Zsuzsanna Karsai is the first European to be recruited by the Confucius Institute among graduates of the master's program on teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages, and she's now teaching Chinese in Budapest.

"It's not an easy test," Karsai says about the exam she took in Beijing in June. "You have to give a demonstration class, explaining some grammar points and Chinese culture."

For the past two years, Karsai has studied at Fudan University in Shanghai with Chinese students, learning to teach Chinese to foreign speakers.