{"id":74,"date":"2024-09-10T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/?p=74"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:26:47","slug":"manys-story-spanish-language-opening-up-communication-and-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/2024\/09\/10\/manys-story-spanish-language-opening-up-communication-and-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Many&#8217;s story: Spanish language opening up communication and empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/files\/2024\/09\/Many-Chomseng-testimonial-photo-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/files\/2024\/09\/Many-Chomseng-testimonial-photo-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/files\/2024\/09\/Many-Chomseng-testimonial-photo-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/files\/2024\/09\/Many-Chomseng-testimonial-photo-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/files\/2024\/09\/Many-Chomseng-testimonial-photo-45x45.jpeg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/files\/2024\/09\/Many-Chomseng-testimonial-photo-65x65.jpeg 65w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/files\/2024\/09\/Many-Chomseng-testimonial-photo.jpeg 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Language Certificate at UFV has prepared me for my career as an educator and to be able to use and grow my knowledge learning about various Latino-Speaking communities, Indigenous populations in Latin America, and Latin American cultures and language. I am grateful for the experiences and interactions within the classroom that I was able to cultivate and use in my daily life and outside experiences. I believe that learning a new language opens up\u00a0many possibilities, builds communication skills and creates empathy towards understanding others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.&#8221; \u2014 Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n<p>Many\u00a0Chomseng<br \/>\nSpanish Language Advanced Proficiency Certificate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Language Certificate at UFV has prepared me for my career as an educator and to be able to use and grow my knowledge learning about various Latino-Speaking communities, Indigenous populations in Latin America, and Latin American cultures and language. I am grateful for the experiences and interactions within the classroom that I was &#8230; <a title=\"Many&#8217;s story: Spanish language opening up communication and empathy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/2024\/09\/10\/manys-story-spanish-language-opening-up-communication-and-empathy\/\" aria-label=\"More on Many&#8217;s story: Spanish language opening up communication and empathy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/mola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}