Abroad Perspective: The CET Podcast

Abroad Perspective explores the nexus of language, study abroad and other life/work/academic skills and how the combination of these skills leads students down their career paths. In each episode, CET Academic Programs staff members Jason Wang and Allegra O’Donoghue interview China and MENA program alumni to ask “You did what where??” as alumni share stories of why they chose to study Chinese or Arabic and how they found their career paths after graduation.

Wang Peng, Li You & Transmitting Ideas Across Cultures [CET005]

Studying a foreign language takes you from a to b, but what’s in the middle? For Marian Stacey that space in the middle was discovering a world of ideas previously inaccessible to her. From a humble beginning in the CET […] The post Wang Peng, Li You & Transmitting Ideas Across Cultures appeared first on CET Academic Programs.

02-10
32:14

Double your Experience, Redouble Your Gains [CET004]

Ask any language student, and they will tell you that nothing beats studying a language intensively in-country! In this episode, meet John Ambrose, the CET Jordan alum who loved his first semester studying intensive Arabic at CET so much that […] The post Double your Experience, Redouble Your Gains appeared first on CET Academic Programs.

09-29
27:49

Study Abroad but Network at Home [CET 003]

By the time he started his Classical Chinese classes at George Washington University, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga had baseball victories over the Fudan high school team and Chinese terminology for the Korean nuclear crisis under his belt! He describes how his early […] The post Study Abroad but Network at Home appeared first on CET Academic Programs.

07-08
30:05

Continuing to Learn: Language Beyond CET [CET 002]

Can you love language learning so much that you make it your career path? Yes! In this episode, we speak with CET Beijing alumna Liz Carter, who didn’t plan on becoming a translator, but kept learning and immersing in Mandarin […] The post Continuing to Learn: Language Beyond CET appeared first on CET Academic Programs.

06-01
29:02

Humor Spin & Persuasion: Language Skills for the Real World [CET001]

Not sure what you’re going to do with your language skills? Neither was Morgan. But as he studied Arabic, he remained open to many prospects, tried new things, discovered learning opportunities in unlikely places, and remained patient… especially through the […] The post Humor, Spin & Persuasion: Language Skills for the Real World appeared first on CET Academic Programs.

04-22
29:36

Do language skills equal a job? [CET 000]

Welcome to the new CET podcast Abroad Perspective with your hosts Jason Wang and Allegra O’Donoghue! We manage intensive language programs for Chinese and Arabic at CET and a couple of years ago were given the opportunity to address the […] The post Do Language Skills = Job? appeared first on CET Academic Programs.

04-08
05:24

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