Hi class,
My name is Erica and this is my third year at CSULB. I am an International Business major and of course a Translation Studies minor. I hope to one day be able to utilize the theories and skills that I learned about in this course/other courses into practice in business setting. What I mean by this is possibly having to interpret data or strategies from a different country into another. I have a huge passion for learning about languages and the functionality of it. I have currently taken four semesters of German and fell in love with the language. I took 5 years of Spanish in high school and I try to keep up with it as much as possible. Both my parents are from China, so Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin) is something I've been taught in my childhood. I find it so fun and engaging when I am able to learn something new especially a new language. I'm really looking forward to this class this semester!