Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/03
By: Christie Chen

Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) A Ph.D. student from the United States on Friday won the top prize

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in a Mandarin speech contest in Taipei that saw foreigners use Mandarin to describe their experiences in Taiwan or tell other personal stories.

Samuel Galler, one of the 77 contestants and a Ph.D. student at Oxford University, grabbed the first prize with a fluent speech about his fanciful interaction with his plants — which he bought at the Jianguo Flower Market in Taipei — and what he learned from that experience.

Choosing “The Revelation of Nature” as the theme of his speech, Galler cited lines from Chinese poetry and even sang the classic Chinese song “Green Island Serenade” in his presentation.    [FULL  STORY]