Latvia’s first “Chinese Corner” in 2019 was successfully held
2019年3月7日拉脱维亚大学人文学院四楼汉语角活动再次顺利举行，参加了此次活动的有来自孔子学院的志愿者老师，里加理工大学学习拉语的中国学生，拉大人文学院的大学生和里加文化中学的高中生一共30多人，大家围绕的主题是 “快速说话”，毕竟在学习外语的时候口语是最难的部分，很多人都没有语伴。所以，通常人们会很害羞去说他们正在学习的语言，“快速说话”解决了这一问题，所有的学生面对面坐着的时候都会互相讨论各种话题，中国人说拉语，拉国人说汉语，虽然大家交流起来并不是那么顺利，但是互为对方的老师也是一件很快乐的事。除此以外，里加文化中学的很多高中生虽然才刚开始学习汉语，能够用汉语问的问题还不多，但是这样的实战经验，让他们都觉得很过瘾，一位学生说：“我喜欢中国的文化，觉得它很有意思。所以我今天来这里了，因为我想了解更多的跟中国有关的事情”。也有一些汉语讲得十分流利的汉语学习爱好者，这个活动既让他们获得了与老朋友见面用汉语聊天的机会，也可以让他们把自己的学习经历分享给初次学习汉语的同学，对于学习拉语的中国朋友来说，这项活动也是很有意义的，因为他们可以找到语伴一起练习拉语。很多拉脱维亚的学生都对中国人印象深刻，他们惊讶地发现，现在已经有这么多的年轻中国人能够说好拉语了，这真是一件很让人自豪的事情！这次汉语角活动又一次证明了越来越多的拉脱维亚人对汉语和中国的文化是感兴趣的，他们也希望这种活动能激励他们继续努力学习自己心爱的语言——汉语。（贝思婷，潘尼卡）
On March 7, 2019, Chinese Corner event once again was successfully held on the fourth floor at Faculty of Humanities of University of Latvia. Volunteer teachers from the Confucius Institute, Chinese students studying at Riga Technical University, students from the Faculty of Humanities and students from Riga Culture Middle School took part in, together more than 30 participants. The theme was “Speed Talking”. After all, speaking is the hardest part when learning foreign languages, many people don’t have language partners. Therefore, people are usually very shy to speak language, which they are learning. “Speed talking” solves this problem. All students discuss various topics, while sitting face to face. Chinese speak Latvian, and Latvians speak Chinese. Although not everyone communicate that smoothly, it is a very exciting thing to be teachers of each other. In addition, many high school students of Riga Culture Middle School have just started learning Chinese, so they were not able to ask that much questions in Chinese. However, such practical experience made them feel very satisfied. One student said: “I like Chinese culture, I think it is very interesting, so I am here today because I want to learn more about China.” There were also some Chinese language learners, who already speak very fluently. This activity not only allowed them to meet with old friends to chat in Chinese, but also made them able to share their experience of language learning. For Chinese friends, who learn Latvian, this activity was also very significant, because they could find a language partner to practice Latvian together. Many Latvian students were very impressed by that, surprised to find, that there are so many young Chinese people, who can speak Latvian that well. This is really a very proud thing! This time Chinese Corner event once again proved that more and more Latvians are interested in Chinese and Chinese culture. They also hope that this activity will encourage them to continue studying their beloved language – Chinese. (Kristīne Baltpurviņa, Veronika Pankratova)
