{"id":1340,"date":"2021-07-01T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2021-07-01T16:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:11:46","slug":"troy-star-chinese-language-camp-brings-students-to-campus-for-an-immersive-learning-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/07\/01\/troy-star-chinese-language-camp-brings-students-to-campus-for-an-immersive-learning-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY-STAR Chinese language camp brings students to campus for an immersive learning experience."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Usually <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a>&#8216;s John Robert Lewis Hall is all about business but for two weeks during the summer a group of high school students are not only learning the Chinese language but getting to know the culture as well at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/about-us\/offices-departments\/international-languages-cultures\/china\/summer-camps\/index.html\">TROY-STAR camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a new cultural experience for them,&#8221; says Camp Coach Sonya Su. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t something that a lot of students actually get to learn a lot of times. When you learn a language you get to actually learn how to say things, how to write things, you don&#8217;t actually get the full cultural experience. With this camp they tried to bring in a lot of different activities to say all right we know you&#8217;re learning the language and we love that you&#8217;re learning the language but to learn a little bit more about the culture and not just hearing about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For one student, the camp is offering an opportunity to better connect with relatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My mom&#8217;s side of the family is Chinese,&#8221; says camper Catherine Hinson. &#8220;If I can learn a little more Chinese it&#8217;ll be really helpful, especially speaking to my grandparents.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Amya&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually Troy University&#8216;s John Robert Lewis Hall is all about business but for two weeks during the summer a group of high school students are not only learning the Chinese language but getting to know the culture as well at the annual TROY-STAR camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a new cultural experience for them,&#8221; says Camp Coach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/07\/01\/troy-star-chinese-language-camp-brings-students-to-campus-for-an-immersive-learning-experience\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[563,580,459],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amya-mitchell","tag-sonya-su","tag-troy-star"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}