[Oral History Project] John Oliver Monghit
Oliver graduated with a BA in Linguistics in 2017. While still an undergrad, he received a Chinese Government Scholarship to study Mandarin at Dalian University of Technology for one year. He finished his MA in Chinese Language and Literature at Hanyang University in South Korea as a Global Korea Scholarship recipient. He is currently doing his PhD in Humboldt University in Germany, where he is working on his dissertation on Philippine Hokkien under a DAAD Scholarship.
In this video, he and MA Ling student John Michael De Pano talk about how Oliver got started in linguistics, the root of his passion for learning Chinese and other East Asian languages, and what he learned from his experiences as a UP Lingg student and from having served as a student assistant at the Department when he was an undergrad, which he still applies in his everyday life and career abroad.
Check out this shorter video as well where Oliver shares his tips on learning foreign languages: • [Oral History Project: Extra] John Oliver ...
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ABOUT THE UP DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT (LINGG OHP)
The UP Linguistics Oral History Project features anecdotes, narratives, and institutional chismis gathered from members and friends of the UP Lingg Community. By gathering these individual stories, we hope to piece together the collective memory and larger history of the Department and identify the role that it has played in the lives of different people who have been or are currently affiliated with the Department, as well as the role that it has played in the development and promotion of linguistics and language study in the Philippines from 1922 to the present.
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Date of Interview: May 18, 2023
Interview by: John Michael Vincent De Pano
Video editing by: Elsie Marie Or