Legon receives Chinese language textbooks

Story: Leticia Ohene-Asiedu & Martha Asantewaa Boateng
THE Chinese Embassy has presented 2,000 Chinese textbooks and reading materials to the University of Ghana, Legon.
Making the presentation, the acting Chinese Charge d’Affairs, Mr Wang Lushan, said the books were to assist Ghanaian students studying the Chinese language at the university.
The items included reading books in English and Chinese, video tapes and DVDs.
He explained that currently 30 Ghanaian students had completed their training programme in Chinese, adding that last year four students from the University of Ghana were given scholarships by the Chinese Embassy to study in China.
He said the embassy had provided the University of Ghana with two instructors and four volunteers to help teach the language.
He said four volunteers had also been sent to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to teach the language.
Mr Lushan said a degree course would begin in August this year for beginners.
He was of the hope that the materials would enhance their studies.
Receiving the materials, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ghana, Professor E.K. Osam, expressed the hope that the university would become a centre where students from the West African sub-region would come to learn the Chinese language.