Why are more and more students at UM learning Portuguese? In this issue’s cover story, we interview some non-Portuguese majors to learn about their motivations and methods for learning the language (Article/Video). Ricardo Brito from Cape Verde is also passionate about language, except the object of his passion is Chinese. In ‘Tell Us Your Story’, he shares how he taught himself to speak fluent Mandarin (Article/Video). If you don’t speak any foreign language but still hope to make friends from different countries, maybe you can try football, as someone once said that football is a universal language that connects people from around the world. Here on our campus, there are also many football lovers. Why do they love football so much (Article)?   

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