My name is Hong Chen. *Tells you how to write her name*
am the chairwoman of Loyola University Chicago's Chinese Language Department.
am the chairwoman of Loyola University Chicago's Chinese Language Department.
Right now, Loyola University has a Chinese language minor.
Right now, Loyola University has a Chinese language minor.
This minor already has more than 60 students enrolled.
This minor already has more than 60 students enrolled.
Each year, 20 students graduate from our minor.
This major is pretty successful right now.
Within our minor, we have students from all majors.
We have computer science, chemistry, and even nursing students.
We have computer science, chemistry, and even nursing students.
All majors are represented.
Their reasons and motivation for studying Chinese language are not the same.
I once had a student who was a computer science major. They were looking for work, and would be working as an engineer in the future.
When they were being interviewed, they mentioned they were also studying Chinese. At the time of the interview, the person was very interested in them.
So, I don't think it matters what the major is. The Chinese language minor is for one's development and personal language use, and it is very helpful.
Obviously, among our students studying Chinese language, everyone has a different background. Some students are influenced at home.
They were born in the US, and their parents are from China.
They were born here. So, they got that influence from home, and wanted to continue studying Chinese.
There are also kids who were adopted by US parents. Although they look like they are Chinese, they don't have that understanding of Chinese language.
They have a very limited experience with Chinese culture. It's incredibly important for these kids to study Chinese.
It's how they are introduced to, and how they are put in a position to better understand this language and culture.
Of course, there are also students who study Chinese as a hobby. They aren't necessarily influenced at home, but perhaps by other avenues.
They watch TV, watch movies. This is interest in Chinese culture, and interest in history that brings them to study Chinese.
J: Hi, I'm Jenny. I'm a freshman studying advertising and public relations. M: I'm Mingwei. I'm a freshman studying biology.
J: I learned Chinese through talking with my parents, and then continuing to learn it in college.
M: I learned Chinese because I'm a native speaker. I guess I just learned it as, you know… you talk.
English is my second language. So, I'm learning, whether it's through movies or films and listening to other people talking.
J: I've learned that Chinese has impacted my everyday life, because I use it with my parents. So, it's good to know more about the language so I can expand on my thoughts.
J: Also, if I talk to other people, if I talk to Mingwei, and I don't know how to express something in English, I can just use a Chinese word for it.
M: I think the advantage of learning a second language is that you can communicate a thousand emotions. You can probably learn more about that person's stories.
J: I'm an ABC. Sometimes I don't feel like I fit into Chinese culture, because I have a lot of Chinese friends who are not ABC's.
J: So, when I talk to them on WeChat or something and there's a word I don't know, I have to take time to Pleco it, to translate it.
J: That kind of takes some time, and that makes me feel like I should work harder.
J: That makes me want to keep learning Chinese and better my vocabulary. So that's one way that I feel like I don't fit in.
M: I'm like the opposite of Jenny. Because, Jenny struggles with the native-Chinese slang, and their culture.
M: I'm like struggling in the American culture, I guess, because I didn't grow up here. It's a lot of references that they thought I knew, but I didn't.
M: I'm just going along like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah,".
M: So, there's a lot of times when I would finish talking to them, I would go online and search. "Oh, this is what it means,". So, I just learn it.
My name is Sonia Naughton. I'm a nursing major and I study Mandarin.
The reason why I wanted to add that as a minor alongside my major, even though it's kind of difficult to do that with time and things like that,
I studied Mandarin in high school, beginning my freshman year. I had a language requirement.
Both [of] my grandparents on my mother's side are both Chinese. They're from Shanghai. They immigrated around the 1940's, I think.
That was kind of important to me to connect back with my culture and to be able to kind of talk with my grandparents on a different level.
But also, I wanted to explore learning Chinese in college as well, in hopes to kind of broaden my horizon, in terms of applying Chinese to certain patients that I could be caring for within nursing.
With Mandarin, you have to speak it and listen to it, and also be able to write and read. So, that's so many components to it.
And I love encouraging people to try and learn it. They're always like "oh it's so hard", just because it's kind of like hieroglyphs. It's like a picture.
That's so different from Spanish or French, or things like that.
I remember, [in my] freshman year of high school, as long as you have a foundation, you're just learning vocabulary. And then, you're learning grammar.
So, in that sense, it's really easy. But at the same time as I've come to college, I've realized that you have to really work at your Mandarin.
You have to listen to it all the time, you have to practice speaking, you have to practice writing. Otherwise, you could just reach a plateau and it's not gonna go anywhere.
You're not really gonna, I guess for me, I'm not gonna improve at all.
I think having the motivation to work on it a little bit more is really important.
As with most, I mean obviously, with most things.
But, it is difficult at times.
In class, we'll read small Chinese articles, that you can practice with.
Or even going home and watching short Chinese TV shows. Even just listening, even if you're not paying attention, listening and reading along. It makes a difference.
And implementing them a little bit into your daily life, rather than being like "Oh! I have to study this for thirty minutes,".
That's also a good way, but a lot of people don't really have the motivation to be like *writing furiously*.
With language, you can get more towards that more personal aspect of somebody.
I can tell, when I'm at clinicals right now, if there are patients that don't speak English primarily or that they speak Polish or they speak Spanish,
it means a lot to them for a nurse or a translator to be able to actually speak the language with them.
It's a lot more personal to ask them, "How is your day going?" "How are you feeling", "What can I do for you?"
in their own original language. That's very important.
So, me studying Chinese is not only a way I can connect within myself, but it's also to connect within that deeper person of somebody that I'm caring for.
My name is Kendall, I am a junior.
I study exercise science with a focus on a pre-med track. I intend to go to medical school and become a doctor.
I'm really heavily involved on campus here, with a bunch of different clubs. I'm the vice president of programming for different clubs here on campus.
My sorority, Chi Omega, is one that I am very heavily involved in.
Greek life is more like a club, with, I mean, a very directed focus at friendship, sisterhood, building those connections and those networks, but also serving in our community.
We serve Make a Wish foundation, and that's what we direct a lot of our efforts at.
Language is something that's been really important in my life, because I was a volunteer in a hospital in the Emergency Department.
One of our patients came in. She was speaking to the admitting nurse, she was very rapidly trying to go back and forth between Mandarin and English, and trying to explain to her where the pain was, what had happened, and what she was feeling.
Being able to speak the language, I could tell that she was in distress, not only because she couldn't communicate how she was feeling.
Language is an incredibly important tool that we use to communicate. Not only body language but also verbal, like spoken language. But also, she was trying to explain not only what had happened but what she was feeling.
You could tell that it was causing her a lot of distress that the nurse didn't understand.
I spoke in and I asked, I kind of stepped in and asker her in Mandarin, "What happened? How can I help you?".
She got this look of shock on her face, and her jaw dropped a little bit and she went "You speak Mandarin?", in a very quick, questioning tone. She was shocked.
And I said "Yes, I want to help you. What happened?". I was able to help be that middleman, I guess in a way, to help convey her feelings and her situation to the nurse.
In doing that, it definitely eased some distress in her life. Wanting to go into medicine and into the medical field,
I definitely know that a language barrier can be very distressing to a patient, especially when they're trying to express to you why they're there and what the situation is.
Being able to step in and speak a language that's the most widely-spoken language in the world, (the most amount of people in the world do speak Mandarin),
definitely opens up that door for me to be able to help a lot of patients and provide comfort, in a time that's usually very uncomfortable and stressful.
When I went to China it was a handful of years ago, but there were a lot of things that I was really able to get a better understanding of and appreciate in my time there. We did a lot of traveling within the country,
but being able to not only experience such an old and a culture with a very rich history, as opposed to the culture of the United States, was very eye-opening to me.
And also, it definitely made me realize how so much of what I have been learning has been impacted by this history, both language and just cultural things.
Knowing that I also want to go into medicine, when we also visited more of a traditional, Chinese doctor,
that was definitely very interesting, because it brought me more from the M.D., very clinical aspect of medicine to the caring for your whole person, and caring for that person as more of a holistic approach.
That's something that's definitely stayed with me for a very long time, because in the United States, there's very much a focus on treating the ailment, but not the whole person.
And I think that that's something we draw a lot from, from Eastern medicine.
I mean, even just past a medical aspect, a lot of the history that I was able to really get a better appreciation of.
Seeing the Great Wall, and actually being able to appreciate in person, rather than just seeing a picture in a textbook was really eye-opening and was something that I really enjoyed about my experience.
I'm Shelby. I'm a political science major, and I started studying Chinese on accident.
I was originally enrolled in Japanese, and as I was moving in, I got an email saying that the class had been cancelled.
I went to go see an advisor on my first day, and was really nervous. She told me there was a Chinese class starting in ten minutes if I wanted to go.
So, I went, and then I never stopped.
In addition to studying Chinese, I've studied a lot of Chinese history and ancient Chinese philosophy.
I think it's really built my understanding for the country and its culture. I want to use that, along with my political science studies to bridge the gap between the two countries.
By studying abroad in China, I hope to greatly improve my language skills, but also sort of form a bond with the country, so I want to go back in the future and so that I can hopefully work there, actually.
I would love to spend a couple of years working abroad and sort of bring my understanding back to the United States in the future, and possibly work with organizations that I have built connections with while being in China.
Well, China has a really rich history and you can't even take a single class on one subject and learn a minuscule amount of it. I have, I feel like, the more you learn, the less you know, sort of.
I get a little piece of something. And then you know you need to study an entire decade for months.
That has made me even more interested in the political culture that China has. It's gone through so many dynasties and political changes that are unique to that country and don't have any similarities across the world.
Hi, I'm Teresa. I am studying political science and international studies.
I have a concentration in Chinese foreign policy and I have a special interest in human rights and international development.
I'm also one of the co-presidents of Model UN here. So, I pursue my interests through that as well.
Through Model UN specifically and my studies in political science and international relations, I've learned a lot about the importance of being aware and literate in the different business cultures
or political cultures of each nation, and how that comes into play while shaping foreign policy.
For example, between the US and China, there's a lot of different norms in their business practices, that there are organizations that try to educate people and leaders about how to navigate.
I think that's something that's very interesting and I think is something that I'm interested in pursuing in the future.
For example, there's PR organizations that try to help their clients work with different governments and work in these different international organizations like the UN.
I think that would be a very interesting thing to do, to take my knowledge about how countries operate differently from each other and sort of create a more collaborative, global community from that.
I feel like one of the things that I know and value about myself is that I feel like connections are important, and also difficult to cultivate.
Through my educational experience, I think I'm learning more and more about the complexity of relationships, and also the multitude of relationships that you'll come across and that I'll come across in my career.
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