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Social Affairs and Culture Secretary Alexis Tam Attended Book Launch at MPI

Dr Alexis Tam, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, attended the book launch ceremony of O Delta Literário de Macau and GlossárioPortuguês-Chinês de Expressões e ProvérbiosPortuguesesat the Macao Polytechnic Institute on 29th January 2016.

In support of the implementation of the national policy of building Macao into a platform for commerce and services between China and Lusophone countries, MPI always attaches great important to Portuguese teaching and research and is dedicated to training Portuguese-speaking personnel. With the care and support of the Macao SAR Government, MPI held the book launch ceremony of O Delta Literário de Macau and Glossário Português-Chinês de Expressões e Provérbios Portugueses on the main MPI campus on 29th January 2016. Dr Alexis Tam, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, officiated the ceremony.

O Delta Literário de Macau is written by Professor José Carlos Seabra Pereira of the Universidade de Coimbra, a renowned Portuguese littérateur. Through around one year of lecturing and study at MPI, the writer completed his work, which reveals the fact that the Portuguese literature has interactedand merged with Chinese culture over hundreds of years, founding the research areas of “Portuguese literature in Macao” and “Macao and Portuguese literature”.

Glossário Português-Chinês de Expressões e Provérbios Portuguesesis completed by two senior faculty members of MPI – Li Fei and Jorge Bruxo. This dictionary uses a simple manner of consultation, giving every word and idiom explanations that aim at providing effective assistance to Chinese speakers’ mastery Portuguese words and idioms.

Professor Carlos André, Head of the Portuguese Language Teaching and Research Centre, remarked that the publication of O Delta Literário de Macau and GlossárioPortuguês-Chinês de Expressões e ProvérbiosPortugueses has significant practical value to Portuguese teaching and research, and in particular, GlossárioPortuguês-Chinês de Expressões e Provérbios Portugueses is an excellent tool for Chinese speakers learning Portuguese as a second language.

Dr. Alexis Tam, Secretaryof Social Affairs and Culture,and Professor Lei HeongIok of MPI gave the new books as gifts to the invited guests. The two authors autographed their books for the readers.


Social Affairs and Culture Secretary Alexis Tam Attended Book Launch at MPI

Book Launch Ceremony

Dr. Alexis Tam, Secretary of Social Affairs and Culture give the new books as gifts to the invited guests

Speech by Professor José Carlos Seabra Pereira

Speech by Jorge Bruxo

 

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