There are 17 female students of linguistic four-year course at Gioia high school who sweated yesterday (yes, and not even metaphorically, summer has arrived) on the Chinese, which is the language spoken by 1.1 billion people worldwide. It is the first time, in the history of the Piacenza school, that Chinese appears as a second written.
Written Chinese, in Italy, was released in 2012, 2013, 2019, but in those years the Piacenza course, which debuted in 2018 at Gioia, was not yet ready to deliver candidates for the high school diploma. The students used the simplified script of the People’s Republic of China. Ideograms, pictograms, phonograms.
At least a thousand different characters were the baggage (equivalent to the European B1 certification) collected by the teacher’s students Carlotta Trevisan (assisted, for the conversation, by Professor Lu) with which yesterday – plus the help of the dictionary – the 17 pioneer candidates were asked to write two short compositions, related to the current affairs and literature topics covered in the texts to be analysed. Reading, comprehension, writing. A literary text written by was chosen by the Ministry Yu Huacontemporary author idolized as a rock star in China but also in Italy.
