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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
ULAN BATOR, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — It's early morning in Ulan Bator… a busy day is starting in the waking city. Enkhbat, a 19-year-old student, arrived early at the Chinese language testing center to take the HSK exam.
“I am a second-year student and I want to take the exam this year to test my Chinese language skills and prepare for studying abroad in the future,” Enkhbat said, adding that he is originally from Mongolia’s Khentii province, where his parents are cattle breeders. He was introduced to Chinese by chance.
In the summer of 2023, Enkhbat went to Ulaanbaatar with his father to sell cashmere products and met a Chinese businessman there. Since there was no translator, the deal ultimately fell through, which the father deeply regretted. That day, patting his son on the shoulder, he said, “You need to learn Chinese at university.”
After entering the university, Enkhbat chose the specialty “Chinese language” and plans to study in Shanghai after graduation. “China has a large market, the potential for Chinese-Mongolian trade is unlimited,” Enkhbat said.
Like Enkhbat, more and more young people in Mongolia are now keen to learn Chinese. According to Cheng Shengli, director of the Confucius Institute at the National University of Mongolia (NUM), the number of people learning Chinese is now second only to English among foreign language learners in the country.
Currently, Chinese is taught in 18 public primary and secondary schools and over 40 private schools in Mongolia, and over 150 more primary and secondary schools are planning to add it to the curriculum. The Confucius Institute at MSU, the Confucius Institute at the Mongolian National University of Education, and two more institutes at other universities, as well as the Confucius Classroom at Yucai School, serve as an important platform for Chinese language teaching and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Jia, a teacher at Khishig Secondary School, said that her students enjoy learning Chinese, singing Chinese songs and watching Chinese TV series. Some learn lines from their favorite Chinese actors and actresses.
The “Chinese Bridge” competition also aroused the enthusiasm of Mongolian students in learning Chinese. Hulan, a junior high school student at Caihong Middle School in Darkhan, participated in the finals of the 4th “Chinese Story Competition” among Mongolian high school students on May 23 this year. She told the story “Nezha Defeats the Dragon King” /”Nezha 2″/ and won third place.
“The Chinese Language Bridge helped me improve my Chinese grades and also realize that the Chinese language holds a wealth of treasures waiting to be discovered,” Hulan said.
In recent years, Mongolian schoolchildren and students have been very enthusiastic about the Chinese Bridge Competition. Every year, participants use it as a “training ground” for learning Chinese, turning each preparation and each stage of the competition into a valuable opportunity to improve their Chinese language proficiency.
According to Cheng Shengli, the Chinese Language Bridge is not only a competition, but also a way for Mongolian students to immerse themselves in the world of Chinese. This allows them to see not only the charm of the language, but also the endless opportunities that cultural exchanges between the two countries can bring. –0–
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