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 .

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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...
image of nsli-y students posing in front of a wall with a chinese character on it

Chinese (Mandarin)

Goodbye Beijing, Hello HangZhou

Katerina participated in the 2013-2014 Chinese Academic Year program. The theme of the week in HangZhou was innovation and culture in the ZheJiang province. We...
image of a nsli-y student at a table with multiple different types of tea taking a sip from a glass of tea

Chinese (Mandarin)

Tea Time in China: Drinking in Culture and Language

Having now stayed with their host families for more than a month, NSLI-Y participants at Beijing No. 80 High School have grown more accustomed to the daily rout...
Image of Christian posing with his host mom, dad, and sister outdoors

Chinese (Mandarin)

Studying Chinese with My Two Year Old Sister

Christian Wooddell is from Farmington, Missouri and participated in the 2012- 2013 NSLI-Y Taiwan program. It's been a little over two months now since the sweat...