Month: January 2023

Chinese Conversation Club Winter Meetings

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Welcome back for Winter Quarter classmates! This quarter the Chinese conversation club will be meeting regularly on Mondays from 4:30 – 5:30pm, typically in Miller hall 131 if it is available. Anyone interested in practicing their Mandarin Chinese is welcome to attend, whether you are a first-year student, a grad student or just someone doing some independent study. Activities during regular meetings will vary. We play games, watch videos, or occasionally have guest lessons from native speakers.

Monday January 23rd we will be learning some techniques of Chinese calligraphy from professor Claudia Liu. Art supplies will be available, but if you have your own materials we recommend you bring some.

In order to stay up to date with the latest club news and announcements about exact meeting locations, we recommend that you join the club discord and say hello: https://discord.gg/cPeMHcAHEK

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WWU’s Chinese Conversation Club is a place to get together with other language learners to improve their Mandarin speaking skills.

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Call for Submissions

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新年快乐大家！ Happy New Year everyone!
Winter quarter of 2023 has begun, and we are launching our very first student-run magazine for the Modern and Classical Languages Department. This little baby bird needs all the help it can get to grow strong and fly from the nest, and we’re asking for your help!

Why Contribute?

  • Looks great on your resume
  • Get experience with publication processes
  • Some professors may offer extra credit
  • Show off your work
  • Improve your language skills
  • Meet other students from the department

If you are interested in contributing to the magazine in any way, please reach out to our editors. We would love to hear your ideas and be happy to work with you to design a contribution that suits your talents and interests. If you don’t already have something you would like to share, fear not! We have many article and content concepts that just need the right author, researcher or reporter to step up and take them.

We will be working hard to grow 镜 into a well-respected publication at Western. Our goal is that being published here will be a highlight of student resumes, and serve as examples of your work that can demonstrate skills to future employers or colleges.

How to Get Involved?

The best way is to join our discord: https://discord.gg/rYHcX24e
There we will be discussing and assigning article concepts, as well as helping each other with translations, editing, and questions. Join and reach out in a text channel related to your interest.

Alternatively, if you aren’t a fan of Discord, you can reach out to our editors via the form on the contribute page.

Looking forward to reading, hearing, or seeing your submissions!

你好 WWU!

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大家好！Welcome to the first ever letter from the editor of Western Washington University’s brand new student run multilingual magazine, 镜 (Jìng – Mirror). As the first Executive Editor, please allow me to introduce the concept for our magazine.

The core purpose of 镜 is to showcase and promote the activities of the Modern and Classical Languages Department and its students. While core content will be related to department activities, anyone in our community of language learners is welcome to submit contributions to our magazine. As long as the content is related to language learning, our editors will review submissions and work with creators to get their work published. Not only academic articles are welcome, but also short stories, poetry, comics, artwork, and multimedia such as videos or audio.

Though for the time being we are focusing on Chinese program related content, if you are interested in being involved as an editor or regular contributor for another language, please reach out! If there is enough interest we are open to expanding the to other languages in future quarters.

Content of all levels of learning is welcome and appreciated here. We are about progress, not perfection. I myself am currently only in the first year of the Chinese program pursuing the minor. Even if our editors are not yet advanced enough to assist or critique a complex translation, we can help find resources to review pieces above our level and work with creators on an individual basis.

We are very excited to start creating content related to all facets of the language learning programs here at Western, and I look forward to reading, hearing, and seeing your submissions!