Project Exhibition: CHIN 231 Rap Project, Kyle Ariffin

PROJECT NAME
CHIN 231 Rap Project, 说唱项目 (Shuōchàng xiàngmù)

STUDENT
Kyle Ariffin, 艾愷飒 (Ài kǎi sà), He/him

  • 2nd year
  • Faculty of Arts, Intended Major in International Relations
  • Courses: CHIN 231, CHIN 233

 

INTERVIEW


Q1: What inspired you to start learning Mandarin?

My craving for Chinese food and in turn, the necessity to pick-up the language to place orders fluently.


Q2: What is your Chinese learning community like? How has your professor in your classes supported you through your learning challenges as well?

Lin laoshi was a gem — she was extremely approachable and encouraged us to ask questions. Every week, she would compile any grammatical mistakes we made in our assignments and would go through it with the class to refresh and reinforce the content we learnt.


Q3: How has learning Mandarin helped you grow as a student, and how has it influenced your life?

Learning Mandarin has given me access to a plethora of new information and I just feel fulfilled that its sounds and characters have become familiar and intelligible to me, whether it be in songs, movies or passing shop names. This and that I can rap in Mandarin. - to an extent!


Q4: How do you plan on expanding your Mandarin learning journey in the future?

I think I'd just want to surround myself with the language. Maybe I'll pick up a drama or two.