{"id":7586,"date":"2018-12-20T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages-draft\/?page_id=7586"},"modified":"2018-12-20T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:53:46","slug":"global-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/global-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/20\/alison-otto\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/AlisonOtto-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Alison Otto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/AlisonOtto-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/AlisonOtto-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/20\/alison-otto\/\">Alison Otto<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">One of the highlights of Ali Otto's capstone year studying and working in Germany was the moment when two women there expressed amazement at her level of German \"I had started in German 101 my first year and my fluency improved so much,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/20\/meredith-shubel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/MeredithShubel-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Meredith Shubel\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/MeredithShubel-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/MeredithShubel-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/20\/meredith-shubel\/\">Meredith Shubel<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Meredith always hoped to spend a semester studying abroad to hone her language skills. At first she assumed it would be out of her reach, but she was able to go abroad without having to pay additional tuition through an exchange program in the city of Rennes, France.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/20\/sandra-deeb\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/SandraDeebStudio-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sandra Deeb, French IEP &#039;20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/SandraDeebStudio-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/SandraDeebStudio-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/20\/sandra-deeb\/\">Sandra Deeb<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sandra Deeb would like to help discover new forms of renewable energy that uses the power of the oceans. Knowing how to study and work in another language is something she feels will help her work because the field of ocean engineering is very international.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/07\/richard-lisi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/RichardLisi-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Richard Lisi\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/RichardLisi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/RichardLisi-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/07\/richard-lisi\/\">Richard Lisi<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Making time for language study was a priority for Richard, a kinesiology student and aspiring physician, because the Italian language and culture is an important part of his heritage.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/07\/cynthia-malambi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/CynthiaMalambi-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cynthia Malambi, political science, French and Chinese student\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/CynthiaMalambi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/CynthiaMalambi-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/12\/07\/cynthia-malambi\/\">Cynthia Malambi<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Growing up in West Africa, Cynthia learned French in school, and is comfortable with the idea of mastering new languages. Swahili and Lingala were spoken at home and she heard Kikongo, Fon, and Mina during her years spent at a refugee camp in Benin.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/11\/27\/4382\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/EmilyHadfield-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Emily Hadfield\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/EmilyHadfield-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/EmilyHadfield-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/2018\/11\/27\/4382\/\">Emily Hadfield<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">The first thing that most people say when Emily tells them she is studying Chinese is that it must be hard. \u201cIt\u2019s not hard,\u201d she usually responds. \u201cIt\u2019s different.\u201d<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7586","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7592,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7586\/revisions\/7592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}