In recent years there has been growing interest in studying Southeast Asia cultures, but since it would be difficult to establish independent departments for all of them, sinology departments at some universities now offer Thai, Korean, Mongolian, Vietnamese, Manchurian and other languages as elective courses.
近幾年來，由於研究東南亞文化漸成風氣，但一一獨立設系所又有其困難，因此，有些大學漢學系，除了中文之外，甚至提供泰語、韓語、蒙古語、越南、滿州語等語言課程供學生選修。