Feature: Enthusiasm soars as more Ghanaian school children clamor for Chinese language

ACCRA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- It is a normal Friday in Cape Coast, the capital of Ghana's Central Region, which borders the Atlantic Ocean. In a classroom at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Primary School, pupils are in their Chinese language class, and with great enthusiasm.

They repeat Chinese characters, phrases, and sentences after their Ghanaian teacher, who is one of the local Chinese language teachers sent to the school by the Confucius Institute at the UCC.