记者🔼：陈宝华

3月10日星期四，本学期的第一次葡语角在热情而又熟悉的打招呼方式中开始了。今天参加葡语角的老师是Ms. Alba I. García Troya🐿。

在同学们自我介绍之后🧑🏻‍🏫，大家开始了讨论🛀🏽。Alba有着两种不同的文化背景——西班牙和葡萄牙，因此学生们询问了她对语言的看法。作为一名经验丰富的语言学习者🧏‍♂️，Alba有很多事情想和学生们分享。她认为，语言首先是人类用来传递情感和人类交际的重要工具，凡是有人类的地方，就有语言。其次，语言是文化中的一个重要组成部分，没有语言就不可能有文化🤺，只有通过语言才能把文化一代代传下去。如果没有语言⛴，人类文明难以保存，文化很快就会消失。

Alba很想多教一些专业词汇给大家，她还教给同学们许多跟词汇有关的细节。最后，Alba帮大家解释了有关葡语等级考试的问题。葡语等级考试也叫CAPLE ，分为五个等级水平：初级、基础、中级、高级葡萄牙语文凭测试以及大学葡萄牙语文凭测试。

愉快的时光结束了，大家期待着下次的葡语角。

Portuguese Corner🍵：The Knowledge of Language

By Chen Baohua

The first Portuguese Corner of this semester was held at 6pm on Thursday. Ms. Alba I. García Troya attended the Portuguese Corner. After self-introduction, students started to bring out their questions. Because of the double cultural backgrounds of Alba, students asked her opinions on language acquisition. As an experienced language learner, Ms. Alba had many feelings and experiences to share with the students.

As far as she was concerned, language was used to convey human emotions and served as an important tool in inter-personal communication. Where there were human beings, there was languages. What was more, language was one of the vital components of culture, and without language, there couldn’t be any culture. Only through language could culture be passed down generation by generation. In other words, without language, it would be difficult to preserve human civilization, which would give rise to the quick disappearance of culture.

Alba also gave students more information about terminology. In the end of the Portuguese Corner, Alba clarified the CAPLE for students, which was a test to assess the levels of the Portuguese learners.

Do you want to improve your Portuguese and talk with the Portuguese teacher? Come and join us.