Stories

The NSLI-Y program languages include Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian, Hindi, Korean, Persian (Tajiki), Russian and Turkish. Listed below are all multimedia stories written, and shared by NSLI-Y students, alumni, partners, and supporters. These stories include all NSLI-Y program languages and are ordered chronologically from the most recent post.

Alumni and current students, join the conversation by submitting your own story.

Click on a language below to see stories and media related to a specific NSLI-Y program language:

Displaying Chinese (Mandarin) stories from .

image of nancy posing with her nsli-y completion certificate

Chinese (Mandarin)

My Journey in Jiaxing, China

By Nancy, NSLI-Y China, Summer 2014 14 weeks ago, I sat anxiously on the Delta airplane looking out the window. That was the last glimpse of American terrain th...
image of nsli-y students posing with high school students while holding a banner that says "nsli-y taiwan 2014-2015"

Chinese (Mandarin)

A Weekend With San Hua High School

During the weekend of October 24 through October 25, 2014, the NSLI-Y Taiwan students traveled to San Hua High School in Tainan, where they spent two action-pac...
image of nsli-y students posing together in doors in formal wear with a nsli-y banner

Global

Involvement and Opportunities After NSLI-Y

Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) hosted over 80 NSLI-Y alumni gathered at its McLean, Virginia offices for Pathways to the Future 2014, a career development and n...
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Chinese (Mandarin)

Showing Appreciation for Teachers

NSLI-Y China participants started school just in time to celebrate Teacher's Day with their new classmates. Teacher's Day was on September 10th, and all t...
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Chinese (Mandarin)

Snapshots: China

Get a glimpse into some of the things that NSLI-Y students have been doing during their time in China.
nsli-y students pose with residents of grace home indoors

Chinese (Mandarin)

Getting to Know the Residents of Grace Home

NSLI-Y students in China volunteered with Grace Home, an organization that works with differently-abled local residents. After mingling with the students at Gra...
image of nsli-y students with a resident of a nursing home

Chinese (Mandarin)

Visit to Local Nursing Home

On Thursday, August 1, 2013, students in Deyang visited a retirement home, where they spent the afternoon interacting with the residents who lived there. First,...
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Chinese (Mandarin)

Our Chinese Teacher, Our Queen: 姜老師

By: Christian, NSLI-Y Taiwan, 2013-2014 This post (written to you straight from a random classroom at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages) will describe what a...
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Chinese (Mandarin)

Dabbling in the Ancient Art of Calligraphy

Elaine participated in the 2011 Chinese Summer program. Having previously visited China before my NSLI-Y trip in the summer of 2011, I thought I knew most of w...