On the Same Page: Voices of Berkeley Welcome Video
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0:03 - 0:04Oh, should I look at the camera?
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0:04 - 0:05Okay.
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0:05 - 0:06Ready?
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0:07 - 0:09I hope that I can do it.
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0:09 - 0:11It's this camera or this camera?
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0:11 - 0:12Okay. That is what I thought.
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0:12 - 0:13Alright.
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0:13 - 0:13Five.
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0:14 - 0:14[Speaking in Italian]
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0:14 - 0:15[Speaking in Hupa]
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0:15 - 0:15[Speaking in Farsi]
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0:15 - 0:16[American Sign Language]
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0:16 - 0:17Hi, congratulations.
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0:17 - 0:19[Speaking in Spanish]
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0:20 - 0:21What a great school to be in.
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0:21 - 0:22[Speaking in Italian]
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0:22 - 0:24[Speaking in Swahili]
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0:25 - 0:27Congratulations on coming to
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0:27 - 0:28one of the world’s premier universities.
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0:28 - 0:30[Speaking in Farsi]
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0:30 - 0:32[Speaking in Korean]
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0:32 - 0:34There’s just no place like it on earth.
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0:34 - 0:37The On the Same Page Program
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0:37 - 0:39is a signature event for the
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0:39 - 0:41College of Letters and Science
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0:41 - 0:42for all of our incoming students,
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0:42 - 0:43freshmen and transfers.
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0:43 - 0:45The idea is to give this
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0:45 - 0:47large group of incoming freshmen
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0:47 - 0:49a common academic experience,
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0:49 - 0:51something to talk about,
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0:51 - 0:52something a bit intellectual.
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0:52 - 0:54It’s one of the first occasions,
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0:54 - 0:56we hope, among many that
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0:56 - 0:57you’ll get to meet senior professors
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0:57 - 0:58in your first year at Cal.
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0:58 - 1:00This year it’s going to be about language.
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1:00 - 1:02We have here at Berkeley,
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1:02 - 1:03as you all discover very quickly,
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1:03 - 1:05students from more than 100 countries.
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1:05 - 1:07What can matter more than language?
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1:08 - 1:10So, hi, my name’s Virginia Chung.
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1:10 - 1:11And I speak Chipinglish.
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1:12 - 1:14And I call that because I speak Chinese,
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1:14 - 1:15Japanese and English.
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1:15 - 1:17So I call it Chipinglish.
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1:17 - 1:18[Speaking in Turkish]
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1:18 - 1:20[Speaking in Rumanian]
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1:20 - 1:21[Speaking in Spanish]
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1:21 - 1:23You realize I’m British, right?
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1:23 - 1:25So, I was born in China.
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1:25 - 1:27I came to the United States
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1:27 - 1:29when I was 17 years old.
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1:29 - 1:30My mother came to Cal
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1:30 - 1:31in the 1940s.
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1:31 - 1:33And her first language was Spanish.
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1:33 - 1:35And she came here to be an English major.
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1:35 - 1:36My dream job would be
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1:36 - 1:37to interpret for the U.N.
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1:38 - 1:40I barely spoke any English
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1:40 - 1:41when I first came here.
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1:41 - 1:43So we’re always re-inventing
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1:43 - 1:43ourselves through language.
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1:44 - 1:45I’m in the business program.
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1:45 - 1:47I just got in.
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1:47 - 1:48I was nervous.
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1:48 - 1:50I didn’t know what I was talking about.
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1:50 - 1:53Don was awed by the hat rack.
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1:53 - 1:56Don was awed by the hat rack.
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1:56 - 1:58This year the experiment for the
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1:58 - 2:00On the Same Page Program is called
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2:00 - 2:01Start by Talking Back.
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2:01 - 2:03We’ve got these sentences that
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2:03 - 2:04will pop up on the screen.
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2:04 - 2:06You have a little audio recorder
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2:06 - 2:08that pops up in the web browser.
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2:08 - 2:10You click on record and say something like
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2:10 - 2:15This wheel’s red spokes show why mud is no boon.
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2:15 - 2:17This is like the King’s Speech.
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2:17 - 2:19We map it in Google Maps.
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2:19 - 2:21So that everybody can listen to each other.
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2:21 - 2:22You have a dot on the map
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2:22 - 2:24that stands for you
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2:24 - 2:26and a dot that stands for everybody else
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2:26 - 2:27in the incoming class
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2:27 - 2:29who’s participated in the program.
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2:29 - 2:30And you can listen to each other,
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2:30 - 2:33sort of see what you sound like.
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2:33 - 2:35You know, we always say Berkeley,
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2:35 - 2:36it’s one of the most diverse universities
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2:36 - 2:37in the world.
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2:37 - 2:39And I ask myself, is it more diverse
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2:39 - 2:40than a street corner in San Francisco?
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2:40 - 2:41Is it more diverse
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2:41 - 2:43than a street corner in Shanghai?
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2:43 - 2:44You know, the really great thing
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2:44 - 2:46about coming to Berkeley is
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2:46 - 2:47you can design an experiment to actually
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2:47 - 2:49get an answer to that question.
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2:49 - 2:50How diverse is Berkeley?
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2:50 - 2:52You won’t know until you come here.
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2:52 - 2:54That was, that was hard.
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2:54 - 2:57That was hard.
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2:57 - 3:00If you check the On the Same Page website
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3:00 - 3:03you will see a feast of events,
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3:03 - 3:05including faculty panels.
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3:05 - 3:08A discussion group led by a faculty member.
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3:08 - 3:09A contest.
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3:09 - 3:11And a keynote event with Geoff Nunberg.
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3:11 - 3:12Well, the event is going to be a
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3:12 - 3:16conversation about bilingualism among people
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3:16 - 3:18who are artists and scientists
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3:18 - 3:19and who work with bilingualism.
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3:19 - 3:20It’s an extraordinary topic.
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3:20 - 3:23We have a website or you can follow
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3:23 - 3:25us on Twitter or on Facebook.
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3:25 - 3:28We’re really looking forward to seeing
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3:28 - 3:31you here on campus and hearing your voices here.
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3:31 - 3:34Now it’s your turn to be the Bear.
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3:34 - 3:36Don’t I get to hold the Bear?
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3:36 - 3:37Go Bears!
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3:37 - 3:38[Speaking in Bengali]
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3:38 - 3:41[Speaking in Japanese]
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3:41 - 3:45Oski
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3:45 - 3:46Go Bears.
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3:46 - 3:48[Speaking in Italian]
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3:48 - 3:49[Speaking in Mandarin]
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3:49 - 3:51Enjoy it while you can
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3:51 - 3:52because it goes by really quickly.
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3:56 - 3:58That was fun.
- Title:
- On the Same Page: Voices of Berkeley Welcome Video
- Description:
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Every year the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley offers its incoming students something to talk about--with one another and our faculty. This year's theme is the Voices of Berkeley: linguistic diversity. We're inviting our new students to participate in a linguistic experiment, and explore the linguistic diversity of our campus in many ways: one-time discussions with faculty, public events, a one-minute video contest, freshman seminars, and other courses. Details at http://onthesamepage.berkeley.edu.
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 04:05