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It’s a raining day in Auckland, but a winning day for Alice, the Yr 10 student from Mt Roskill Grammar School, who won a third prize in this year’s Auckland regional #chinesebridge speech competition. Congratulations to Alice and her teacher Karen Lei. CI deputy director Prof Bing Zhou presented the award at school today. #汉语桥
Our #ChineseBridge prize-giving school tour started from Auckland's Western Springs College this Monday. The second prize winner Rio received his trophy🏆, certificate, and a Huawei tablet from CI's general manager Janine Chin. Congratulations to Rio and his teacher Jessica. (More prize-giving news are coming.) ##汉语桥
Another busy weekend at CI’s Pembridge House, the online CTCSOL interview test is taking place. Good luck to all the exam takers.
As the schools are entering to the last week in Term 2, we are going to visit some local schools, at the assembly or into their Chinese classrooms, and present the awards to the speech competition winners. #chinesebridge2022 #汉语桥
In a recent survey published by @asianewzealandfoundation, 39% of NZers indicated that Chinese languages would be the most useful for young New Zealanders to learn. https://www.asianz.org.nz/research/twenty-five-years-of-new-zealanders-views-of-asia/