Chinese

• May I Take Your Chinese Class?   Danielle Kramer
• My Summer Plans   Sang Wan Lee
• My College Life   Soyoung Park
• Summer Internship in Germany   Kelly Nakamura
• My Summer Plans   Yoo Li Kim
• A Letter to My Friend   Stephany Park
• I Was Misunderstood   Yiwen Jia
• Misunderstanding   Todd Snider
• Between Husband and Wife   Christine Lin
• Share the Weal and Woe   Christopher Chien
• Between Husband and Wife   Elaine Tsai
• Happy Marriage   Jessica Wu
• Between Husband and Wife   Mengxin Liu
• Ideal Couple   Nan Zhang
• Women Returning to the Kitchen   Jennifer Park
• Men Take Care of the Outside; Women Take Care of the Inside   I-Shan Tam
• Women Returning to the Kitchen   Gengqin Xu
• Women Returning to the Kitchen   Queenie Wong
• Women Returning to the Kitchen   Tommy Li
• An Old Legend   Steven Mikes
• Teresa Teng: Symbols of Chinese Popular Culture in the 1980s   Shirley Huang
• Beards on Ancient Chinese Figures   Connie Lin
• Beauty in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms   Rose Huang
• Cao Cao Versus Liu Bei   Brien Lee
• Friendship in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms   Shirley Huang
• The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Computer Games and Me   Sheung Huen Leung

French

• Sondage sur la Mondialisation   Kanishk Laroya
• "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" and "Hernani"   Nicole Hallinen
• Là-Bas... N’y va pas (There - Don't Go): Analysis of a Song   Nicole Hallinen
• An Analysis of "Le Grand Jour", a Song from the Musical Les Miserables   Lauren Balderston
• Analysis of the Urbain Desbois’ song “Ô Quebecor”   Carol Carneiro

Hispanic Studies

• El ganso de la monda (The Fashionable Goose)   Liana Rosenberg
• Dos mundos – la fantasía y la realidad (Two Worlds - Fantasy and Reality)   Reema Patel
• Después de la filmación (After Filming)   Daiji Kano
• Mi vida como un fauno (My Life as a Faun)   Shaina Stacy
• El monstruo solo (The Lonely Monster)   Katy Olesnavage
• Study Abroad Journal Entry, February 20, 2008. Havana, Cuba   Matt Siffert (Written in English)
• Cuban Art   Matt Siffert (Written in English)

Japanese

• Japanese Comedian Tamura and His Book "Homeless Middle School Student"   Youn Soo Chae
• My Mother   Jihea Park
• The Bond Between My Sister and I   Michael Oh
• My Father and My Family   Lisa Young
• My Brother and I   Hanae Kobayashi
• When I Was a Child   Daiji Kano
• My Mother's Happiness   Caitlinn Cork
• My Sister-In-Law Candidate   Evelyn Chang
• An Experience with Money   Amanda Burch
• My Brother   Eugene Choi
• Haiku Translation and Anglophone Views of Japan   Michael Hartwell
• Japanese Viewpoint on Marriage   Vanessa Kwong
• Memories with My Sister   Michael Lee
• My Father's Defining Characteristic   Ryan Sakauye
• The Solo Trouble-Solver, My Sister   Michael Shin
• A Memory with My Brother   Yeon Yoon Ji

Russian

• Bear; Bird   Shannon Deep (Written in English)
• Peter the Great   Claire Bouffard
• A Trip of a Lifetime   Spencer Huff (Written in English)

Thanks to all for the contributions. 57 articles were submitted for the Spring 2008 issue. Each article submitted was entered into a drawing for two $50 gift certificates, funded by Alumna Patricia Askwith Kenner. The drawing was performed at the department faculty meeting on 4/9/2008. Congratulations to Daiji Kano ("After Filming") and Vanessa Kwong ("Japanese Viewpoint on Marriage"), who won the gift certificates.

Thanks also to Nicole Hallinen, who encouraged MLSAC members to contribute articles to Polyglot.

Contact Information:
Sue-mei Wu, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese
Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University
160 Baker Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/facpages/suemei/