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Australian contestant: I am pushed to be good at Chinese

Editor:李莎宁
Source:english.rednet.cn
Updated:2016-08-04 10:35:12




Ke sings a Chinese song entitled as "The sealed lips".

Ke Xiaoshi(sound) lays down casually in the interview of Rednet.


Ke dances and sings on the stage.


Ke Xiaoshi (sound), an Australian junior college student in Department of Civil Engineering of The University of Adelaide, could sang a Chinese song while he was chatting with you. The active young man told journalist that his experience of learning Chinese due to two magic power: texts books and his girl friend's "manipulation". 

" I had a misunderstanding while I was learning Chinese at first, which was not valuing books because they were too much patterns. And then I found I was wrong. People should get information from textbooks for more knowledge because books are very good teachers for learning Chinese. You not only need to talk to people, but also you need to read and write in Chinese characters. ”

Ke Xiaoshi's Chinese competence improved rapidly after that. Ke had a good leap after he returned to Australia, for he has a Chinese girlfriend who would be angry if Ke not brushed up his compentence of Chinese language.

Original link: “汉语桥”选手柯小狮:被中国辣妹子逼成“中文专家”

  他会用澳大利亚的方言说中文,他被“汉语桥”工作人员称作“中文老司机”,他可以跟你聊聊天就唱起中文歌传词达意,他是阿德莱德大学土木工程系大三的学生,他就是来自澳大利亚的“汉语桥”选手柯小狮。30日,柯小狮讲述了自己学习汉语的两样“法宝”和自己的“中国梦”。

  “当时学汉语在认识上有一个错误,不珍惜课本,觉得从课本上学习汉语太模式化。后来我发现这是不对的,一定要从课本上吸取知识,课本是学习汉语非常好的老师。你不仅需要和人们聊天,也需要读书和写汉字。”

   发现了这一点之后,柯小狮的中文水平突飞猛进。不久后,柯小狮回到了澳大利亚。另一件事的发生让他的汉语更上了一层楼,他交了一个中国女朋友。