Article source: Schoolof International Studies

Author: Yu Yang

The 26th Universiade will be held in Shenzhen this August, and 214 students from the School of International Studies of Sun Yat-sen University have got through severe selection to be enrolled as minor languages volunteers, accounting for half of all the minor languages volunteers for the Universiade. They major in French, Russian, Spanish, Portugal, Korean, Japanese and Arabic, etc.

The Schoolof International Studies takes it as an important part of social practices for university students and a good opportunity to display their excellence to work as minor languages volunteers in the Universiade. Thus highly attention is paid to the volunteers training, which is elaborately planed and carefully organized. The training is divided into two parts, language training and generic skills training. In the former part, the training is diverse language-specialized and includes daily communicative language and common sports language. The later includes cross-culture communication and customs of various countries, etc. Every volunteer who finishes the training will be given two credits by the School, which has greatly mobilized their initiative.