{"id":4521,"date":"2024-04-19T18:18:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/?page_id=4521"},"modified":"2024-04-19T18:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:18:43","slug":"un-chinese-language-day-forum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/chinese\/ccp\/ccp2024\/un-chinese-language-day-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Chinese Language Day Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy UN Chinese Language Day! \u8054\u5408\u56fd\u4e2d\u6587\u65e5\u5feb\u4e50\uff01<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The date for the Chinese day was selected from Guyu (\u201cRain of Millet\u201d), which is the 6th of 24 solar terms in the traditional East Asian calendars, to pay tribute to Cangjie. Cangjie is a very important figure in ancient China, claimed to be an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. Legend has it that he had four eyes and four pupils, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet. From then on, Chinese people celebrate the day Guyu in honour of Cangjie. In the Gregorian calendar, it usually begins around April 20.THE UN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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At Queen’s, we invited two speakers, Isabella Souza Mclaughlin (\u82cf\u8513\u4f0a) at Queen\u2019s and Qinyuan Li (\u674e\u6c81\u56ed) from Trinity College Dublin, to our Chinese Culture Forum. They offered insights into their journeys of learning, teaching, and researching the Chinese language in the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isabella Souza Mclaughlin<\/strong> is a bilingual English and Portuguese speaker with a keen interest in language-learning. Graduated with BSc in International Business with Mandarin Chinese, Isabella is currently Global Marketing and Recruitment Co-ordinator in Global Student Recruitment at Queen\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qinyuan Li<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in language education at the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. She has developed her research interests in multilingualism, language acquisition, and the application of technology in educational contexts. Currently, she is engaged in a research project titled \u2018Third or Additional Language Learning Strategies: How Learners in Ireland Learn the Chinese Language\u2019, which is funded by the TCD-China Scholarship Council Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The range of topics in discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Help with the surveys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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