The Greek Teacher Bridging the Cultural Divide in China
Rania Katavouta. Credit: Eastday
Rania Katavouta, a 39-year-old Greek teacher, is devoted to teaching Greek in China and traveling in the world of literature.
By Xu Yan
” width=”1080″>“It’s all Greek to me” is an idiom that people use to express something that is difficult to understand. But Greek people use “It strikes me as Chinese” to describe this concept.
Greek and Chinese are known as two of the hardest languages in the world to learn.
Katavouta has worked as a Greek teacher at the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) for six years. She was the first Greek to be awarded the Shanghai Magnolia Silver Award in 2017 for contributing in city’s development through teaching and enforcing Sino-Greece cultural ties.
Czech language exam for foreigners to get more difficult from September
The current A1 exam required for permanent residence will be replaced by a tougher A2 exam of of this September.
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Foreigners from outside the EU seeking permanent residence in the Czech Republic will have to take a more difficult Czech language exam as of September, the Education MInistry wrote on its website on Friday. The exam will prove they have at least advanced command of the Czech language.
The change follows an amendment to a government measure approved earlier this week.
The current language exam tests basic knowledge of Czech at the A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The last foreigners to take the A1 exam will be those submitting an application for permanent residence by the end of August.
Ministry lays out goals for bilingual higher education
04/22/2021 04:12 PM
Education Minister Pan Wen-chung. CNA file photo
Taipei, April 22 (CNA) The Ministry of Education has laid out plans to promote bilingual higher education by gradually increasing the number of courses taught entirely in English in universities and colleges, Education Minister Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) said Wednesday.
According to the plans unveiled a day earlier, the ministry set a goal for three benchmark universities and 18 benchmark colleges to reach by 2024, under which at least 25 percent of second-year undergraduates at the 21 selected schools will possess at least a B2 language proficiency level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) scale, an international standard for describing language ability.
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