Xiaoqiao said|Han proficiency test is difficult to search for? The truth is...
"At the graduation ceremony, the principal announced that the student who ranked first in the exam came to the stage to receive the award, but after a few calls, the student slowly walked onto the stage. The teacher asked him if he was sick or did not hear clearly. The student said, I am not sick. I'm afraid other students didn't hear clearly."
Can you think that the story of this "Versailles" student is not a joke, but a sample listening test for the Chinese Proficiency Test?
A few days ago, the topic of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) was on the hot search again. After reading it, Xiaoqiao opened the Chinese test service website and prepared to find out.
According to reports, the HSK is divided into three parts: listening, reading, and writing. There are 6 levels in total. Each level corresponds to a different level of Chinese. The higher the level, the greater the difficulty.
HSK Level 1 is not only slow in listening and speaking, the test papers are mostly pictures, and the text is also marked with pinyin, which can be said to be very friendly to candidates.
The level 6 test questions are much more difficult, especially the writing part. Test takers are required to read a 1000-word essay. After 10 minutes, take the test paper back and repeat the essay in about 400 words on the answer sheet. It can be said to be a test of level. NS.
After reading the questions, Xiaoqiao couldn't help but think of foreigners who were learning Chinese. Before that, some netizens spit out sentence questions on the mock test papers of the HSK level 4 in the Q&A community Quora in the United States.
The author gave an example question: "Sale" and attached an example sentence: "Street vendors use Alipay to do business."
A netizen said, "I will collapse when I see the topic. If you have not lived in China, you will never know what'sales' and'Alipay' are."
Some enthusiastic netizens gave the formula: buy=buy, sell=sale, sale=buy and sell=do business......
In addition, a few other words also stumped netizens, such as scalpers-"Literally it seems to be talking about a kind of animal'cattle', but obviously it is not."
Data map: Chinese Cultural Center, Brussels, Exhibition of New Year Culture Section
Although Chinese is so difficult to learn, there are still many foreigners who understand Chinese literature clearly.
A Korean student studying Chinese medicine in China used 8 hours to understand a page of ancient text for his studies.
This year's Tokyo Olympics badminton men's singles champion, the badminton player Ansai Long from Denmark, not only speaks fluent Chinese, but also speaks tongue twisters in Chinese.
In order to board the Chinese space station, more and more foreign astronauts expect to come to China for training. European astronauts are stepping up to learn Chinese. At present, some astronauts in France, Germany, and Italy all speak fluent Chinese.
In addition, Pakistani uncles who do business in China, Egyptian students who can speak Chinese cross talk, and American boys who teach Chinese in Chengdu...
They have all become members of the global Chinese learning army.
As of the end of 2020, more than 180 countries and regions around the world have carried out Chinese language education, more than 70 countries have incorporated Chinese into their national education systems, and the number of foreigners learning Chinese has exceeded 20 million.
(Source of the manuscript: China Overseas Chinese Network WeChat Official Account; ID: qiaowangzhongguo; Source: Chinese Test Service Network, China News Network, China Overseas Chinese Network, etc.; Author: Xu Wenxin)