Source: People's Daily - International Channel
People's Daily News On March 1, at the opening ceremony of the "Chinese Bridge - Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience" held at Tianjin Foreign Chinese University, more than 160 students from nearly 20 countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Portugal, Japan, Australia, Egypt and so on gathered online. The youngest is only 9 years old and the oldest is 76 years old. Rong Rong, a teacher at the School of International Media, opened a vivid first lesson for the students. Although teachers and students are in all parts of the world and span different time zones, the classroom atmosphere is very active, the interaction is frequent, and they experience the charm of language and culture in exchange and learning. After that, the trainees also carried out various forms of courses such as online cloud tours, experience interaction, and cultural exchanges, and experienced the charm of China's traditional intangible heritage culture.
In recent years, the "Chinese fever" has continued to heat up around the world. At the opening ceremony of the first "International Chinese Education Exchange Week" held in December last year, Vice Minister of Education Tian Xuejun announced that more than 70 countries around the world have incorporated Chinese into the national education system, and more than 4,000 foreign universities have opened Chinese courses. According to rough statistics, about 25 million people are currently learning Chinese outside China, and nearly 200 million people have learned and used Chinese. On January 25 this year, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Spanish government announced that Chinese officially become the official language of the UNWTO. This marks the further enhancement of the authoritative effectiveness of the Chinese as an official text in international exchanges and the credibility of international exchanges.
According to the "Chinese Bridge" organizer Of Chinese and Foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation Center, a series of "Chinese Bridge" cloud group projects held this year have been warmly welcomed by young people from all over the world.
At the "Chinese Bridge" online group exchange project "Online Winter Camp for Utah Middle School Students" hosted by Songshan Shaolin Wushu Vocational College, 75 campers from Utah, 159 volunteers from the college and teachers from both China and the United States gathered in the cloud to share the feelings of online exchange and learning in the past 15 days. Student Bena said: "I learned the advantages of Kung Fu, the benefits of tea and how Chinese medicine treats (diseases), and also learned how to use WeChat, Taobao, Shared Bicycles, Didi Taxi and Meituan. Thank you very much for this winter camp activity, let us know a lot of cultural knowledge, I hope that after the epidemic is over, we can go to China to learn and exchange. ”
Stacy, director of the Department of Education of Utah, said that the successful holding of the "Chinese Bridge" online winter camp activity provides more opportunities for students to further learn about Chinese culture, and hopes to hold more such activities in the future.
More than 100 EMI secondary school students participated in the UAE "Chinese Bridge" online group exchange project held by East China Normal University. The students not only shared their learning experience in Shanghai, but also experienced the specially designed two cultural courses of "Campus Exploration" and "Food Culture". The course invited international students and Chinese teachers to jointly appear in the school to introduce the campus culture, which fully demonstrated the international characteristics of East China Normal University and the importance attached to Chinese language education.
The UAE Ministry of Education spoke highly of the event and plans to incorporate the "Chinese Bridge" online group exchange program into the learning content of public school students' Chinese inside and outside the classroom, which will further enrich students' Chinese learning resources.
The two-week "Chinese Bridge" online winter camp held by Ludong University uses a combination of live webcasting and video courses to carry out language and cultural learning and cultural experience activities. At the same time, combined with the cultural characteristics of students and the level of Chinese, the project curriculum strives to be targeted and diversified, and at the same time ensures the smooth progress of the course through the form of volunteer mutual assistance.
At the closing ceremony of the Saudi University Student Group Exchange Program of the "Chinese Bridge" Online Winter Camp of the Central University for Nationalities, Saudi students also actively expressed their learning feelings. Classmate Lucia said, "I'm glad I met you. In addition to the exchanges, I also learned about China's development. I love everything about this course. I also really like learning Chinese, although I used to think that learning Chinese difficult, but now I think it is not difficult. Thank you guys!"
Abed Abid, director of the Chinese Culture and Art Exchange Center at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, said that the language and culture course designed by the project was very interesting, allowing students to learn knowledge in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. The students are very active and very happy to receive the certificate of completion of the Central University for Nationalities, and hope to have such an opportunity next time.
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics undertook the Italian camp of the "Chinese Bridge" online winter camp, and Yanshan University undertook the "Chinese Bridge" online group project "Winter Camp of Chinese Culture General Studies Class". Both of these projects
At the graduation ceremony, the students also expressed their gratitude to the Chinese institutions for carefully arranging courses for the students at such a difficult time.
At the closing ceremony of the "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Cultural Profile Online Winter Camp hosted by Inner Mongolia Normal University, the trainees said in their experience that this online course form met their desire to learn Chinese. Everyone is very interested in China's culture and language, and hopes that in the near future, they will be able to come to Inner Mongolia, China, personally feel the development and prosperity of China's economy and society, and become a messenger of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.