Tatiana CP #4

During my last week I met with Yan upstairs for lunch time. I was checking in with her about CEIS, living situation, and her experience here. Her roommate is attending Med School at FSU and all of her neighbors are also doctors. She was explaining to me that it is hard to hangout with them, since they are at the library studying until 11 or 12pm. She told me that their hair was starting to slowly fall out from stress. They are Chinese as well, so she does have companionship and can communicate with them in Chinese. She was also looking at the School of Education at FSU. I know she is interesting in taking the GRE or GMAT. I explained that the GRE or GMAT is what every Master's program application needs in order for someone to get accepted into a Master's program. She is still trying to decide which one to take.  I found it very interesting when she started to explain the Chinese language. She said that for the Chinese language each word is a sound. We were comparing Chinese to the English language where some sounds in a word are not pronounced. In China, every sound is pronounced, which makes it easier. She expressed her frustration with the English language, and asked why do they put many letters in words that are silent or pronounced differently? I did not have an answer for her, but it was a good point that she made. Many words in the English language have special pronunciation rules or silent rules and that is very difficult to pick up on when learning the English language.