These 11 students are junior high school students from the Santa Maria School in Spain. As a partner school of the Foreign Language School, the students, led by Principal Sabir, have come to Chongqing for the first time for a 12-day exchange visit.
"Hello everyone, my name is John, I am 15 years old, and I like playing basketball." "My name is Annie, there are three people in my family, and I like singing, dancing, and playing basketball." At 11:00 a.m., in the Spanish class of Grade 8 (Class 16), the students from Spain greeted everyone in Chinese that was still a bit rusty.
It turns out they are all students who love the Chinese language. Principal Sabir said that Chinese is one of the elective courses offered at the school. Students from the first to the fourth year of junior high school have two classes per week, and the students participating in this exchange activity have all taken Chinese as an elective.
In class, after learning about some traditional Chinese culture and food, the children from the Foreign Language School taught their Spanish friends how to read the tongue twister in Chinese. "Four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty." Because it is difficult to distinguish between flat and retroflex sounds, the children responsible for teaching on the podium could not help but laugh out loud.
To encourage their friends from afar, several students from the Foreign Language School took the lead in fluently reading the tongue twister in Spanish, which sparked even greater interest among the Spanish students, who then repeatedly read and learned it off-stage.
