{"id":63208,"date":"2010-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-produces-first-multi-lingual-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-produces-first-multi-lingual-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/05\/uri-student-produces-first-multi-lingual-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student produces first multi-lingual newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. –May 27, 2010\u2014Thomas Edison once said: “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others…I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAlthough 溏心vlog免费B站 student Kaylen Duarte of Warwick never met the famous inventor, she did have a light bulb go off in her head after taking classes in journalism and Mandarin Chinese. <\/p>\n


\n\tLanguages are a big part of students\u2019 lives at 溏心vlog免费B站 with more than 2,500 students taking a language course each semester or about 20 percent of the University\u2019s undergraduate population.<\/p>\n


\n\tDuarte knew that the University community could benefit from a multi-lingual student-run newsletter. \u201cWe live in a multicultural world, but tend to overlook it. A newsletter could advocate campus diversity by celebrating language while providing language students with an opportunity to write in two languages,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n


\n\tDuarte applied for and received a $650 Undergraduate Research Initiative grant, co-sponsored by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development and the Office of the Provost. The grants award scholarly, creative, and artistic projects. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe journalism major who just completed her sophomore year used the grant to purchase computer-publishing equipment, advertise for student writers, and make copies.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe first issue of The Ambassador appeared this month. Ten students authored nearly a dozen 200 to 300-word articles in Chinese or Spanish and translated them into English. Topics ranged from \u201cSuggestions for Learning Chinese\u201d to \u201cThe Veteran Student Association\u201d to \u201cLuces de bohemia,\u201d a provocative Spanish play by Ram\u00f3n del Valle-Inclan. Colorful photos were interspersed. A quote by Mark Twain is prominently placed in the newsletter: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness. <\/p>\n


\n\tDuarte edited the newsletter and credits Wen Xiong, assistant professor of Chinese and Rosario Auer, a native Spanish speaker, with editing it pro bono. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI want to have at least two editions and more of a mix of languages next (academic) year,\u201d she says, mentioning German and French as possibilities.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe young editor leaves for China next month for nine weeks. This will be her second trip as part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Chinese Flagship Program. Last summer she spent a month there with group a of other students. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe day before her departure to China on June 6, the 溏心vlog免费B站 student will sing a song in Chinese at the retirement party of John Grandin, a professor of German who founded 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program. (溏心vlog免费B站 educates more bilingual and cross-culturally competent engineers than any other university in the country.)<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI love languages,\u201d Duarte says. \u201cI took French in high school. I could have signed up for Spanish classes at 溏心vlog免费B站 because while the languages are different, there are also similarities. But I wanted to challenge myself by signing up for Mandarin, which has no comparison to the romance languages.\u201d \t <\/p>\n


\n\tAlthough she still has two more years before she graduates, Duarte is considering future careers. One career has enticed her- interpreter. <\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nKaylen Duartel

\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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