{"id":12516,"date":"2018-12-17T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:12:49","slug":"exploring-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/2018\/12\/17\/exploring-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every Friday Sept. 14-Dec. 14th – <\/strong>The Japanese Language Program hosted a Japanese-English lunch exchange with CELOP students every week in the GSU. This lunch hour was open to all students and offered students of both native languages the opportunity to practice their language skills with other students by conversing freely with one another. The October 5th CELOP lunch included an info session with a representative from the Consulate General of Japan in Boston, where she discussed the JET Program, (Japan Exchange Teaching Program). The total number of attendees over the course of 13 weeks surpassed 300 students!<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to see a series of photos from CELOP events throughout the semester!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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November 3 – <\/strong>Boston Area Speech Event at Wellesley College. The two BU representatives, Edward Lui (LJ303 sec. A1) and Nadine Chen (LJ441) presented their wonderful speeches and everyone from other 8 colleges in Boston area loved their presentations. Edward’s title is\u300cLost in \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u306e\u30af\u30e9\u30b9\u301c\u3042\u3042\u3001\u6065\u305a\u304b\u3057\u3044\uff01\u300d<\/span>He presented his embarrassing experience in Japanese class in very funny way. Nadine’s title is\u300c\u5b63\u7bc0\u306e\u5473\u308f\u3044\u300dHer speech was about\u00a0 how Japanese food beautifully relates to the four seasons in Japan.<\/p>\n

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(L-R) LJ instructor Mihoko Yaig, LJ 303 student Edward Lui (CAS ’20), LJ 441 student Nadine Chen (CAS ’20), and LJ Instructor Mariko Henstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 12 –\u00a0<\/strong>The Japanese Program had the first “Japan Day” event! All Japanese language students from 111 to 400-level students got together during their class hours at Terrace Lounge in GSU.\u00a0 Representatives from each section presented their works and students learned about our program\/courses, study abroad, alumni’s career paths, and job opportunities.<\/p>\n

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October 26 –\u00a0<\/strong>Haunted School! The Japanese Student Association (JSA) hosted an event that was as equally haunted as it was entertaining and educational. Students had to navigate their way through a haunted school, complete necessary tasks and make it out without any troubles. This event was highly successful and students of all language levels enjoyed the experiences.<\/p>\n

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November 30 –\u00a0<\/strong>The Japanese Student Association hosted yet another majorly successful event: the Japanese Sushi Formal. Over 100 students attended the formal at the beautiful Metcalf Trustee Ballroom on the 9th floor of the Questrom School of Business where they enjoyed the formal party as well as some traditional sushi!<\/p>\n

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Every Friday Sept. 14-Dec. 14th – The Japanese Language Program hosted a Japanese-English lunch exchange with CELOP students every week in the GSU. This lunch hour was open to all students and offered students of both native languages the opportunity to practice their language skills with other students by conversing freely with one another. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22880],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12536,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions\/12536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}