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Language should be about communication, not correctness

Something many foreign language learners may be able to relate to is the nail-biting anxiety that follows after engaging in conversation in a foreign...

Language Does Not Define Your Ethnic and Cultural Identity, You Do

It’s hard to remember when my inability to understand and speak Japanese really affected me. However, I do remember the dreadful promise I made to myself after my grandmother passed away and I saw my mother crying: “I have to learn Japanese, or else I will be a disappointment to my family.” I was 10 years old when I told myself this. 

Poetry and Its Forgotten Power

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article did not contain the source to the authoritative retelling of Martha Nasch’s story of imprisonment and...

Exposure is Key to Language Learning

The summer before my junior year of high school, one of my friends went to France on a foreign exchange trip. I remember her...

The Importance of Not Limiting Cultural Identity

As a Vietnamese-American, one of the most frustrating moments is eating at a Vietnamese restaurant with family and realizing how little of the language...

ASUCI Legislative Council Rejects Referendums Over Ambiguous Meaning of “2/3rds Vote”

Longstanding precedents established in the Associated Students of UCI (ASUCI) Constitution and By-Laws were brought into question during last week’s Legislative Council meetings. According...

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