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ò Announcement: 2005 “汉语桥”高中学生中文演讲比赛 Hanyu Qiao Speech Contest for American High School Students at the Chinese Embassy in Washington D. C. May 7, 2005 In collaboration with the Chinese Embassy of and the Yuwenbao, CLASS is organizing a speech contest to be held on Saturday, May 7 at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America located at 2300 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. The purpose of this event is to. encourage more non-native speakers to learn Chinese language at the pre-college level. Honorary Chairpersons of this event are Ambassador Zhou and Minister Counselor Liu Theme of the Speech: The contest speech will be based on the theme "Splendor of Chinese Culture." However, students are free to develop any topic within this general theme. The speech must be between three to five minutes long. Rules of Contest: 1. Registration (use application form) begins April 1, 2005 and ends April 20, 2005. 2. On the application form, there needs to have a student photo and parent/guardian¹s signature. Incomplete application form will not be processed. 3. Send completed application form to: Yu-Lan Lin 9 Clinton Path #3 Brookline, MA 02445 4. Each school can only enter ONE student for the contest. 5. Individual schools will decide how their one participant should be selected, e.g. holding a preliminary school-wide speech contest. 6. Heritage students already speaking Mandarin or Cantonese/or other dialects before taking Chinese in school are not eligible. 7. If the total number of applicants is under 20, all will be invited to D.C. for the contest; however, if there are more than 20 applicants, we will hold a preliminary selection round whereby all applicants will submit a three to five minute audio or videotape, from which judges will choose the 20 finalists. 8. Finalists must be present for the on-site contest on May 7 at the Embassy to participate in the contest.
On-Site Contest: · On-Site Registration for the contest: May 7 from 9:00am-12:00pm · Speech Contest: 1:00-4:00pm · At the end of each contestant¹s speech, a panel of three judges will ask one question each based on the content of the speech. · Tallying of Scores: 4:00-4:30pm · Award Ceremony: 4:30pm-5:00pm · Dinner: 5:30pm
比赛日期：五月七日下午二时至五时 比赛地点: 中国大使馆Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America, 2300 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.
题目的主体：灿烂的中国文化 学生准备三至五分钟有关中国文化的演讲，裁判就演讲内容提出相关问题。
为鼓励更多非华裔的高中学生学习汉语， 本协会与中国大使馆和语文报共同举办首届汉语桥高中学生中文演讲比赛。中国驻美周文重大使和刘川生公使衔参赞将担任此次演讲比赛的荣誉主席。
协会郑重邀请各位高中老师选拔优秀学生一名代表该校参加演讲比赛。详细规则请参照英文附件说明。报名截止日期为四月二十日。这是第一次举办演讲比赛，希望老师们多多鼓励学生参加，协会才能每年继续举办全国性的类似活动。参赛学生将获得奖状和使馆赠品。
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ò Winners: Our Students Made us Proud at The First CLASS Hanyu Qiao Speech Contest
第一届汉语桥全美高中学生汉语演讲比赛 十五位来自美国各州的高中学生今年五月七日参加在华盛顿中国大使馆举行的首届演讲比赛。本协会在国家汉办许琳主任和使馆刘川生公参的支持下，首次为母语非汉语的高中生举办演讲比赛。参赛学生的中文朗朗上口，说得头头是道，家长们反映热烈，并感谢他们的汉语老师辛苦的指导。Fifteen high school students participated in the first Chinese speech contest on May 7th, 2005 at the Chinese Embassy in Washington D. C. The contest was designed for high school students who are non-native speakers of Chinese. Accompanied by their parents and teachers, those contestants came from public and private schools in California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin, and Washington D. C.
Report on the First Hanyu Qiao US High School Speech Contest 汉语桥高中学生中文演讲比赛To support for the 2005: The Year of Language national campaign, CLASS organized its first speech contest on Sunday, May 7, 2005 at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America. The purpose of this event was to encourage more non-native speakers to learn Chinese language at the pre-college level, as well as highlight their outstanding academic achievement in learning Chinese. Honorary Chairpersons of this event were Ambassador Wenzhong Zhou and Minister Counselor Chuansheng Liu. Organizing Committee members were Yu-Lan Lin of CLASS, Mr. Yougen Yu of the Chinese Embassy, and Beifeng Sun of the YuWenBao North American Monthly. This event was made possible by the generous funding from the Chinese Embassy and the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Hanban). Fifteen high school students from public and private schools in California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington D. C. participated in the Hanyu Qiao Speech Contest. CLASS would like to commend the following teachers for their dedication in helping their students get prepared for the speech contest. Without their active participation and strong support, this event would not be made possible.
Chang, Vicky 朱慧敏 Verona High School Chen, Xiaoyu 陈小渝 Conserve School Guo, Yuming 郭玉明 St. Ann's School Ekeberg, Lea 艾丽雅 Sidwell Friends School Hwang Jen Syan 黄贞贤 Central High School Hou, Jia-Pei 王家培 Verona High School Liu, Michell 劉幼雯 Brunswick School Schultz, Ning 王宁 Culver Academy Tan, Dali 谭大立 Landon School Wang, Gwen 谢桐光 Richard Montgomery High Wang, Yin-Fang 王蔭芳 Lake Highland Prep School Xu, Lanting 徐兰婷 Bellarmine College Prep. Yang, Yinong 杨亦农 Buckingham Browne and Nicholas High School Yu, Jean 于建君 Hotchkiss School Zhang Min 张敏 Indiana Academy Yunan Zhang 张育年 West Potomac High School Zhou, Qinru 周勤如 Harvard-Westlake School
Congratulations toAll Speech Contest Contestants!
First Prize Winner: X. Sporck, Bellarmine College Preparatory School, San Jose, CA
Second Prize Winners: D. Zebrowski, Verona High School, NJ
E. Scheruber, St. Ann’s School, New York
B. Shea, Landon High School, Bethesda, MD
Third Prize Winners and Honorable Mentions:
F. Schneider,
Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD
COMMENTS FROM THE SPEECH CONTEST CONTESTANTS AND THEIR PARENTS compiled by Catherine Yen Thank you very much for sponsoring the first year of the Chinese speech contest which was held at the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC. It was a wonderful educational opportunity for all the students who were involved. – G. Gianelli I had a wonderful time at the contest, thank you so much for organizing it all! It was such a thrill and encouragement to perform in front of such a prestigious audience and to see other non-heritage high school students and their efforts… Overall though, the experience was incredible. I hope to stay in touch with a bunch of the people I met there. It was a perfect culmination to my high school Chinese studies. – C. Melvoin It was an excellent experience for our son. He worked hard on his speech for many, many days, and we are very proud of him. His confidence and skill in Chinese made friends for our family all over China last year, as people were astonished to hear a white American teenager speaking Chinese and had many questions. We're very glad our public schools offer Chinese language. – R. Helgesen (a parent) I think for next year and the following years you should enforce having the students memorize their speeches. If all the kids memorize their speech, it would be more pleasant to sit through their speech, you can understand what they say, what they say will be clearer, and everyone will be at the same advantage, otherwise some people will have it memorized and others will not (obviously the ones who have it memorized will have a better chance of winning). I also think there should be more competitors; more people from around the country. I also think there should be something after the competition, like to continue for the winners. Maybe this can be carried out through trying to publicize the competition more. – X. Sporck
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