English was introduced into the country in the Qing Dynasty, how did they all learn it?

There are two ways:

First, ask those Westerners who have been in China for a long time to teach them

China has been a legend in the world in ancient times, and it can be said that in all the dynasties, even the weakest and the most closed ones, there were Westerners arriving and living in China. Although the number could not be compared to today, but at least there was never a shortage. These? Westerners? arrived in China basically for two big purposes: to survive, but to evangelize.

In the early days, when the Western world was very poor, most people saw Eastern China as a land of gold, and in order to improve their lives they had to go to great lengths to reach China. In order to improve their lives, they had to go to great lengths to reach China, and in order to survive, they had to learn Chinese. So there were the first people who knew both Chinese and Western languages. Initially, our people did not care to learn Western languages, but the power of the West during the Qing Dynasty made our people realize the importance of learning, so they changed their perception and wanted to learn English.

But by this time English was already understood by a large number of people, most of this group of people existed in the coastal cities of China, all of them often and? foreigners? So at this time the majority of domestic people want to learn English, the most common method is to ask these people will be English coastal cities to teach, with the teacher to learn nature is not a difficult thing.

Send a group of people into the Western world to study

After the Second Opium War, the Qing government seriously recognized the importance of Western science and technology and sent the first group of people to study in the West. These were China's first foreign students, basically children between the ages of 8 and 10, who already had a good grounding in Chinese, and were just about at their strongest in terms of their ability to learn and adapt. After years of study in the West, the national language would be somewhat forgotten, but could be mastered quickly. So these people became the first authentic English teachers during the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the real ability of this group of foreign students was not in English, but in scientific and technological knowledge, and so they all tended to play only a supporting role in the spread of English in China.