{"id":2188,"date":"2016-08-14T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/sla2016\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2016-08-16T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:14:41","slug":"blog-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/2016\/08\/14\/blog-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Entering the seventh week of the summer program, the end is now in sight.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is sometimes hard not to lose focus a bit when studying.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, there is still a lot more ground to cover.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By now I truly feel able to communicate with native speakers at a fairly high level.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I guess the term I would use would be \u201cadaptability.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I am able to enter conversation on almost any topic, and at least hold my ground.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is comforting, for I no longer feel as lost as I once did walking the streets of Beijing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is similar to sports; the game has slowed down.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is getting much easier to understand the accents and quicker pace of speaking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This past weekend, our summer program went to a Chinese movie theatre to watch a movie entirely in Chinese.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Because it did not have subtitles, it truly was a test of our progress.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was excited to find I kept pace with the plot of the movie, and by the end understood almost the entirety of the dialogue.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It really was a fun assurance of the progress I have made so far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entering the seventh week of the summer program, the end is now in sight.\u00a0 It is sometimes hard not to lose focus a bit when studying.\u00a0 However, there is still a lot more ground to cover.\u00a0 By now I truly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/2016\/08\/14\/blog-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}