US student ambassadors ready to study Chinese at NCKU - Msn News
中央社訊息服務20140702 17:20:02)National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in southern Taiwan, hosted an opening ceremony of the Taiwan-United States Sister Relations Alliance (TUSA) Summer Scholarship Program on July 1 to welcome the students coming from America. Most of them visited Taiwan for the very first time.
A total of 39 American students from 33 universities in 38 states participate in the TUSA program from July 1 to August 22, according to Wang Wei-Yung, dean of College of Liberal Arts, NCKU, who attended the ceremony and extended his warm welcome to the students.
John Yeh representing the executive committee of the TUSA program said at the ceremony that “I hope they will have a successful summer not only learning Chinese but learning about Taiwan culture and making friends in and outside the program.”
Catherine Laporte-Oshiro, who is currently a graduate student at Oxford University majoring in China studies said, “This is a fantastic opportunity to improve my Chinese, which I haven’t had a lot of opportunities to do while in England.”
“I’ve never been to Taiwan so I’m really excited about the activities outside the classroom as well getting to know some Taiwanese students, eating food which I hear is great, traveling some, learning about the culture and the history,” added
Laporte-Oshiro.
Shoshana A. Schoenfeld is a 19-year-old student from University of Chicago coming to NCKU to study Chinese. She said, “I’d really like to learn more Chinese and hopefully learn a lot about Taiwan and people here.”
To build closer friendships and understanding between people of the United States and those of Taiwan, the student ambassadors from the States will participate in a series of Mandarin (Chinese) language classes, cultural learning, cultural tours, and lectures.
The program will cover language classes totaling 120 hours, according to the Chinese Language Center at NCKU.
Also, the students will participate in 14 cultural courses on Taiwanese culture introduction, Chinese painting, Chinese Opera, Chinese cuisine, seal engraving, and tea ceremony.
Trips to historical and ecological sites in Tainan, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Tzu Chi Senior High School in Hualien, and Kaohsiung are also included.
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A total of 39 American students from 33 universities in 38 states participate in the TUSA program from July 1 to August 22, according to Wang Wei-Yung, dean of College of Liberal Arts, NCKU, who attended the ceremony and extended his warm welcome to the students.
John Yeh representing the executive committee of the TUSA program said at the ceremony that “I hope they will have a successful summer not only learning Chinese but learning about Taiwan culture and making friends in and outside the program.”
Catherine Laporte-Oshiro, who is currently a graduate student at Oxford University majoring in China studies said, “This is a fantastic opportunity to improve my Chinese, which I haven’t had a lot of opportunities to do while in England.”
“I’ve never been to Taiwan so I’m really excited about the activities outside the classroom as well getting to know some Taiwanese students, eating food which I hear is great, traveling some, learning about the culture and the history,” added
Laporte-Oshiro.
Shoshana A. Schoenfeld is a 19-year-old student from University of Chicago coming to NCKU to study Chinese. She said, “I’d really like to learn more Chinese and hopefully learn a lot about Taiwan and people here.”
To build closer friendships and understanding between people of the United States and those of Taiwan, the student ambassadors from the States will participate in a series of Mandarin (Chinese) language classes, cultural learning, cultural tours, and lectures.
The program will cover language classes totaling 120 hours, according to the Chinese Language Center at NCKU.
Also, the students will participate in 14 cultural courses on Taiwanese culture introduction, Chinese painting, Chinese Opera, Chinese cuisine, seal engraving, and tea ceremony.
Trips to historical and ecological sites in Tainan, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Tzu Chi Senior High School in Hualien, and Kaohsiung are also included.
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