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By Wu Huixin |
April 25, 2012, Wednesday
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CHINESE language corner will become a fixture of the Hangzhou International Information Exchange Center, known as the Hi Center.
The first Chinese corner was held on Saturday and tens of Hangzhou expats participated.
It was the first Chinese language corner at the center and the conversational event will take place every month. Admission is free.
Each time the event will feature a topic related to social news or Chinese culture.
On Saturday the topic was "Searching for Spring" and a tea performance was held before the free discussion. A lecture in English and Chinese introduced Hangzhou's Longjing tea, one of the top 10 teas in China.
The next Chinese corner will be held at 2pm on May 19; the topic will be cartoons and animation. Hangzhou styles itself as the animation capital of China.
Volunteers from universities chat with foreigners.
"In my opinion, using what you have learned immediately is most important, and continuing to talk to Chinese friends does work," says Attul Jetha. The Briton says he has no difficulty in reading Chinese newspapers.
Lina Marcela Pineda from Columbia agrees. She arrived in China a year ago to learn Chinese and is now an international student at Zhejiang University. "I come to the Chinese corner to make Chinese friends and improve my Chinese," she says.
Nearly 10,000 expatriates live in Hangzhou. Universities and private language schools offer language courses to foreigners.
The center is located in the West Lake Expo Museum on Beishan Road.
Established in 2010, the nonprofit Hi Center promotes Hangzhou to foreigners and holds culturalevents every month.
The first Chinese corner was held on Saturday and tens of Hangzhou expats participated.
It was the first Chinese language corner at the center and the conversational event will take place every month. Admission is free.
Each time the event will feature a topic related to social news or Chinese culture.
On Saturday the topic was "Searching for Spring" and a tea performance was held before the free discussion. A lecture in English and Chinese introduced Hangzhou's Longjing tea, one of the top 10 teas in China.
The next Chinese corner will be held at 2pm on May 19; the topic will be cartoons and animation. Hangzhou styles itself as the animation capital of China.
Volunteers from universities chat with foreigners.
"In my opinion, using what you have learned immediately is most important, and continuing to talk to Chinese friends does work," says Attul Jetha. The Briton says he has no difficulty in reading Chinese newspapers.
Lina Marcela Pineda from Columbia agrees. She arrived in China a year ago to learn Chinese and is now an international student at Zhejiang University. "I come to the Chinese corner to make Chinese friends and improve my Chinese," she says.
Nearly 10,000 expatriates live in Hangzhou. Universities and private language schools offer language courses to foreigners.
The center is located in the West Lake Expo Museum on Beishan Road.
Established in 2010, the nonprofit Hi Center promotes Hangzhou to foreigners and holds culturalevents every month.
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