Linguistics 3C Winter ‘18

Difficulties I Have Had As An International Student

Studying in UCSB is my first experience of studying aboard and living by myself without care of parents. As and international students, there are a lot of challenges I have faced that I believe most international students also experience…

The Benefits of Being an International Student

A lot of people in China always ask me: why do you spend a lot of money and take a long flight to go to the U.S? I think it is for the better education. As we all know, most of the students who go to the top 50 universities in U.S look forward to talking with famous professors…

My Goals for Winter Quarter

Because of the impact of Tomas fire, my first quarter in UCSB ended hastily. I learned a lot by studying and living abroad for the first time. Although at first, I felt quite bothered by managing everything by my own, I overcame all the difficulties and solved problems in the end. However, I still…

Recognition Crisis of Immigrants

Sharing similar characteristics with others, including speaking the same language, having the same custom, or even having the same skin color, can create the sense of belongingness to a certain group or community. People usually categorize a stranger due to how they look…

Identities in Community

Before I came to America, I had always thought that community should be homogenous, consisting of people who are similar to each other. For small communities, like in the elementary school, community involves in genders. Girls are likely to gather together and form a community. Boys are…

Dying Language sets the Future of Cultural Diverisfication

Contemporarily, there are approximately 6,500 spoken languages within the world (infoplease.com). Among them, significant among of languages are on the edge of extinguishing, because most potential speakers who are able to…

Benefits of Being an International Student

The main benefits of studying abroad includes experiencing personal growth, expanding the horizon, improving language skills, making friends from all over the world and so on…

Redefine Our Community

I am an international student from China. In my memory, we really liked to stay together with our friends who had similar hobbies and interests with us in China, and I think it was called a “community.” Because there are not many of immigrants in China, me and my friends speak in the same…

Language and Culture

As a Chinese International student, I speak both Chinese and English in my campus life. In many aspects, I can feel the different between Chinese and English and how they relate to different cultures. And the purpose of language is very easy, communication. If wewant to express our opinion…