a at yale university, enrollment in basic chinese in 2005 grew rapidly, and for the first time professors can remember, large numbers of freshmen were arriving with enough knowledge of the chinese language to start in second- or third-year chinese language class, rather than basic chinese. the american interest in china is not just at the university level. in the 2006 school year, high-school students will be offered an advanced placement test, which is one of the national exams american students take for university admission, in chinese. this is the first time chinese is offered in the advanced placement test, which is usually limited to the most important subje