The East Asian Studies Center (EASC) is pleased to offer an online version of the program created to help faculty and staff at The Ohio State University learn to pronounce Chinese names. Students from China make up a large portion of the international student population at Ohio State, and EASC has heard from numerous faculty and staff that they would like to make these students feel welcome and a part of the community by pronouncing their names as accurately as possible.
 
To this end, EASC partnered with a former graduate student of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures to offer an online workshop, "Pronouncing Chinese Names.” The mini-lecture includes information on names in China, provides pronunciation tips, gives advice on how to handle Chinese students’ adoption of Western names, and includes practice sessions pronouncing common names in China. The videos are available on  EASC's website and EASC's youtube channel.