Teachers and Students of Transport and Telecommunication Institute wish you a happy New Year of the Ox
In the sound of firecrackers, in a hurry to go back home, we celebrate in the long-awaited Spring Festival. Every family enjoy their happy New Year. Even in the thick of the Spring Festival, volunteer teachers are still giving Chinese lessons to students diligently. How could the Chinese class during the Spring Festival be less than an introduction to our most important festival!
During the period of February 8, 2021 to February 19, 2021, the Chinese language course of Transport and Telecommunication Institute launched an online culture course with the theme of “Spring Festival”. The “Spring Festival” cultural course consists of three parts: the origin of the Spring Festival, the introduction of the customs, volunteer teacher Wu Yanli sharing her own celebration of Spring Festival and students sharing their own national festivals. Students are looking forward to the end of the epidemic and coming to China to feel the atmosphere of the Spring Festival. The volunteer teachers also thanked the students for sharing such colorful Latvian festivals, and welcome the students to China.
At the beginning of the course, Wu Yanli, the volunteer Chinese teacher, played two short films to give the students a preliminary understanding of the Spring Festival. The interesting and vivid short films made the students understand the origin, inheritance and customs of the Spring Festival, which aroused their interest in the Spring Festival. Then, teacher Wu Yanli divided the Spring Festival into three parts: before the Spring Festival, on the day of the Spring Festival and after the Spring Festival, and gave them a detailed introduction. For example, before the introduction of the Spring Festival, teacher introduced the “Spring Festival travel rush”, which is known as the largest annual human population migration, do Spring Festival shopping, pasting Spring Festival couplets and so on. The students were very curious about them and asked many interesting questions. After the introduction of Spring Festival, in order to make the students closer to feel the Spring Festival atmosphere, volunteer teachers WuYanLi shared her Spring Festival, such as real-time sharing her family reunion dinner with the students, her home decorations, Spring Festival gala, etc. And the students have also shared their status in real time with the teacher, as a snowy Latvia and their lovely kitten, and so on. In addition, Wu Yanli shared a documentary about the Spring Festival to the students, and let them watch it after class, so that the students could have a deeper understanding of the Spring Festival. Learning through sharing, isn’t it a happy thing?
In the next class, the students offered to share their own national holidays to the volunteer teachers. Students made PPTs and shared them in Chinese to the teacher in class. Through the introduction of students, teacher Wu Yanli learned about the origin, celebration forms, customs about Latvian festivals such as Latvian City Day, Latvian National Song and Dance Celebration Day, Latvian Celebration Day and even Irish St. Patrick’s Day. Teacher Wu Yanli said it is a happy thing to benefit herself in the teaching.
It is a meaningful and wonderful thing to learn about other cultures and histories while spreading Chinese culture. With more knowing about each other, there could be more understanding about other; With more understanding about each other, there could the world be more peaceful. I wish you all the best in your work and in good health in the Year of the Ox!
在一片片爆竹声中，在一个个匆忙回家的脚步中，我们迎来了期待已久的春节，家家户户开心过大年，好不热闹！即使在热热闹闹地春节中，志愿者老师们仍在勤勤恳恳地给学生们上中文课。那春节期间的中文课，怎能少得了对咱们最隆重节日的介绍呢！
在2021年2月8日至2021年2月19日期间，交通与电信大学的中文课程开展了以“春节”为主题的线上文化课程。此次“春节”文化课课程包括了三个部分：春节起源、习俗的介绍、志愿者教师邬艳丽分享自己的春节以及学生们分享自己国家的节日。学生们纷纷期待疫情快点过去，来中国感受春节气氛；志愿者教师也感谢同学们分享如此丰富多彩的拉脱维亚节日，并欢迎同学们来中国。
汉语教师志愿者邬艳丽在课程伊始播放两个小短片让同学们对春节有初步的了解，有趣而生动的小短片让学生们了解了春节的起源，传承，习俗等，这引起了学生们对于春节的兴趣。紧接着，邬艳丽教师将春节分为春节前，春节当天和春节后三个部分，并进行详细地介绍，如在介绍春节前，教师介绍了“春运”—被称为年度人类规模最大的人口迁移、办年货、贴春联等等，学生们对此感到
非常新奇和好奇，并提出了许多有趣的问题。在介绍完春节后，为了让学生们更近距离地感受春节气氛，志愿者教师邬艳丽分享了自己的春节，如跟同学们实时分享自己的年夜饭、家中春节装饰、春晚、回乡等等，学生们也纷纷跟老师实时分享自己的现状，如白雪皑皑的拉脱维亚和他们可爱的小猫咪等等。此外，邬艳丽教师还给学生们分享了关于春节的纪录片，让学生们在课后观看，让学生们对于春节有更深入地了解。寓教于乐，岂不乐哉！
在下一节课中，同学们主动提出要跟志愿者教师分享自己国家的节日。同学们纷纷制作了PPT，用中文在课上跟老师分享。通过学生的介绍，邬艳丽教师了解到了拉脱维亚的城市日、拉脱维亚全国歌舞庆祝日、拉脱维亚庆祝日、爱尔兰圣 帕克里克节等节日的来源、庆祝形式、没事、习俗等等。邬艳丽教师表示能在教学中与学生一起成长是一件幸福的事。
能在传播中国文化的同时也了解到他国文化和历史，是一件多么有意义及美好的事情。多一份了解，才能多一份理解；多一份理解，这世界才能多一些和平与安乐。在此佳节，祝大家工作顺利！身体健康！牛年行大运！
