第10届“汉语桥”世界中学生中文比赛马来西亚预赛圆满落幕 The Preliminary Contest in Malaysia of the 10th Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Secondary School Student Concludes

        2017年8月19日，由马来亚大学孔子学院和中国驻马来西亚大使馆联合举办的第10届“汉语桥”世界中学生中文比赛马来西亚预赛顺利举行，共有来自马来西亚各地10所中学的30位参赛选手参加了此次比赛。

         On August 19^th, the 10th Malaysian Preliminary Contest of Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Secondary School Student co-organized by KongZi Institute University of Malaya and Chinese Embassy in Malaysia was successfully held at KongZi Institute University of Malaya. Thirty  contestants from ten Secondary schools in Malaysia took part in the preliminary contest.

        大赛开幕式上，马来亚大学孔子学院的中方院长陈忠先生向参赛选手和观众介绍了中学生汉语桥的举办目的，并简要回顾了汉语桥比赛在马来西亚的发展历程。他表示希望汉语桥中学生比赛能成为马来西亚中学生提高汉语能力，展现个人风采的重要平台，并以此为契机，进一步了解中国文化。

       In the opening ceremony, Mr. Chen Zhong, Chinese Director of KongZi Institute UM summarized the development history of Chinese Bridge for Secondary School Students in Malaysia. He hoped the competition could be a platform where students can improve their competency in Chinese, showcase their personality and further understand the Chinese culture.

         比赛共分为三部分即：演讲、回答问题和才艺表演。参赛者均为母语为非汉语的中学生，他们以“学会中国话,朋友遍天下”为主题进行了演讲，其中，来自宽柔中学的陈运洳同学，他的演讲,表达清晰且生动幽默，给评委和现场观众留下了深刻印象。随后选手们表演了中国歌曲、中国民族舞蹈、古筝演奏、大提琴演奏、中国书法、中国武术、单口相声、快板等中华才艺，这些不同文化语言背景的选手通过自己独特的方式表达了他们对中国文化的理解及喜爱。经过激烈地比拼，最后来自宽柔中学古来分校的纪杰林同学和阿菲卡同学分别获得本次比赛的冠军和亚军，他们将代表马来西亚赛区，去中国参加与世界其他国家选手进行的世界中学生中文比赛的半决赛和决赛。

       The competition is divided into three parts: speech, question-answer (Q&A) and talent show. All the contestants are non-native Chinese speakers; they gave the speeches with the topic “Learning Chinese double your world” in the first part. Chen Yunru from Foon Yew High School impressed the judges and audience by her outstanding speech. In the third part, contestants with different cultural background showed their love and deep understanding on traditional Chinese culture by their wonderful performance such as Mandarin singing, folk dancing, Chinese Guzheng and Chinese Kong Fu. After fierce competition, JASMINE KEE BINTI AZUAN from Yew High School-Kulai Campus emerged as Champion. AFIQAH HANIS BT. HANIFAH who is from the same school with JASMINE won the second prize. They will be the representative for Malaysia Secondary school students to participate in the semi-final and final round of Chinese Bridge-World Secondary Students Chinese Proficiency Competition.