How would you go about finding Chinese students who can speak farsi?

[geraldc]

Through work an interesting question has arisen. Do many language students in China study farsi, and how would you go about notifying them of job opportunities?

[roddy]

Very few, I'd imagine. At a guess the foreign language universities will have a small number of students though - see here for example. I'd rustle up a list of foreign languge universities and get in touch with them - however, you may find their students are already earmarked for careers in diplomacy and international espionage. Beida also seems to have Farsi courses.

[mr.stinky]

must it necessarily be a language student? there's a huge moslem population here, i'd

expect some of them at least would have farsi ability.

[gato]

Most of the Muslims in Xinjiang speak a Turkish dialect.

See this thread

http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=465&PN=1

Acctually, Muslims in China are made up of ten ethnic groups.

They are Hui, Uighurs, Khazaks, Kyrgys, Uzbek, Tatars, Tajiks, Salar, Sartars, and Bao'ans. The most distinctive features among these ethnic groups are 'language'.

Hui speak Madarin.

Uighurs, Khazaks, Kyrgys, Uzbek, Tatars, Tajiks and Salar speak Turkic languages. All these ethnic groups lives in Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region, excep Salar living in Qinghai Province.

Sartars and Bao' ans speak Mongolian language, living in Gansu Province.

Most of the China Muslims live in the northwest of China. But Hui Muslim communities can be found in each big cities of China.

[mr.stinky]

or try here?

http://farsi.meetup.com/cities/cn/