I Studied Abroad to Improve My Chinese; Here’s What I Learned. On one day in August 2016, I sat alone at my gate at LAX, waiting for the boarding announcement for my flight to Shanghai. I was initially calm as my study abroad program drew near. I had been an exchange student in a […]
Contributed by Lisi Garcia, Founder of Infancia y Educación. Click here for the Spanish version. Spanish is the official language in 21 countries worldwide According to a new report “Spanish, a living language” by the Spain-based nonprofit Instituto Cervantes: There are 559 million Spanish speakersthroughout the world. Spanish is the second native language in the world by number of speakers. […]
Submitted by Emma Withrow, Graduate Student at the University of Tokyo, Japan Two years ago I was living in Yokohama, Japan, a large city just south of Tokyo, and teaching English at a small conversation school. While the experience was full of lessons to be learned and stories to later tell, there were often […]