Israeli secondary school students experience Chinese lessons
International online report (reporter Sun Lingli) on the 25th local time, Tel Aviv Chinese Cultural Center held an offline experience activity for Israeli middle school students, including Chinese dance, Chinese teaching, Yang Liuqing watercolor painting, Chinese tourism geography, rich and colorful content, was warmly welcomed by the students.
Tao Chen, director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Tel Aviv, said that this is the first offline activity held in the cultural center since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Israel in 2020, and Israeli middle school students have actively participated and achieved good results.
Tao Chen said: "Since the epidemic has been over two years, we have held a lot of online activities, but we still hope to let local people get in touch with Chinese culture as soon as possible. So, in cooperation with some middle schools in Israel this time, we invited 20 local middle school students in grades 10 to 12 to experience Chinese culture at the Tel Aviv Chinese Cultural Center. They are very interested in Chinese culture, and they hope to further understand and explore the culture related to China, and also hope to have the opportunity to travel to China in the future, learn Chinese, learn Chinese instruments and dance. We also hope to take this opportunity to let them experience Chinese culture in person, further stimulate their interest in learning Chinese culture, and let more students understand China. At the same time, I also hope to let them know about the Tel Aviv Chinese Cultural Center as a window to display Chinese culture, and I hope that they can come to our center's activities more. ”
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During the day's activities, Wang Wenqi, a volunteer at the Confucius Institute at Tel Aviv University, gave a Chinese lesson to Israeli middle school students, allowing them to appreciate the charm of Chinese and Chinese culture through the comparison with Israeli culture.
Wang Wenqi said: "Culture and language are inseparable. Secondly, I also want to tell the students that Chinese is not difficult, and I want to break their stereotypes and create an atmosphere where Chinese is very interesting and not difficult to learn, and to be able to recognize some different ways of thinking. This is the first time I have given a lecture to a high school student in Israel, and the students have been very active and proactive in interacting with me in class, which I did not expect that the students could cooperate with me so actively, and I felt very happy. It is a very happy thing to spread our culture and language more and spread it to every age group. ”
Naama, an 18-year-old girl who participated in the event, loves to dance and dances with Chinese dance teachers. Naama said her sister had studied Chinese, so she also liked China. "Chinese class was very interesting, learned about Chinese culture, learned about the differences between Chinese and Israeli cultures, and had a lot of information. The dance class was also very fun, seeing some different Chinese dances, we learned to do various movements and danced, very happy. ”
Pinghaus, 17, enjoys Chinese tourism geography classes, his grandfather often travels to China for business, and he has heard songs about the Yellow River before. Isaac, a 11th grader who also loves Chinese geography, says that studying geography will give him a better understanding of the earth we live on. "I like to learn about Chinese geography and Chinese culture, it is always good to know more about people around the world, expand your knowledge, understand different regions and people, and you will be able to fully understand the world we live in."
Amir, a 12th-grader from a high school in Jerusalem, said he was impressed by the experience at the Chinese Cultural Center in Tel Aviv.
Amir said: "We experienced a lot, we learned Chinese with Chinese teachers, and also learned Chinese dance, which was very good and interesting, at first we were a little shy, and then we relaxed, although it was still a little difficult, we overcame the difficulties and finally danced easier and easier." The teacher is very good, and the Mongolian dances and songs she dances are very beautiful. We also have watercolor lessons and the drawings are beautiful, we have a set of tools with lots of brushes and paints, and we have a video that teaches us how to paint, like Chinese. It was a very good learning experience, hard but fun. ”