Chinese Culture Introduction in Transport and Telecommunication Institute
Local time from September 23rd to October 10th, Chinese culture introduction had been held in Transport and Telecommunication Institute successfully. Rector of Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Mr. Igors Graurs, Director of lifelong learning center of transportation and telecommunication institute, Ms. Irina Bausova, Chinese volunteer teacher and about 200 students attended the lecture.
The topic of this speech was Chinese culture introduction. At first, the speaker, Wang Jiale who is Chinese volunteer teacher, introduced the Confucius Institute at University of Latvia Chinese partner university – South China Normal University. Then she introduced Chinese culture about capital Beijing, population, history, culture, festival and other aspects, which showed modern Chinese appearance. Finally, she introduced Chinese and Chinese character vividly and taught students simple Chinese greeting. The students tried to speak Chinese actively.
The speech coincided with Mid-autumn Day, the Chinese teacher, Wang Jiale, introduced the origin and customs of this festival and brought moon cakes to invite students to taste. She played some small videos about China,. Students were interested in these.
Transport and Telecommunication Institute is new educational institute provided with the Chinese language study program by Confucius Institute at University of Latvia in 2015. This series of speech are welcome by students, which is a good start for Chinese teaching. We hope that Chinese language study program will become better and better in Transport and Telecommunication Institute.
