Last quarter Pacific Ties published “No English, No Help,” which reported that many immigrants are not adequately prepared to respond to natural disasters, mainly because they are not sufficiently fluent in English. Consequently, they suffer a worse fate in the aftermath of such disasters. In a similar vein,…
What is up with UCLA’s Chinese placement test? Currently students may only take the placement test in the Mandarin dialect, the standard language of mainland China and Taiwan. Of course, Mandarin is a very useful dialect to know, since it is the most widely spoken language in the…
In the 90s, ‘cybering’ referred to the non-exchange of bodily fluids kind of sex – internet sex. Moreover, it involved a connection between individuals across any distance, a rarity in the age of pre MySpace. But hey, who really uses the word ‘cybering’ anymore? With the cyber space…