World Cup 2018! How to Talk about Soccer in Chinese?
In fact, China is where this game was born! 2300 years ago, ancient Chinese begun to play 蹴鞠, (cùjū), a game in which people kicked a ball with their feet. In 2004, FIFA confirmed that this ancient game was the prototype of today’s soccer. Of course, the football game we watch today, the modern football, originated in England in the 11th century.
Football fans in China are used to watching the World Cup without their own national team. But they see this world-class event as a big celebration once every four years. I can still remember that the college I studied at once prolonged the light-off time during the World Cup because so many students watched the game in their dorms. In Chinese college dorms, the lights and electricity get switched off at night to encourage students to sleep and use their time wisely.
Soccer and the World Cup will be a hot topic for the next month! But for second language learners, it would be quite difficult to talk about an event like this using a second language, because of the large number of terms and slangs.
2002 is an extremely memorable year for all soccer fans in China. In that year, the national team first made its appearance at the World Cup finals. I still remembered back then, how it felt like almost everyone in Beijing talked about soccer. People got together in bars, evening snack restaurants or even on the streets to watch the game together. Although China failed to win any games, people celebrated the event as a big triumph. Yet, regrettably, China has never qualified for the World Cup since then.
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Football fans in China are used to watching the World Cup without their own national team. But they see this world-class event as a big celebration once every four years. I can still remember that the college I studied at once prolonged the light-off time during the World Cup because so many students watched the game in their dorms. In Chinese college dorms, the lights and electricity get switched off at night to encourage students to sleep and use their time wisely.
Soccer and the World Cup will be a hot topic for the next month! But for second language learners, it would be quite difficult to talk about an event like this using a second language, because of the large number of terms and slangs.
2002 is an extremely memorable year for all soccer fans in China. In that year, the national team first made its appearance at the World Cup finals. I still remembered back then, how it felt like almost everyone in Beijing talked about soccer. People got together in bars, evening snack restaurants or even on the streets to watch the game together. Although China failed to win any games, people celebrated the event as a big triumph. Yet, regrettably, China has never qualified for the World Cup since then.
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