Reflection & Questions Answered

I am happy to say that the senior project experience has been truly eye-opening. Not only have I been given the opportunity to delve into...

Week 10: Chinese Syntax

Like with South Asian languages, many dialects are spoken in China; however, unlike South Asian languages, I have yet to encounter a...

Week 9, Part 2: Dravidian Languages

Dravidian languages like Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu are being separated from the rest of the South Asian languages because...

Week 9, Part 1: All Except Dravidian

In my previous post about South Asian languages, I mentioned that they would be mashed up into one language category due to similarities...

Week 8, Part 2: Chinese & Pronunciation

For those who have followed my blog since the beginning, this blog topic may seem familiar. In my Week 3, Part 2 post, I enumerated some...

Week 8, Part 1: South Asian Languages & Pronunciation

In the Indian subcontinent, there are 16 major languages and hundreds of dialects spoken. Four languages of South India, Tamil,...

Week 6: Learning English, They Find Hard

This week, the survey was sent out in the BASIS newsletter! I am now patiently waiting for responses to come in. Also, unfortunately...

Week 5: Speed Bumps

This week was a very slow week. The language centers at Stanford and San Jose State didn't get back to me yet and my survey still did not...

Week 4: English Sucks

Last week, my mentor Ms. Abdelaziz commented on my week 3 part 1 blog post about how Bill Bryson, American author, wrote about how the...

Week 3, Part 2: Why Chinese ELLs Have an Accent

After seeing the representation of Chinese people in my surveying, I decided that Chinese, and more specifically Mandarin, would...

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