大家好，我是Ha Dinh，是辛辛那提大学(University of Cincinnati)越南国际大使，也是林德纳商学院(Lindner college of business)市场营销与商业经济学的一名大三学生。

我和我的印度好朋友在印度学生活动上

大一的时候，我很少在课上发言，我总担心自己的英语口语带有口音，认为大家不会听我说的。之后，我想找一份校园兼职。在美国，你需要得到教授或教职员工的推荐，在校园工作时亦是如此。 我认识一些教授，当然他们对我知之甚少。最终，我认识到了在课上发言和踊跃参与的重要性，因为这样，教授才会记得我，更多地认识我。

转眼到大二那年，我敦促自己在课堂上更为踊跃发言，在社交活动中自信地向大家做自我介绍。这样，不仅我的英语口语变得更流利(当得知我在美国仅待了一年，我的美国朋友都很吃惊)，我还让教授们知道了我是谁，并对我赞誉有加。

2015年春季，我在我的实习公司——GNGF

我大二的时候，给我授课的教授大多能记住我的名字。有一堂课，我的商业专业课教授还让我帮她指导全班使用LinkedIn。她和我说，她总想能从国际学生那里听到不同的观点。但是，国际学生尤其是亚洲学生在课堂上表现得太安静了，即便她曾尝试多种方法想调动他们的积极性更多地参与大家，结果却依旧不如人意。因此，她很欣赏像我这样愿意在课上和大家分享所感所想的学生。

我参加“与12个陌生人共进晚餐”活动，在辛辛那提与财富500强公司——美国金融集团副总裁

我曾经认为我的想法对我的同学没啥帮助。然而，当我在大二时在课上发言后，我发现国际学生的观点是非常独特的。国际学生在不同的文化背景下成长，能看到可能美国人从未见过的不同的事物。

除了上述原因，参与课堂讨论也帮我发展了批判性思维技能。通过和老师、同学分享我的想法和观点，我将理论联系实践。我觉得人们说的话易被遗忘，除非我们能与他人分享、讨论我们的想法。

总而言之，我完全理解有时候在说另一种语言的母语者面前说这门语言会感到尴尬。你可以这样思考，如果美国人想要说中文或越南语，他们可能也会遇到相同的问题——起初会非常害羞，少言寡语。如果我们想要在语言学习上有所进步，沉默寡言绝不会有所帮助。这也是我们选择要敢于发言、分享想法的原因。

欲知更多关于美国人眼中的国际学生，请点击视频观看：https://youtu.be/AOiUKUud4Ew?list=PLRWDj_9qKzdLqaBftvrKmUswvS94W4mRs

如果您想了解更多辛辛那提大学最新动态，请查看 2015-16年辛辛那提大学国际学生中文手册。

文章系辛辛那提大学中文官方网站原创文章，如需转载请注明来源与链接。

原文阅读

Hello, My name is Ha Dinh. I’m a Vietnamese International Ambassador at University of Cincinnati. I’m also a junior in Marketing and Business Economics in the Lindner college of business.

I didn’t speak much in classes when I was in a freshman. I was afraid of my English accent, and thought people wouldn’t listen to me anyway. Later I wanted to find a part time job on campus. In the States, you need to have recommendations from professors/ faculties including campus jobs. I knew some professors, but obviously they had no idea of what to say about me. I finally realized how important it is to speak up and be active in classes, so that professors would remember me and know me more.

Coming to sophomore year, I pushed myself to speak more in classes and confidently introduce myself to people at networking events. Thus, I not only became more fluent in English (my American friends were actually amazed that I only stayed in the US for less than a year), but also got recognized and complimented from professors.

In most of my sophomore classes, my professors remembered my name. In Business Professionalism class, my professor also let me help her instruct a whole class in a lecture about using LinkedIn. She shared with me that she always wanted to hear different perspectives from international students. However, international students, especially Asian students were so quiet even when she tried different ways to engage them more. Thus, she appreciated to have students like me who like to speak their mind in class.

I used to think that my ideas were useless for my classes. However, as I spoke up my mind during sophomore year, I realized that international students’ ideas were very unique. International grow up in different cultures, see different things that the Americans may have never seen before.

Beyond the above reasons, engaging in class discussions also helps me to develop my critical thinking skills. By sharing my ideas and perspective with my classmates and teachers, I put mental knowledge into practice. In my opinion, the things people say will be easily forgotten unless we actually share our thoughts and contribute to the discussion too.

To summarize, I totally understand that speaking another language in front of native speakers is embarrassing sometimes. You can think this way, if American tries to speak Chinese or Vietnamese, they probably will have same obstacles – very shy, and speechless in the beginning. I think we never become better by keeping quite if we want to make progress in studying and using another language. That’s why we choose to speak up and share our unique ideas.

To know more what American thinks about international students, please check this video: https://youtu.be/AOiUKUud4Ew?list=PLRWDj_9qKzdLqaBftvrKmUswvS94W4mRs

大家好，我是Ha Dinh，是辛辛那提大学(University of Cincinnati)越南国际大使，也是林德纳商学院(Lindner college of business)市场营销与商业经济学的一名大三学生。

我和我的印度好朋友在印度学生活动上

大一的时候，我很少在课上发言，我总担心自己的英语口语带有口音，认为大家不会听我说的。之后，我想找一份校园兼职。在美国，你需要得到教授或教职员工的推荐，在校园工作时亦是如此。 我认识一些教授，当然他们对我知之甚少。最终，我认识到了在课上发言和踊跃参与的重要性，因为这样，教授才会记得我，更多地认识我。

转眼到大二那年，我敦促自己在课堂上更为踊跃发言，在社交活动中自信地向大家做自我介绍。这样，不仅我的英语口语变得更流利(当得知我在美国仅待了一年，我的美国朋友都很吃惊)，我还让教授们知道了我是谁，并对我赞誉有加。

2015年春季，我在我的实习公司——GNGF

我大二的时候，给我授课的教授大多能记住我的名字。有一堂课，我的商业专业课教授还让我帮她指导全班使用LinkedIn。她和我说，她总想能从国际学生那里听到不同的观点。但是，国际学生尤其是亚洲学生在课堂上表现得太安静了，即便她曾尝试多种方法想调动他们的积极性更多地参与大家，结果却依旧不如人意。因此，她很欣赏像我这样愿意在课上和大家分享所感所想的学生。

我参加“与12个陌生人共进晚餐”活动，在辛辛那提与财富500强公司——美国金融集团副总裁

我曾经认为我的想法对我的同学没啥帮助。然而，当我在大二时在课上发言后，我发现国际学生的观点是非常独特的。国际学生在不同的文化背景下成长，能看到可能美国人从未见过的不同的事物。

除了上述原因，参与课堂讨论也帮我发展了批判性思维技能。通过和老师、同学分享我的想法和观点，我将理论联系实践。我觉得人们说的话易被遗忘，除非我们能与他人分享、讨论我们的想法。

总而言之，我完全理解有时候在说另一种语言的母语者面前说这门语言会感到尴尬。你可以这样思考，如果美国人想要说中文或越南语，他们可能也会遇到相同的问题——起初会非常害羞，少言寡语。如果我们想要在语言学习上有所进步，沉默寡言绝不会有所帮助。这也是我们选择要敢于发言、分享想法的原因。

欲知更多关于美国人眼中的国际学生，请点击视频观看：https://youtu.be/AOiUKUud4Ew?list=PLRWDj_9qKzdLqaBftvrKmUswvS94W4mRs

如果您想了解更多辛辛那提大学最新动态，请查看 2015-16年辛辛那提大学国际学生中文手册。

文章系辛辛那提大学中文官方网站原创文章，如需转载请注明来源与链接。

原文阅读

Hello, My name is Ha Dinh. I’m a Vietnamese International Ambassador at University of Cincinnati. I’m also a junior in Marketing and Business Economics in the Lindner college of business.

I didn’t speak much in classes when I was in a freshman. I was afraid of my English accent, and thought people wouldn’t listen to me anyway. Later I wanted to find a part time job on campus. In the States, you need to have recommendations from professors/ faculties including campus jobs. I knew some professors, but obviously they had no idea of what to say about me. I finally realized how important it is to speak up and be active in classes, so that professors would remember me and know me more.

Coming to sophomore year, I pushed myself to speak more in classes and confidently introduce myself to people at networking events. Thus, I not only became more fluent in English (my American friends were actually amazed that I only stayed in the US for less than a year), but also got recognized and complimented from professors.

In most of my sophomore classes, my professors remembered my name. In Business Professionalism class, my professor also let me help her instruct a whole class in a lecture about using LinkedIn. She shared with me that she always wanted to hear different perspectives from international students. However, international students, especially Asian students were so quiet even when she tried different ways to engage them more. Thus, she appreciated to have students like me who like to speak their mind in class.

I used to think that my ideas were useless for my classes. However, as I spoke up my mind during sophomore year, I realized that international students’ ideas were very unique. International grow up in different cultures, see different things that the Americans may have never seen before.

Beyond the above reasons, engaging in class discussions also helps me to develop my critical thinking skills. By sharing my ideas and perspective with my classmates and teachers, I put mental knowledge into practice. In my opinion, the things people say will be easily forgotten unless we actually share our thoughts and contribute to the discussion too.

To summarize, I totally understand that speaking another language in front of native speakers is embarrassing sometimes. You can think this way, if American tries to speak Chinese or Vietnamese, they probably will have same obstacles – very shy, and speechless in the beginning. I think we never become better by keeping quite if we want to make progress in studying and using another language. That’s why we choose to speak up and share our unique ideas.

To know more what American thinks about international students, please check this video: https://youtu.be/AOiUKUud4Ew?list=PLRWDj_9qKzdLqaBftvrKmUswvS94W4mRs