The Chinese Language Day at the Faculty of Philology and Intercultural Communication
The Chinese Language Day at the Faculty of Philology and Intercultural Communication
On April 19, 2022 at the Faculty of Philology and Intercultural Communication, within the framework of the Days of Science, an annual traditional Phonetic competition in Chinese was held among 1st-year students of the areas of training "Pedagogical Education" training profiles "Foreign language (first)" and "Foreign language (second)" and "Linguistics" profile "Translation and Translation Studies".The jury consisted of Antonova N.A., deputy director of educational work, teacher of foreign languages of the gymnasium No. 9, Marchenko D.K., teacher of the Chinese language of the MOU "Engineering School of Komsomolsk-on-Amur", Remizova Yu.A., the head of the language school "Alex", Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
The phonetic competition was held in 3 stages: "Readers' Competition", "Reading tongue twisters", "Theoretical competition".
Four students took part in the "Reading Contest". Each participant recited Xu Zhimo's poem "Farewell to Cambridge Bridge" by heart. The jury evaluated the reading according to the following criteria: pronunciation, intonation, expressiveness.
Upon completion, the places were distributed as follows:
1st place – Valeria Azorkina (POia-13), Nadezhda Nefedova (LG-19)
2nd place – Ksenia Tabayeva (LG-19)
3rd place – Yulia Stukonog (POia-13)
At the stage of "Reading tongue twisters", students demonstrated a high level of fluent reading of three tongue twisters in Chinese.
Competition results:
1st place: Polina Salnikova (POia-13)
2nd place: Nefedova Nadezhda (LG-19)
3rd place: Kholod Elvira (POia-13)
The final stage of the "Theoretical Competition", which took place in the form of a quiz, included questions on the knowledge of theoretical aspects of the phonetics of the Chinese language. As a result , the prizes were divided among following students:
1st place: Valentina Godovnikova (POia-13)
2nd place: Polina Salnikova (POia-13)
3rd place: Valentina Grunskaya (POia-13)
Congratulations to the winners and wish the students further success in mastering the Chinese language!