NPU Oversea Student Enters the Semifinal of Chinese Bridge 2014

On May 5th, Shaanxi preliminary contest for CCTV 2014 Chinese Bridge—Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreigners was successfully held at Shaanxi Normal University. Through many rounds of severe competitions, an Italian student, Dario Marotta, from NPU won the semi-final.

The contest mainly tested the competitors’ in pronunciations, intonations, conversations, and debating, to review their  language competenceand awareness of culture and life. After hard competition, all together 5 participants entered the semi-final, among whom was the NPU Italian student Dario Marotta, who impressed all the judges and the audience present by his solid Chinese foundation, rich knowledge in Chinese culture, and excellent live performance.

Testing Chinese characters and Chinese culture, the Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreigners delves deeply the profound content of Chinese culture. And to cater for more enjoyment and knowledge, it has also enhanced the real life and practical elements in the competition, thus displaying the charms of Chinese culture from multiple dimensions and promoting foreigners’ enthusiasm in learning Chinese. NPU has sent contestants to the competition for 7 years successively. Through selecting the distinguished oversea students of the school, and assigning an experienced Chinese teacher to coach them, NPU has striven hard to achieve grand results in the competition so as to demonstrate NPU’s fruitful achievements in international education.