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Hi everyone! I'm a medical student who loves languages and wants to use them to be a doctor around the world. I enjoy poetry and literature, as well as translation and linguistics. 土生土長美國人 留台學醫5年 台灣政治學熱愛者 歡迎各位來語言交換
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    Studying language lets you learn about people. I want to communicate with as many people as I can, and understand foreign cultures as much as possible =p

     

    It's amazing to think that if you just live in 1 place and know 1 language, you're missing out on all the amazing diversity of thought and life experience on planet Earth.

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    Multilingual Explosion! (Eng, Es, Fr, 中文) Hello everyone, it isn't always practical, but I love the idea of multilingual music, literature, conversations- there's a lot of uncharted territory with multilingualism! En general, la majoria de personas usan lenguas differentas en situaciones differentes. Par example, vous pouvez utiliser votre langue maternelle au maison, votre deuxieme langue en publique, et votre troisieme langue en votre travail avec les clients qui viennent d'autres pais.可是，我觉得这是个比较无聊的生活方式。更乱的用法，那就更酷。 In what ways do all of you use your different languages? ustedes oviamente quieren apprender o practicar las lenguas extranjeras, como incluirlas en la vida cotidiana? C'est un grand défi, ou pas une probleme?请告诉我吧！
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    Mikhail, as a native english speaker I first have to say that your English is phenomenal. If I hadn't looked at your profile, I wouldn't have known you aren't a native speaker.

     

    As for my thoughts on your proposed topic, I can attest that here in America there is plenty of anti-Chinese sentiment .We owe them an incredible amount of debt, 1.4 trillion US $ I believe, and many working-class Americans view the Chinese as stealing American manufacturing jobs while wantonly polluting the global environment and abusing human rights. The reality is far more complicated than that, but the world is always more complicated than an average populace cares to understand.

    At the same time, mandarin immersion programs are popping up all over the country, the number of students from mainland China coming to American Universities is growing exponentially, and as you may know  Presidents Xi Jinping and Obama recently spent a weekend together trying to build a friendship.

    I think economic necessity and inate curiousty about the rest of the world trumps hatred and stereotypes, even if it's occuring subconsciously.

     

     

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    For any language, re-immersing yourself (through reading, watching tv, talking to yourself, any combination of methods that you prefer) will bring back the language faster than you can imagine. Even after essentially a 4 year hiatus, you will find you are actually better than you were years ago, as when the human brain learns any languge, its capacity to communicate and remember improves in all languages, including the dormant ones.

     

    Don'y be embarrased or upset with yourself, just keep speaking French! En cette esprit, je te dis bonne courage!Ne regrette rien!

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