The Yangju Deokgye Library offers a bilingual class in which native Chinese and Japanese teachers, multicultural families, and local teenagers participate in reading foreign language books to build a healthy local community through communication and exchange with multicultural families. The teens of the bilingual class play the role of siblings in reading fairytale books to preschoolers in Japanese on the first and third Saturdays of each month and in Chinese on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Moreover, the native teachers point out simple expressions from the fairytale books in Japanese and Chinese, helping the children and parents better understand the expressions. A city official said, “The program is expected to not only promote the community spirit of the children and teenagers in living together with multicultural families by learning foreign languages, but also to create a strong bond among participating families by encouraging communication between family members and appreciation of each other. We look forward to the participation of more preschoolers and children.”

※ Please visit the website of the Deokgye Library (www.libyj.go.kr) or call +82-31-8082-7452 for more information.