Is there any good way to find like an online class or something that could recreate that experience? I do not want to try to self-teach a language, that sounds awful lol
Is there any good way to find like an online class or something that could recreate that experience? I do not want to try to self-teach a language, that sounds awful lol
I took a great Chinese class back when there were Confucius Institutes in my area.
Then they shut them all down and, in a year, they were basically dead or dying (mostly dead a.k.a. gone from the scene).
It’s… honestly kinda amazing what happened.
And nobody really talks about it, it seems.
I think about it a lot. as a naive, younger early career academic, the institute was my conceptual escape hatch. their offers for studying in mainland China were incredible and I thought, like a dumbass, “well if things really go teats up here with Bernie, I can make a play.”
it was insane how rapidly they were severed from every R1 campus in favor of massive DoD grants and the institutional silence in the wake continues to fill me with dread.