by Toni | Nov 15, 2021 | Culture and Community
Diwali is a festival of lights and one of the major festivals celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists. The festival usually lasts five days and is celebrated during the Hindu lunisolar month Kartika (between mid-October and mid-November). One of the...
by Toni | Jan 13, 2020 | China Travel, Chinese, Culture and Community, Language
Have You Ever Wanted to Learn a Foreign Language ? Not sure where to begin? With a sea of web-based resources, who knows their beginning from their end? My journey to learn Japanese language started many years ago. Unable to physically immerse in language study for a...
by Najiyah Kelly | Jan 12, 2020 | Beginner, Chinese, Culture, Culture and Community, Language
1/7/2020 polyglot2abroad INTRODUCTION The top five apps that you should download before coming to China. You will need to either open your current phone plan to allow for international use or purchase a sim card when you arrive so that you can have internet access...
by Toni | Nov 6, 2019 | Chinese, Culture and Community, Language
Language Partners Wanted Learning Chinese language as a hobby started a few years ago (much the same with learning Japanese, most recently Vietnamese and Spanish). In the beginning, the only words I could utter correctly were “Ni hao,” 你好. The reading and...
by Toni | Oct 11, 2019 | Culture, Culture and Community, Language
How we define community is important to our survival. The perspectives that we take on the community of others work for us or against us, against our own community. One point of foreign language acquisition is to broaden one’s view of community by extending...
by Toni | Oct 8, 2019 | Culture and Community, Language
Except for the foresight and forward-looking culture of Buckman Laboratories International, Inc., created by the company’s President at that time, I would not have had the opportunity to complete my education at Rhodes College and further develop my interest in...
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