Mandarin Scholarship Taiwan » Jeffrey Withaya Campbell http://mandarinscholarship.com Studying Chinese in Taipei, Taiwan Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:56:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Chinese Character Festival http://mandarinscholarship.com/2010/01/02/chinese-character-festival/ http://mandarinscholarship.com/2010/01/02/chinese-character-festival/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:59:33 +0000 Jeffrey Withaya Campbell http://mandarinscholarship.taiwanblogs.org/?p=308 6th-chinese-character-festival

Students studying Chinese in Taipei might be interested in the 6th Taipei Chinese Character Festival. There is a “Cultural Bazzar” and an Art Exhibition featuring ten South-east Asian artists.

Cultural Bazaar
The bazaar will feature a fusion of Chinese characters and the cultural creative industries. Activities include calligraphy, paper cutting, lithography, interactive character quizzes, New Year’s couplet demonstrations, hand puppet shows, dancing, street performers, poetry recitals and puppet performances.

taipei-cultural-bazzar

Dates: January 9th-10th 10am-5pm

Venue:Taipei Confucius Temple Google map

Art Exhibition
Ten artists from areas in Southeast Asia influenced by the culture of Chinese writing are invited to present artworks based on Asian thinking and Chinese characters.

Dates: January 1st to 11th 2010
Venue: Exhibition Room, CKS Memorial Hall Google map

Note: CKS Memorial Hall is also known as “National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall” (國立臺灣民主紀念館).

The Chinese Character Festival website is in Chinese only:

chinese-character-festival.org.tw

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Passing the TOP test is mandatory if you receive a scholarship to study Chinese in Taiwan.

Test of Proficiency-Speaking (TOP Speaking)…a communication-oriented test which assesses Chinese learners’ non-academic speaking ability. The test materials are based on authentic situations which are close to everyday life. The purpose of the test is to evaluate test takers’ ability to effectively express themselves by speaking in assorted situations.

The pilot tests are for two levels, Beginner & Learner:

TOP-speaking-levels

Welcome the candidates who are non-native speakers of Chinese to take the test！Don’t slip the chance away！Detail Information of registration：
Registration Period：Nov. 16th (Mon.) ～ Dec. 4th　(Fri.)

Test Date：Dec. 19th (Sat.)

Test Format：Computer-based

Test Levels：Beginner、Learner

Test Fee：Free！Plus a free gift！

Test Site：Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan, Fu Jen Catholic University, Chung Hsing University, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages.

How to register：Please link at http://ap1.sc-top.org.tw/Web/Tester/Login.do to register.

For more information, please link at http://www.sc-top.org.tw or call at 02-7734-5638 ext. 5631～5636.

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