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[Alleluia]

I'm applying to Beida as an exchange student. On the application form they ask you to give in Chinese the reason why you plan to study in China. I haven't used Chinese in six months and am having major difficulties in getting even a few sentences down! Still for this purpose I'd naturally want the text to sound more or less natural. Please comment this attempt. Any huge mistakes or other stupidities?

我在赫尔辛基大学的亚非研究学院学习东亚研究，我的专业是中国的现代社会和文化。为了了解中国的社会和文化，我一定要学好汉语。我在赫尔辛基大学已经学了三年汉语。我的希望是在中国继续学习汉语，提高自己的汉语水平。

I don't know if I should say something else. The only good thing about this is that the space given for writing the answer is very limited...

[florazheng]

我的希望是在中国继续学习汉语，提高自己的汉语水平

Well, Your sentences are all correct grammatically and as good as our native Chinese speakers.

Just the sentence which I quote seems a little bit unsmoothly for me.

我希望在中国继续学习汉语，提高自己的汉语水平．

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[marcopolo79]

It's fine, it's an application for a language program, they're not expecting a great work of literature. This clearly reflects you know a lot of Chinese, and want to learn more.

[Alleluia]

Thanks guys! I didn't know whether to use 希望 as a verb or a noun, but I'll correct it as florazheng suggested. I just tend to get so nervous over these things. I've been falling to pieces all week because of this application, and boy am I glad to get it out of my hands tomorrow!

[howtofindyou]

For the first sentence,it was being like follows is more smooth:

我在赫尔辛基大学的亚非研究学院研究东亚 or 我在赫尔辛基大学的亚非研究学院研究学习怎样研究东亚 or 我在赫尔辛基大学的亚非研究学院学习东亚研究这个科目

[Alleluia]

I don't quite understand this sentence, especially the part on bold:

我在赫尔辛基大学的亚非研究学院研究学习怎样研究东亚

What does that mean? Why so many 研究? Anyway, I've already handed in the application so I'm not going to (or even couldn't) change it.

[skylee]

I think the original sentence (and actually the whole passage) is fine.

[xiaocai]

完全没有问题,不用改进了!