who is Jenifer zhang?
The interviewee in this video is Jennifer Zhang, a freshman in Emory University. She is the first generation immigrant from Fuzhou, China. She moved to US at the age of 5 or 6 with her family. So basically Jennifer was raised in complete Chinese environment at very young age and after she moved to US, she is involved in bilingual environment by speaking mandarin Chinese back at home and speaking English in the school. Jennifer also spoke Fuzhou Hua, which is a dialect sounds different from mandarin at very young age. in the video, Jenifer shares her story about learning several languages at different ages of her, how her memory system processes with them and how the language environment affects her pace of learning languages. Hope you enjoy the video!
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