“I Love Learning Chinese” in Georgia
It is the first time for Georgia to report Chinese Teaching Achievement in primary and middle schools. The report was hosted by Chinese Embassy in Georgia and collaborated by Confucius Institute of Free University of Tbilisi on March 22nd. 10 MTCSOL (Master of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages) students, together with their Chinese learners, and about 160 people including the school leaders, teachers and students from 20 middle schools, the representatives from Tbilisi State University and Free University of Tbilisi, key media reporters, participated in the report named “I Love Learning Chinese”. Chinese ambassador Mr. Chen Jianfu, and Gegeliqi, vice minister of Georgian Education, Science and Technology Ministry attended the report and made speeches respectively. They both highly appreciated the breakthrough of the Chinese volunteer teachers of LZU in their work and placed great expectations on the sustainable development of Chinese teaching program in Georgia.
Among the Chinese learners, the youngest is just at age 6, and the oldest is an over-50-year-old local teacher. The report involves various items, such as Chinese writing, paper-cuts, drawing, Chinese class demonstration, listing zodiac signs, poetry reading, and Chinese songs. Although they just learned Chinese for two months, and their pronunciation and intonation are not so authentic and fluently, they deeply infected the audience with attentive and passionate performances.
The report enormously aroused the young Georgian students’ interest in learning Chinese, and after the hard work of Confucius Institute and Chinese volunteer teachers, more and more local people have become interested in Chinese learning and Chinese culture, which will benefit the publication of Chinese culture in Georgia and further promote the mutual understanding and friendship between the two nations.
