China News Service, Toronto, May 6-The "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students in British Columbia, Canada, will be held in the cloud on May 4.
The competition is sponsored by the Education and Cultural Section of the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver and hosted by the Vancouver "Chinese Bridge" Club.
The Chinese Consul General in Vancouver, Tong Xiaoling, said that at the venue of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, we gave the theme of this year's "Chinese Bridge" competition an extended meaning of "Winter Olympics and Me".
Let the Olympics, the world's most important sports event, and Chinese, the world's most-spoken language, perfectly combine the two to encourage more Canadians to learn Chinese.
Cyndi McLenod, president of the Vancouver "Chinese Bridge" club, said that the "Chinese Bridge" club established in 2020 will regularly organize online and on-site activities to promote and improve the learning experience of all Chinese learners in British Columbia and other regions.
Champion, runner-up and runner-up in the competition.
Photo courtesy of the Chinese Consulate-General in Vancouver
"Learning Chinese, walking into Chinese culture, and overcoming the language barrier, I found that the distance between you and me is not that far away," Dashan, the China-Canada Goodwill Ambassador, said to the contestants, "Chinese is a bridge and lives up to the time."
In this competition, 13 contestants from the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Victoria University, Fraser Valley University, Douglas College and other universities and colleges participated in the finals.
In the speech, the contestants shared their stories in Chinese, told about their love for Chinese language and participation in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, as well as their feelings of helping each other and helping each other in the world, and interpreting the theme of "Chinese as a bridge, the world is one family".
Erin Mastes from the University of British Columbia won the first prize of the competition; Alex Doonanco of the University of British Columbia and Jia Nguyen Simon Fraser University won the second prize; Isaiah Johnson, Tara Matthews, University of Victoria, Constance De Bruin, Fraser Valley University, Simon Fraser University Robert Francis Neumann won the third prize.
Other contestants won awards for excellence.
The online final was hosted by Wang Hui, Education Consul of the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver.
Wu Lizhu, President of the Canadian Chinese Language Teaching Association, Wang Qian, Director of Chinese Language Courses at the University of British Columbia, Tian Jun, Director of the Chinese Department of the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria, and Qu Yanfeng, Director of the Language and Culture Department of Kwantland University of Technology, served as judges.