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From Trilingual to Monolingual: Losing My Chinese Dialects and Learning English

BLOGSBy Angela LiFebruary 29, 2020Leave a comment

English is not my first language. It’s also not my second language. I grew up listening to and speaking an amalgamation of three different Chinese dialects: Mandarin, Cantonese, and Fujianese. Most children play with dolls and teddy bears – I spent the first four-and-a-half years of my life playing with combinations of these three dialects.…

Fowler Out Loud Features Multilingual Student Performance

WeekliesBy Jehan KaziFebruary 10, 2016Leave a comment

With stringed lights twinkling above the Fowler Museum courtyard and colored spotlights illuminating the stage, Raunak Rupani entered with his two guitars, smiling at the crowd. Last Thursday, the Fowler Out Loud concert series hosted two diverse musical acts. To open the night was +Adam, a fusion and spoken word band inspired by the riot…

Isn’t Cantonese “Chinese” too?

OPINIONBy Pacific TiesJanuary 30, 2009Leave a comment

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 world today.  However, Cantonese is a major…

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