Updates

Our visiting Chinese language teacher, Ms. Shiheng Zhu, today presented a gift to our Rector, Michael Zervakis and our Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs, Lifelong Learning and Outreach, Fotios Kanellos. The 12-metre scroll, seen here, is a copy of the painting “A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains” by Wang Ximeng (1096-1119), which is currently displayed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, China.

On Wednesday 11.20.2024 the first of the «English Talks Series» for the Academic Year 2024-2025 took place at the Language Centre, by Dr. Maria Papadomanolaki, under the topic "Acoustic Commons".

On Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October, an Open Chinese Language Course was held at the Language Center by the instructor Ms. Shiheng Zhu with the aim of informing interested undergraduate students about the Chinese language course. Ms. Zhu spoke both on issues related to the language such as symbols and pronunciation as well as on issues related to Chinese culture.

Ms Wenjia Zhang and Chinese 1 students organized a Food and Culture Exchange event at the Language Centre. They made dumplings together and talked about the festival traditions in China and Greece.

Mrs Wenjia Zhang introduced the tea culture and tradition in the Chinese class. Students enjoyed the full leaves of traditional Chinese tea and learned the tea ceremony.
Tea culture is called ChaDao or the art of drinking tea in China. It has held great cultural significance in China for over a thousand years.

Students of the "Chinese 3" class participated in a Chinese cooking workshop with Mrs Wenjia Zhang. During the workshop, they prepared dumblings and learned Chinese table manners.

Dumblings are a traditional food, essential for the Chinese New Year celebrations and hold a special significance in Chinese culture. Their preparation is often enjoyed as a family activity, where family members and…

In continuation of the musical events (TUC Open Mic) organized by the Language Center since 2018 as well as many other activities (see here), during the academic year 2022-2023, the Language Center had the pleasure of hosting and supporting a music group, which was formed after an open call to the Polytechnic community on the initiative of Ms McKay. During this time, the music group (choir and…

Primarily a foreign language teaching facility, the Language Centre, is also open to students and members of the Polytechnic Community... 

• for individual study 
• for a short break from academic activity 
• as a meeting point 

 ...on weekdays 9:00 - 15:00

The Language Centre would like to invite members of the Polytechnic community to participate in this year’s Christmas event. Anyone interested who is a musician or has choral experience or enjoys singing please contact either Ioanna Katsari (ikatsari<at>tuc.gr) or Triantafyllia Lytra (secretary of the Language Centre) (tlytra<at>tuc.gr) by 21st October. Musicians or singers that are familiar with either…

The Language Centre is pleased to introduce Mr Barry Doherty, an expert volunteer tutor who has kindly offered to help TUC students one-on-one with English language learning at both the general and academic levels.