"Everyone who went there has learned so much and experienced so much. Sometimes they had even just changed a lot as a person. I didn't always see that happening of people who are studying other languages, it seems like Chinese is the one that happens most. It attracted me to learn Chinese," Loose said.

He loves to share his experience in China with his students and on culture days he would like to show them video clips on China to help them understand the culture beneath appearance.

"I have showed them a video about a Chinese person traveling home for Chunjie (Chinese Lunar New Year). They saw all the little things in the video that showed how important it is to be with your family on New Year day, how tight family relationships are and how important the family is in China," he said. "That's what we called 'let the culture speaks first.'"

"Many young people see learning Chinese and learning this culture a way of transforming their everyday life," Coleman said. "It's a generation of young Americans looking for different worlds in which they can do good work."