Like a spy, I live a double life: at school, I’m American, speaking English with my friends, but at home, I’m Korean, speaking a different tongue with my immigrant parents. I would say I’m pretty proficient in Korean; I can beg my parents for Thai food takeout, or chuckle at their cringe-worthy jokes. But when it comes to idioms, politics, or anything other than basic conversation topics, the language barrier sets in, and my mind draws a blank. I desperately want to take part in my parent’s discussion about the upcoming presidential campaign, but half of the time, I’m asking, “What does [Korean word] mean?” “What is [Korean word] in English?”
This is where my engineering project would take place. With funding, I would develop Robo-Translator,
This is where my engineering project would take place. With funding, I would develop Robo-Translator,