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:

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NSLI-Y VSI Highlights: Cooking and Cultural Exchange

Below are some highlights of food and cooking-related activities that NSLI-Y students took part in this past summer.
An image of Alejandra in traditional Korean dress with a member of her host family

Global

The NSLI-Y Host Family Connection Collaboration

Halden is from Pinehurst, NC and participated in the China Summer 2018 and Taiwan AY 2020-2021 programs.
Pickering Foreign Affairs Program logo

Global

Two Alums Awarded the 2021 Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship

John Leake (Russian Summer 2014) and Mary Bohn (Korean Academic Year 2013-14) were recently awarded the 2021 Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship. The Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Fellowship is a U.S. Department of State program...
MacKenna and a friend in a traditional Korean hanbok

Korean

The Truth about NSLI-Y!

MacKenna is from St. Louis, MO and an alumna of the 2019 Korean Summer program in Seoul, South Korea. Getting accepted to NSLI-Y, attending orientation a few months later, and hopping onto a plane to Seoul, Seoul Korea was a whirlwind.
Helen Headshot

Korean

Memories of a Summer Spent Learning Korean

Helen is from Baltimore, MD and an alumna of the Korean 2020 Virtual Summer Intensive program. Reflecting on this past summer, I find that I don’t think of the sticky humidity of July or the salty spray of ocean foam. Instead, I think of the five weeks I spent as a NSLI-Y VSI student...
Joanna Teaching Korean This Summer

Korean

From Student to Teacher: Joanna’s NSLI-Y Journey Comes Full Circle

Joanna is from North Carolina and an alumna of the 2009 Korean Academic Year program in Seoul, South Korea. She also served as a Korean Instructor for the 2020 Korean Virtual Summer Intensive Program...
Marguerite with the Korean books she read during her VSI program

Korean

Experiencing Korean Culture Virtually

Marguerite is from Paramus, NJ and an alumna of the Korean 2020 Virtual Summer Intensive program. You would think that it is impossible to experience a culture virtually. That’s definitely what I thought when I heard that NSLI-Y would be going virtual. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there would be multiple cultural activities...
Karim displaying the Pajeon he made

Korean

Learning Korean Virtually: A Reflection

Karim is from Tampa, FL and an alumnus of the Korean 2020 Virtual Summer Intensive program. Throughout the months of July and August, Karim took on the adventure
Header image with title "NSLI-Y VSI 2020 Highlights: Networking Activities" with two slightly transparent images in the background: one with a map of Taiwan and Taiwanese dishes, the other of a man in from of a sign that says "American Chamber of Commerce."

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NSLI-Y VSI Highlights: Students Virtually Connect and Network

NSLI-Y's Virtual Summer Intensive offered students the opportunity to connect and network with locals and guests of program countries.