“Chinese Bridge” International Students Chinese Language Competition
“I would like to spoke for my Chinese language learning with a song……”, then a 28 year-old international student started singing the Chinese song “It not easy at all”, won people’s laugh and applause. 21st May, the 6th “Chinese Bridge” International Student Chinese Language Competition preliminaries were held in Xi’an and other places as well.
“I am Slim, I speak for Chinese language.” the 23 year-old Kazakhstan students started performing Dongbula for the judges and students with folk instruments after an introduction about himself. He said that during 4 years in China he leant Chinese and made friends, it was a funny experience.
When talking about the approaches of learning Chinese, Slim said frankly, “Nothing but talking with Chinese friends, it is fun but also learn something”
At Shanxi Normal University, 17 international students from 10 countries such as America, Korea, Mongolia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and so on competed their Chinese on the stage. President of International College of Chinese Language Zhang Jiancheng introduced that the competition was aimed at providing international students with platform to show their talents and opportunity to exchange ideas. The competition tests international students’ Chinese language and language learning abilities through self-introduction, talent show and answering judges’ questions three rounds.
In the competition, there were poem reciting, storytelling, tongue twister, and instrumental performance and so on, the international students humorous, witty, and versatile performance, and their careful and flawless speeches, won audiences’ applause and praises, and got the judges’ appreciation of and approval.
The famous contemporary calligrapher and cultural scholars, Mr. Zhang Ke said that the process you learn Chinese is which you accept the influence of Chinese culture, it would help to facilitate international student’s better understanding and spreading of Chinese culture, and help to establish bridge for Chinese learning and promote friendly exchanges between Chinese and foreigners.
The 6th “Chinese Bridge” International Students Chinese Language Competition was carried out jointly by CCTV, China Hanban, Headquarters of Confucius Institute; the contestants should be non-Chinese citizen and non-Chinese language speaking international students, and the contest contains preliminary and finals two parts.
The contest for Xi’an area appealed the participation of international student from
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shanxi Normal University, Xi’an International Studies University,
Northwestern Polytechnic University and Northwest University five universities ’international student.
In the 6 year, there were totally 20 thousand international students have participated in the “Chinese Bridge” International Students Chinese Language Competition. Chinese language contest is playing an increasingly important role in overseas Chinese promotion and Chinese culture spread.