To Beijing Olympics: Multilingual Conversation ABC

Author: Dong Jinxia
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: On August 2004, when the curtain of the Athens Olympics was slowly drawn, the Associated Press published a quick comment, calling the Greek people an epic welcome ceremony to invite the greatest athletes in the world to its "Olympic birthday party." At the moment when 72,000 local spectators and 4 billion TV viewers around the world gathered for the opening ceremony, the elliptical central venue symbolizing the Earth was filled with 10,500 athletes from 202 countries and regions, the whole world was united here, united in the sacred Olympics. When the little giant Yao Ming held the five-starred red flag and led the Chinese delegation into the stadium, the entire audience gave a warm applause to the Eastern dragon. At that moment, the two ancient civilizations of the East and the West clasped hands together, from 2004 to 2008, the Olympic spirit was passed on here in the best way. This unity and this inheritance rely on the communication and exchange of language. Based on this, "Towards Beijing Olympics - ABC of Multilingual Conversation" was born. It provides a comparison of Pinyin, English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic in 9 languages and scripts, covering Olympic event terminology, Olympic life expressions, Olympic situational dialogues, and Olympic knowledge introductions, laying a foundation and providing tools for unity, inheritance, communication, and exchange.