Eligibility Requirements:
- Current undergraduate and graduate students from participating universities in the Washington, D.C. region.
*For 2021 Spring GW Annual Chinese Speech Contest, students in both Class of Fall 2020 and Class of Spring 2021 are eligible to participate.
- Native language is not Chinese
- Taken at least 280 hours of college level Chinese classes or equivalent (as determined by the student’s university and subject to review by the contest committee)
- Proficiency Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Examples of Ineligible University Students
- Students whose native language is Chinese, including a Chinese dialect such as Cantonese
- Students who grew up in a Chinese speaking environment
- Students who have studied or lived in a region where Chinese is the official language for two or more years
- Students who have advanced to and participated in the final round of a previous GW Annual Chinese Speech Contest competition
