Tag: foreign language
De Chavez on why Korean is a “super-hard” language
2025 Feb 27
Senior Lecturer Mark Rae De Chavez gave his presentation, “‘Inside You There Are Two Wolves’: Korean Grammar and Loan Paradigms,” during the first installment of the…
Faculty Spotlight: Poi Canilao
2024 Aug 19
One of the main thrusts of the Department is the teaching of the national languages of Asia. We are thus very fortunate to have Assistant Professorial Fellow…
Kritsana Canilao assesses Filipinos learning standard Thai tones
2023 Dec 28
For the final installment of the Talks on Asian Languages (TAL) this year, assistant professorial fellow Dr. Kritsana A. Canilao discussed some of her findings regarding…
Faculty Spotlight: Joanna Tecson
2023 Oct 02
Chinese language lecturer Maria Joanna Tecson joined the Department in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. That rocky and uncertain period…
UPD x KUFS Tandem Language Learning Sessions
2021 Dec 22
The Tandem Language Learning (Tandem Learning) sessions of the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS) have concluded this December. The…