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November 6 2020 Japanese Dialects Event

Japanese Students Learning about Dialects of Japanese

Japanese program invited two native speakers living in the Chicago area, Saori Nakano and Ai Watanabe to give a mini workshop to students of JPN101, 103 and 210 on their native dialects of…

2020 Chicago Hope Scholar

Congratulations to Jung Lee, 2020 Chicago Hope Scholar!

Congratulations to Jung Lee, student of CHIN103-104 and volunteer tutor of Korean, for winning the 2020 Chicago Hope Women KOWIN Scholarship! We are so proud of you, Jung|贞贤! Keep up the good work!…

CHIN200 Mystery Guest

CHIN200 class had a mystery guest

Students in Chinese200 Advanced Communication Chinese had a mystery guest in Class! As it turned out, the mystery guest was a Chinese language teacher at Northwestern and a Ph.d student in Education at…

Chinese Conversation Hour

Nigel Flower starts PhD program in Linguistics at NYU

Our long-time tutor of Chinese and Japanese 林乾巽 is now studying as a doctoral student in Linguistics at New York University.  Nigel worked with Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio in Computer Science, and took…

Zoom screenshot of meeting with students in Japan

Japanese BLP Students collaborate with students in Japan

Japanese lecturer and BLP coordinator Mika Changet organized her Japanese BLP students to interview with Japanese college students via zoom. Students chatted in Japanese and interviewed about each other’s college lives. We thank…