International Students Celebrate Lunar New Year At NCKU-wn
At noon, International students gathered at the Chinese Language Center (CLC) of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, for a very special event hosted by CLC to celebrate the coming Lunar New Year.
They practice writing spring festival couplets and making dumplings on Monday, January 23, to mark the important Chinese New Year tradition in Taiwan
According to CLC, each year more than 1,000 foreign students from 50 countries enroll in Chinese courses at CLC. One quarter from Japan, the second majority from United States. Numbers is increasing every year.
CLC has fostered cultural understanding through education and fun among international students.
The teachers at CLC arranged Chinese dumpling making, Chinese calligraphy writing for international students to understand and appreciate the celebration of Lunar New Year and at the same time offer opportunities for them to practice the language.
Johan Mogelvang from Demark who has studied Chinese in CLC for more than four months said that he had learned a little Chinese in high school but it turned out to be not sufficient to communicate with people when travelling.
'So I came to Taiwan expecting to have better Chinese and be able to speak it,' said Mogelvang.
Mogelvang had tried the dumplings and said that he was impressed by the taste.
'It is real fun to make dumplings,' claimed Asger Hansen, another student from Denmark.
Mogelvang and Hansen planned to spend the long vocation exploring Taiwan with their friends during the Chinese New Year holiday.
Hansen, who had a study trip to Taiwan last year for one and half week with his classmates, said, 'My teacher in Denmark highly recommended us to come to Tainan to study Chinese in NCKU.'
Clement Gennetay, a 23-year-old student from French, who has learned Chinese for four months, talked about his motivation of learning Chinese.
Planned to stay in Taiwan studying Chinese for one year, Gennetay has a Taiwanese girl friend and he will spend this Chinese New Year holiday with his girlfriend's family.
'Chinese culture is always interesting to me since I was a child,' said Gennetay who had fun in writing spring festival couplets and he even drew a rooster on the couplets.
They practice writing spring festival couplets and making dumplings on Monday, January 23, to mark the important Chinese New Year tradition in Taiwan
According to CLC, each year more than 1,000 foreign students from 50 countries enroll in Chinese courses at CLC. One quarter from Japan, the second majority from United States. Numbers is increasing every year.
CLC has fostered cultural understanding through education and fun among international students.
The teachers at CLC arranged Chinese dumpling making, Chinese calligraphy writing for international students to understand and appreciate the celebration of Lunar New Year and at the same time offer opportunities for them to practice the language.
Johan Mogelvang from Demark who has studied Chinese in CLC for more than four months said that he had learned a little Chinese in high school but it turned out to be not sufficient to communicate with people when travelling.
'So I came to Taiwan expecting to have better Chinese and be able to speak it,' said Mogelvang.
Mogelvang had tried the dumplings and said that he was impressed by the taste.
'It is real fun to make dumplings,' claimed Asger Hansen, another student from Denmark.
Mogelvang and Hansen planned to spend the long vocation exploring Taiwan with their friends during the Chinese New Year holiday.
Hansen, who had a study trip to Taiwan last year for one and half week with his classmates, said, 'My teacher in Denmark highly recommended us to come to Tainan to study Chinese in NCKU.'
Clement Gennetay, a 23-year-old student from French, who has learned Chinese for four months, talked about his motivation of learning Chinese.
Planned to stay in Taiwan studying Chinese for one year, Gennetay has a Taiwanese girl friend and he will spend this Chinese New Year holiday with his girlfriend's family.
'Chinese culture is always interesting to me since I was a child,' said Gennetay who had fun in writing spring festival couplets and he even drew a rooster on the couplets.
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