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The annual Songjiang Battle Array event in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District is about to begin later this month. For the first time, Shih Chien University’s Kaohsiung campus—which has previously won three championships in the Creative Battle Array Competition—is forming a team of all Vietnamese international students. As most masters of this martial performance speak Taiwanese, the students had to overcome the language barrier while also learning a new skill from scratch. They’re sure to be a highlight of this year’s event!

Students wield their weapons to the swell of drums and gongs, aiming to perfect the powerful movements typical to the Songjiang Battle Array.

At the center of a circle, three people strike a battle formation as another leaps through the air above them. Everyone here is a Vietnamese international student from Shih Chien University in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District. They formed a team to compete in this year’s national Creative Battle Array Competition, and are practicing intensively for the preliminaries starting on March 28.

Student
Shih Chien University
It makes me happy to study the Songjiang Array with my friends, and it’s good exercise.

Student
Shih Chien University
I only learned about the Songjiang Battle Array when I came to Taiwan for the first time. Vietnamese culture is pretty different from Taiwanese culture.

Some of the female students admit it was difficult to train with weapons at first.

Student
Shih Chien University
I was a little afraid at first. But I practiced, and with my teacher’s instruction and more practice, I feel like they’re my friends. I’m not afraid at all.

Lee Wen-jui
School Songjiang Battle Array coach
A Vietnamese translator came to help. But there are some names for Songjiang Battle Array movements that she couldn’t directly translate. For certain movements, our coaches had to demonstrate repeatedly for them to learn it.

Most battle array coaches speak Taigi. But for these Vietnamese students who just started studying Mandarin, learning the terminology is another challenge altogether.

Wang Shu-yu
School section chief
At first, there was a lot of frustration when we were practicing certain movements. I even considered giving up. But after a period of adjustment, they began to understand what the instructors were teaching through the movements themselves.

Shih Chien University’s Kaohsiung campus has already won three consecutive championships in the Creative Battle Array Competition. Now, the school is sending a team of international students to express themselves on this exotic stage.

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