{"id":9326,"date":"2011-05-17T09:46:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2011-05-27T10:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T14:19:35","slug":"studying-a-third-language-through-a-second-senior-yue-huang-on-multiple-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/05\/17\/studying-a-third-language-through-a-second-senior-yue-huang-on-multiple-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying a third language through a second: Senior Yue Huang on her BU experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Yue Huang (<a title=\"COM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\" target=\"_blank\">COM&#8217;11<\/a>) traveled from her home in Beijing to Boston University, and quickly learned that although she knew English, her American slang could use some work. She didn&#8217;t stop there &#8212; using her second language to learn her third (Spanish), and eventually her fourth (French). In Points of Departure, Huang talks about growing up in the newsroom, and how languages help her break down barriers to communicate as a journalist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KkxhCWv0k7A\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/12946\" title=\"Yue Huang's BU Today feature\" target=\"blank\">Yue Huang&#8217;s BU Today feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/web\/pod2011\" title=\"Points of Departure\" target=\"blank\">Points of Departure<\/a> landing page to hear more stories from BU seniors.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\ntweetmeme_url = 'http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/05\/17\/studying-a-third-language-through-a-second-senior-yue-huang-on-multiple-language\/';\r\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>  <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/05\/17\/studying-a-third-language-through-a-second-senior-yue-huang-on-multiple-language\/&amp;layout=box_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=50&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=65\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;width:50px;height:65px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Yue Huang (COM&#8217;11) traveled from her home in Beijing to Boston University, and quickly learned that although she knew English, her American slang could use some work. She didn&#8217;t stop there &#8212; using her second language to learn her third (Spanish), and eventually her fourth (French). In Points of Departure, Huang talks about growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4493],"tags":[3218,2753,5392,2849,2200,960,5963,5984,5975,4583,1773,5983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9438,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions\/9438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}