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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Curtain-Up <strong>of</strong> ―Foreign Languages<br />

Festival‖ at <strong>PKU</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2006—4-27<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=146116303<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, April 27th, 2006: ―Elegancy <strong>of</strong> Youth, Heart <strong>of</strong> the World‖ –<br />

the Foreign Languages Festival, sponsored by School <strong>of</strong> Foreign Languages <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, began on 7:00 p.m., April 23rd. The opening ceremony ―Ten<br />

Classic Sentences, Olympic in Foreign Languages‖ attracted hundreds <strong>of</strong> students.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dong Jinxia, director <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong> Female Gym Research Center, international<br />

referee <strong>of</strong> gymnastics, Chen Yongli, secretary <strong>of</strong> Youth League <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong> SFL(School<br />

<strong>of</strong> Foreign Languages) attended the ceremony, together with many other guests<br />

from other universities and colleges in Beijing.<br />

Chen Yongli pointed out in his speech that this festival was in correspondence with<br />

Olympic hits, and he hoped a series <strong>of</strong> activities such as ―Ten Classic Sentences,<br />

Olympic in Foreign Languages‖ and ―Lectures by Ambassadors‖ could further enrich<br />

the campus life and demonstrate SFL‘s charm.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Dong Jinxia, who has opened a popular course <strong>of</strong> ―Olympic Culture‖, expressed<br />

her confidence in this festival. She encouraged the students to take advantage <strong>of</strong> the<br />

diversity in the festival to study foreign languages and the Olympic spirit, which<br />

would pave their way for serving 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.<br />

The activity would last for about a month. Besides the languages showed and taught<br />

on the opening ceremony (French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese,<br />

Korean), there would also be Thai, Mongolian, Burmese, Sanskrit, Hindi and Urdu,<br />

etc., accompanied by the ambassadors‘ lectures and foreign languages cultural<br />

parties.<br />

Edited By : Hu Jun<br />

Translated By : Zhang Huishu<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

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