Chinese television CCTV launches its first national competition ... - The Miami Herald

class=”dateline”> SHANGUAI – China Central Television (CCTV) has launched its first national competition speaking Spanish, with the participation of the Instituto Cervantes, whose center Shanghai culture was recorded on Saturday the first of the qualifying programs, further promote the study of language in the country.

“We wanted to celebrate this contest from six years ago, but at that time was not easy, because there were so many people who speak Spanish and many students who wanted to participate, but this year we have reached a good point to start competition, “said producer and member of the jury, Ai Kuiyu.

Indeed, the first “Spanish Quiz CCTV” with the participation of about 170 people from all over China, 60 of them that passed its first test Saturday in Shanghai (east), some 60 more than they will in Beijing on September 21, and another fifty recordings sent over the Internet from other parts of the country.

These 20 finalists will be chosen to move to the next phase.

So, after recording the first two qualifying programs Cervantes facilities in Shanghai and Beijing, recorded four successive programs in the iconic new CCTV headquarters in Beijing, the shape like the letter ñ is advantage for the logo contest, where three winners will be chosen end.

Whoever takes the first prize will also receive a trip to Peru with all expenses paid, offered by the Peruvian Embassy in the Asian giant.

“Among the participants, there are college students, graduates, people who are working, studying Spanish for their profession and people who simply love the language,” Ai said.

“We are confident that China and the Spanish speaking countries will have an important future, and we want to improve (Spanish Teaching in China) and promote the language,” he said, but “the language is only one way to communicate, but friendship and development are the most important “between the two cultures.

The contest will be broadcast only in Spanish channel CCTV, but in other chains in Chinese state media group, said on his part the director of the Cervantes Institute in China, Inmaculada González Puig, a member of the jury, which was completed in this first program with Lu Jingsheng hispanicist.

event “indicates the great interest there by Spanish right now in China, and that it integrates CCTV that level programming is a recognition of the state television” this reality, he said, surprised by the high level of most contestants.

“One of the questions that we are doing is what they studied Spanish, and I think they have really internalized the great value it has today, among many reasons, what it means for their professional integration. Everyone talks about it and which is the Spanish for improvement within a company, “he said.

Although Spanish teaching in Chinese universities began in the fifties, “in 2000 across China had just 500 students enrolled officers, and are now more than 10,000,” said Lu, dean of the University of Western Philology Shanghai International Studies (SISU).

are probably the spearhead of what has to be the study of Spanish in China in the future, Gonzalez Puig praised, “but finally beginning to see the tip of the spear, because it always spoke the Spanish (in the country) as a minority language, “he said, and now you begin to know its attractiveness as an international language.