The Greek Teacher Bridging the Cultural Divide in China
Rania Katavouta. Credit: Eastday
Rania Katavouta, a 39-year-old Greek teacher, is devoted to teaching Greek in China and traveling in the world of literature.
By Xu Yan
” width=”1080″>“It’s all Greek to me” is an idiom that people use to express something that is difficult to understand. But Greek people use “It strikes me as Chinese” to describe this concept.
Greek and Chinese are known as two of the hardest languages in the world to learn.
Katavouta has worked as a Greek teacher at the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) for six years. She was the first Greek to be awarded the Shanghai Magnolia Silver Award in 2017 for contributing in city’s development through teaching and enforcing Sino-Greece cultural ties.
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