NCKU holds event celebrating Chinese Year of the Sheep with international students
Tainan, Taiwan, February 12, 2015
The traditional holiday Chinese Lunar New Year is around the corner. It is the Year of the Sheep according to Chinese zodiac. More than 300 international students gather at the Chinese Language Center (CLC) of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, during the lunch time today for a spring gala, celebrating the coming Year of the Sheep.
The international students from nearly 30 countries including Japan, Korea, United States, Canada, France, Germany, Swaziland, Paraguay, and Australia have participated in dumpling making and spring couplet writing.
“The center has fostered cultural understanding through education and fun,” according to NCKU CLC Director Rong-Fu Wu who added that a spring couplet is a pair of lines of poetry expressing happy and hopeful thoughts for the coming year.
He said, “We have arranged Chinese dumpling making, Chinese calligraphy writing for international students to understand and appreciate the celebration of Chinese New Year and at the same time offer opportunities for them to practice the language.”
Laurie Cottet who is a 21-year-old French girl speaks good Chinese and happily shows her writing of spring couplet, “心想事成,” to her teachers. She said, the teachers here are very kind and friendly. “We are like a family here at CLC,” she added.
Mikhail Isaac from Saint Kitts & Nevis had fun in calligraphy. “I like to draw. Originally, I thought calligraphy would be easy. But after trying it out, I find it is not easy at all,” he smiled and said,” It helps me to appreciate the culture more.”
“I feel that everything I learn here is very relevant and very useful,” said Carrie Davies from Canada who finds her passion in learning the language. She has been studying Chinese for about six years. Taking only one semester here at CLC she really appreciates the teachers and she finds the teaching methodologies that used here very helpful.
Another Canadian student Emily Takara had started her first Chinese class at CLC a year ago. “I think the CLC does a great job in creating culture out of the activities for the students. It’s not just a place we can learn the language but we can understand a little bit more about Taiwanese culture.”
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The traditional holiday Chinese Lunar New Year is around the corner. It is the Year of the Sheep according to Chinese zodiac. More than 300 international students gather at the Chinese Language Center (CLC) of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, during the lunch time today for a spring gala, celebrating the coming Year of the Sheep.
The international students from nearly 30 countries including Japan, Korea, United States, Canada, France, Germany, Swaziland, Paraguay, and Australia have participated in dumpling making and spring couplet writing.
“The center has fostered cultural understanding through education and fun,” according to NCKU CLC Director Rong-Fu Wu who added that a spring couplet is a pair of lines of poetry expressing happy and hopeful thoughts for the coming year.
He said, “We have arranged Chinese dumpling making, Chinese calligraphy writing for international students to understand and appreciate the celebration of Chinese New Year and at the same time offer opportunities for them to practice the language.”
Laurie Cottet who is a 21-year-old French girl speaks good Chinese and happily shows her writing of spring couplet, “心想事成,” to her teachers. She said, the teachers here are very kind and friendly. “We are like a family here at CLC,” she added.
Mikhail Isaac from Saint Kitts & Nevis had fun in calligraphy. “I like to draw. Originally, I thought calligraphy would be easy. But after trying it out, I find it is not easy at all,” he smiled and said,” It helps me to appreciate the culture more.”
“I feel that everything I learn here is very relevant and very useful,” said Carrie Davies from Canada who finds her passion in learning the language. She has been studying Chinese for about six years. Taking only one semester here at CLC she really appreciates the teachers and she finds the teaching methodologies that used here very helpful.
Another Canadian student Emily Takara had started her first Chinese class at CLC a year ago. “I think the CLC does a great job in creating culture out of the activities for the students. It’s not just a place we can learn the language but we can understand a little bit more about Taiwanese culture.”
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