Chinese is the most widely spoken mother tongue and the second most widely spoken language in the world. In numbers, this means Chinese is the mother tongue of 982 million people, and a total of 1,100 million people speak Chinese in their daily lives. Due to economic interests, the Chinese language is becoming more and more important in Slovenia and Styria, which we at the Hiša jezikov language school have been aware of for quite some time now and which means that we have been teaching Chinese for many years now.