AzerTAc employees study Chinese language
Baku, March 2 (AZERTAC). Employees of the Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency (AZERTAC) have an opportunity to study the Chinese language. A course of study of the Chinese language conducted by Ms. Hu Fenghua, director of the Confucius Institute functioning at the Baku State University started in the Agency.
Before the first lesson, responsible editor of AZERTAC Nargiz Sadikhli reported that the courses are held at the initiative of the Confucius Institute and supported by the Director General of AZERTAC Aslan Aslanov. Noting that these studies are the first Chinese language courses for Azerbaijani journalists, Sadikhli said that the Chinese language is the most widely spoken language in the world with a total of over a billion people, and one of the six official and working languages of the United Nations.
“The relations between Azerbaijan and China have always been at high level. Special achievements in their establishment and development belong to the national leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev. Relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, founded by this prominent politician, are now successfully continued by the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev”, she stressed.
“The journalists, too, make their contribution to the development of relations between the two countries. In December last year, in the building AZERTAC, it was arranged a photo exhibition of Chinese News Agency Xinhua, titled “China - the friendship that comes from the East” and dedicated to the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Azerbaijan and China. One of the organizers of the exhibition was the Confucius Institute”, underlined N. Sadikhli, who expressed confidence that current courses will also be another bridge between Azerbaijan and China. She also noted that the opening of the courses coincided with the day of establishment of AZERTAC. Just it was March 1, 1920, when the Government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic made a decision on the establishment of the Azerbaijani Telegraph Agency.
Ms. Hu Fenghua noted with satisfaction that in Azerbaijan there is a great interest in learning the Chinese language, and described the features of this language. As stated, the lessons will be held once a week.
In Azerbaijan, the Confucius Institute functions since April 2011, at the Baku State University as the Azerbaijan-China Education and Research Center, based at the University’s Oriental Studies Faculty. It promotes full and continuous cycle of learning the Chinese language, beginning with learning the basics of the Chinese language and ending with fluent language in accordance with international standards, introduces students to the ethnography, ethno-psychology and philosophical schools of China, peculiarities of calligraphy, traditional faiths, culinary traditions, martial arts and Chinese traditional medicine.
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