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Success in Chinese Competition

A team of McDonogh Upper School students tied for first place in the Sixth Annual Chinese Bridge Language Proficiency Competition hosted by the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland on April 20. Ten teams of students from Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland competed in three categories: speech, performance, and a question/answer session on Chinese culture.

Led by Upper School Mandarin Chinese teacher Jenny Zhaohong Li, champions Jessica F.’14, Tyler J. ’15, and Aliya R.’15 impressed the audience with their language proficiency and talent. Tyler also received the highest overall oratory score with her five-minute speech entitled My Dream is Already Flying.

A stellar performance was also demonstrated by Marie C. ‘16, Sophie F. ‘16, and Alyssa R. ‘15, who have only studied Chinese for seven months. The trio won third place, and Sophie delivered an amazing four-minute speech entitledChinese is strange, Chinese is fun.

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