Suggestion:

Are There More and More People Wanting to Learn Chinese?

Recently, a friend told me that in other countries, such as Korea, Singapore, Australia and the United states there are many school at which you can study Chinese. Apparently, it is now quite common for people all over the world to study Chinese. This surprised me as I never thought foreigners would show so much interest in China and the Chinese language. Is this really true?

Your entry was good! I thought you would find it useful to see how a native would write it. That's why I wrote a suggestion instead of just correcting what you wrote. 

I think that it is now quite common for foreigners to study not only Chinese at these kinds of school, but other languages as well. I think as the world becomes more and more globalised, more and more people will want to communicate with others who don't speak thier own language and will therefore want to study a different language. Futher, studying languages now is far easier that is was even 40 years ago, what with the internet and all the resources it offers! As for Chinese specifically, I think that many foreigners want to study Mandarin Chinese because they think it will help them get a good job in the future. :)