Twenty-seven (27) individuals on Nevis, 13 of them high school students, have made history as the first group in the region to sit the formal Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCFL) exam.

The candidates, which included 14 adults, sat the electronically administered TCFL Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT) on April 21st. The results will be given in a few weeks.

Mandarin language, is the most widely spoken form of Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is spoken in all of China and in much of the rest of the country and is the native language of two-thirds of the population.

In becoming multi-lingual, one can stand out in the job market and enhance career prospects with in-demand bilingual skills.