In 2010, the British Government announced a new partnership with China to train one-thousand Mandarin teachers for secondary schools.
At present, there are only one-hundred Mandarin teachers across the whole of Britain.
Siat Vincent is a primary school Mandarin teacher.
She says the biggest issue she faces is that the children don't get to practice outside the classroom.
"The only problem for me as a teacher is that the language is not used anywhere else for the children, so they don't get to practice except when they are with me."
And with so many choices of modern languages on offer at secondary school level, what are the prospects for the Chinese language to be taken up s
