Live, Laugh, Languages with IA 3rd and 4th years
Academic Event Reflection
9 November 2020, Zoom, 7pm-8pm
This event opened my eyes to the experiences that other Ohio State students have had learning other languages. The languages that were represented in this meeting were Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and a few more that were mentioned while people were answering questions about their experiences. I found their inspirations to learn the languages to be interesting to me because I usually assume that people that major in certain languages often major in them because of a certain career path, but it seemed like most of the speakers in this meeting were inspired to learn their particular languages because they wanted to interact with native speakers of that language in a more informal setting or because they had some prior experience learning that language through traveling or living in a country where it was spoken often. This made me want to take language classes at OSU, but unfortunately, even with taking five years, I will not have enough space in my schedule to add them to my schedule. This related to international affairs because it is important to know other about other languages and cultures to interact with people from other nations. I just gained more of a desire to learn languages, although I have been interested in learning more languages for many years now. This related to what I have learned in my language classes and just what I have learned about in the context of international affairs. After this event, I would like to know more about other language programs at OSU.