The Chinese Language Course at Transport and Telecommunication Institute is going on smoothly

Since Beijing time on November 3, 2021, the Chinese Language Course at Transport and Telecommunication Institute has been going on smothly in the new semester.Although Chinese volunteer teacher could not arrive in Latvia as scheduled owing to the Covid-19 epidemic, Jelena Samoilenko, the person in charge of Chinese teaching in Transport and Telecommunication Institute, has been contacting with Chinese volunteer teacher Tang Jing through Email and they actively discussed the course arrangement, determined the course time, class division, student lists, and unanimously decided that the course will be set as the Basic Chinese Course for Adult. They also decided to get to class through the online teaching platform “e.Tsi.lv” of Transport and Telecommunication Institute. The teacher account and password are registered in advance to ensure that the Chinese course will be carried out as scheduled.

In order to attract students to join the Chinese class, Chinese volunteer teacher Tang Jing held a Chinese Introduction class for students of Transport and Telecommunication Institute at 00:00 Beijing time on November 3. This class is organized around two questions: What is Chinese class? What can we learn from Chinese lessons? First of all, the Chinese course is divided into two parts: Chinese comprehensive and Chinese culture. Chinese comprehensive part includes: language knowledge, pinyin, vocabulary, Chinese characters, theme teaching; The Chinese culture section has 15 cultural experience classes: Chinese Characters, Chinese Geography, Chinese dance, Contemporary China, Taoist Culture, Chinese Knot, Winter Solstice, Tea Culture, Laba Festival, wine Culture, Beijing Opera, Calligraphy Art, Spring Festival, Chinese Tourism, Lantern Festival. The students are very interested in it. At the end of the introduction class, Chinese teacher Tang Jing expressed her hope that students could join the Chinese class.

The first online Chinese course at Transport and Telecommunication Institute was successfully held at 22:00 Beijing time on November 4, 2021. In the class, Puzikova Alina talked with the Chinese teacher Tang Jing confidently and generously, told her reasons for learning Chinese and her experience of visiting Hainan Province, China. She said that she hopes to learn Chinese well and use Chinese well, and she would continue to attend Chinese classes. In this Chinese class, Teacher Tang Jing introduced The Chinese pinyin in a lively and interesting way, and then began to teach the initials and finals. The students mastered it quickly, and the pronunciation became more accurate through teaching and re-reading. Extended Chinese monosyllabic vocabulary and simple sentence exercises also stimulated students’ interest in learning Chinese.

At 22:00 Beijing time on November 9, 2021, the second Chinese course at Transport and Telecommunication Institute arrived as scheduled. In order to consolidate the results of last lesson, Chinese teacher Tang Jing helped the students to review firstly, “Are you ready? “I’m ready! Puzikova Alina’s face was filled with a confident smile, one after another clearly pronounced vowels, one after another Chinese monosyllabic word blurted out, thus the review part was carried out happily. However, the new contents also brings challenges to students. The gradually complicated vowels and gradually difficult two-syllable vocabularies made students feel upset. The Chinese teacher Tang Jing encouraged the students again and again, “You can”, “You said very well” and “try again”. Finally, with the joint efforts of the teacher and students, the new content was gradually absorbed and understood by students, and the students’ pronunciation became more and more accurate and clear.

It is in such a relaxed and happy learning atmosphere, Chinese volunteer teacher Tang Jing and the students enthusiastically interacted, learnt from each other. There will be a series of interesting Chinese lessons available for more students who are interested in Chinese……

交通与电信大学汉语课如期开展

北京时间2021年11月3日以来，交通与电信大学教学点陆续开展了新学期线上汉语课程。受疫情影响，汉语教师志愿者不能如期抵达拉脱维亚，交通与电信大学汉语课程负责人Jelena.Samoilenko早前就与对应教学点汉语教师唐静保持着邮件联系，双方积极商讨课程安排，协调课程时间、分班和学生名单等工作，最终一致决定将课程设置为成人初级汉语课，并使用交通与电信大学网络教学平台e.tsi.lv开展线上教学，并提前注册好教师账号、密码，以确保汉语课如期开展。

为吸引学生加入汉语课堂，汉语教师唐静于11月3日00:00为交通与电信大学的学生开展了汉语介绍课。介绍课围绕两个问题展开：汉语课是什么？能从汉语课中学到什么？首先，汉语课分为汉语综合、中国文化两部分。汉语综合部分有：语言知识、拼音、词汇、汉字、主题教学；中国文化部分涵盖有15次文化体验课，分别为：中国汉字、中国地理、中国舞、当代中国、道家文化、中国结、冬至日、茶文化、腊八节、酒文化、京剧、书法艺术、春节、中国旅游、元宵节，学生们对此很感兴趣。在介绍课即将结束时，汉语教师唐静表达了希望同学们加入汉语课堂的愿望。

由于此前准备工作充分，北京时间2021年11月4日22:00交通与电信大学第一节汉语课顺利开展。在课上，Puzikova Alina 同学自信大方地与汉语教师交谈，讲述了自己学习汉语的原因和曾经拜访中国海南省的经历，并表示希望能学好汉语、用好汉语，会坚持参加汉语课。此次中文课上，教师唐静用生动有趣的方式介绍了汉语拼音，并对此开始声韵母的教学，学生掌握得很快，发音也在一次次教读、复读中越发准确；扩展的汉语单音节词汇、简单的语句练习也激发了学生的学习兴趣。

北京时间2021年11月9日22:00，交通与电信大学第二次汉语课如期到来。为巩固上次课的学习成果，汉语教师唐静首先带领学生复习，“你准备好了吗？” “我准备好了！” Puzikova Alina同学脸上洋溢着自信的笑容，一个个发音清晰的声韵母，一个个脱口而出的汉语单音节词汇，复习环节就这样愉快地开展着。然而新学内容也给学生带来了挑战，逐渐复杂的韵母、逐渐困难的双音节词汇，使学生面露难色。汉语教师唐静一次次地鼓励学生“你可以的”“你说的很好”“再试一次”，最终，在师生的共同努力下，新学内容逐渐被学生吸收理解，学生发音也越来越准确清晰。

就是在这样轻松愉快的学习氛围下，汉语教师唐静与学生们热情互动、互相学习，未来还会有一堂堂有趣的汉语课、一个个对汉语产生兴趣的学生……