The Confucius Institute at LU successfully held a lecture on “Chinese Learning and Career Development”

On March 29, Latvia time, Michelle Belkina, an alumnus of the Confucius Institute at the University of Latvia and an outstanding employee of Latvia MGI Tech, gave a lecture on Chinese language learning and career development at Confucius Institute. This lecture is mainly aims at middle school students and college students who are learning Chinese in Latvia, aiming to share Chinese learning experience with Chinese learners and introduce the connection between Chinese learning and career development, all audiences responded very well finally.

Michelle graduated from Latvian University with a major in Chinese language and culture in 2020. She once worked as a part-time Chinese teacher and went to Beijing to participate in cultural exchange projects many times. She is currently an excellent employee of Latvia MGI Tech. In the lecture, she shared her Chinese learning experience, professional experience, opportunities brought by learning Chinese, soft and hard skills at work, teamwork and personal development, etc… Michelle’s glorious learning background and work experience made audience envious.

“If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.”Michelle introduced that being able to join Latvia MGI Tech benefited from the empowerment of Chinese language. It is fluent Chinese that brought her good job opportunities and it was a win-win move for her career development and enterprise development.

Michelle encouraged the Chinese learners present, “It will be difficult to learn Chinese at the beginning, but as long as you persevere, you will eventually be able to speak Chinese fluently, and Chinese will one day help your career development.” Michelle felt that the Chinese government strongly supports Chinese language learners to exchange and study in China. Exchange programs such as Chinese language summer camps and government scholarships are excellent opportunities. “We should seize all opportunities while we are young.” She also guided Chinese language learners to formulate their own “Small goals” for Chinese language learning and career development, making each goal specific and actionable, and interacting with the audience at the scene, encouraging everyone to write down their “goals for tomorrow, one year later, five years later, and ten years later” on paper..

To this day, Michelle still misses every bit of her time in China,“Chinese people love to travel, love to take pictures, and are surprised to hear that foreigners can speak Chinese”, These are Michelle’s “Chinese memories”.

Chinese will always empower you one day, please just work hard, let us wait and see the result.

当地时间2023年3月29日，拉脱维亚大学孔子学院校友、中国华大智造公司优秀员工蜜雪儿（Michelle Belkina）在孔子学院本部开设“汉语学习与职业发展”讲座，本次讲座主要面向拉脱维亚学习汉语的中学生和大学生，旨在向汉语学习者们分享汉语学习经历、介绍汉语学习与职业发展的联系，听众反响极大。

蜜雪儿2020年毕业于拉脱维亚大学中国语言和文化专业，曾兼职担任中文教师、多次前往北京参加文化交流项目，目前是中国华大智造公司的一名优秀员工。在讲座中，她分享了自身的汉语学习经历、职业经历、学习汉语带来的机遇、工作的软实力和硬实力、团队合作与个人发展等等……蜜雪儿光彩的学习背景和工作经历使现场听众羡慕不已。

工欲善其事，必先利其器，蜜雪儿介绍到，能加入中国华大智造公司得益于汉语赋能，是流利的汉语带给她良好的工作机遇，对自己的职业发展和企业发展来说，是双赢之举。

蜜雪儿鼓励在场的汉语学习者们，“刚开始学汉语会觉得很难，但只要坚持下去，最终一定会说一口流利的汉语，而汉语终有一天会助力你的职业发展。”蜜雪儿感慨到，中国政府大力支持汉语学习者到中国交流学习，汉语夏令营、政府奖学金等交换项目是绝佳的机会，要趁年轻抓住一切机遇，她还引导汉语学习者们要制定自己的汉语学习和职业发展“小目标”，做到每一个目标具体化，行动化，并与现场听众互动，鼓励大家在纸上写下自己“明天、一年后、五年后、十年后的目标”。

时至今日，蜜雪儿仍然想念在中国的点点滴滴，中国人爱旅游、爱拍照、听到外国人会说汉语之后会很惊讶，这些都是蜜雪儿的“中国记忆”。

汉语总会在某一天为你赋能加码，请只管努力，结果让我们拭目以待。