0:00  
This. Okay, hello. Thank you for coming today. Thanks for engaging in our conversation. So let's start with having you to introduce each other. I mean, introduce yourself to each other.

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Hi. My name is Emily dung. I'm a student at Stanford, and my major is computer science. Hi. Nice to meet you. My name is Alex Liu, and I am also master student at Stanford. My major is electrical engineering. Nice to meet you. How's your culture going? Oh, it's nice, but it's very tired. I take several classes, and I think it's overwhelming. Yes, me, too. I just finished the midterm last week. I'm just really, really stressed out, and I have too many things to do. I have to looking for internships? Are you also looking for job opportunities? Yeah, actually, today, I have my first interview for the summer internship, 2026, next summer. Yeah, I'm stressful, too. Have you take any interview. No, nervous, yeah. How's it going? It's okay. I think they asked me some questions about my past experience, about my internship, and also my research assistant experience? Yeah, we talked a lot, but I don't know the results. I'm still nervous about that. Yeah, me too. I'm still struggling with my coding skills. Yeah, I cannot do all the detail, right? It's really hard, I think it's really, really hard for international students to find a good job here, because we don't, we're not the citizen here. Yeah, and I think language is another big problem. Sometimes I want to express myself, but I can't express myself correctly. And yeah, yeah, I agree I cannot understand all the questions the recruiters ask me, yeah, yeah. And this may, may make me lose some important opportunities to get a good job.

2:53  
Okay, so thanks for the introduction, guys, I suppose natural follow up questions or directions we could take this conversation. So is this your guys's What? What? What year are you guys? And actually, yeah, what year are you guys? Right now,

3:20  
I'm a second year master I'm looking for full time job now. I'm a first year student master students, and I'm looking for internship opportunities next summer.

3:34  
Yeah, so Emily, you're a second year master student. Do you have any tips for Alex in the job recruiting process?

3:50  
Actually, for me, I didn't find the internship last year, so I'm really stressed out now, because losing these opportunities. So maybe the most important advice that try your best to find an internship now, and maybe you can get return offers through the internship. And also, one more thing, try your best to make some English speaking friends, to practice your oral English skills. This can be really helpful job, I think. But for Job, Job for looking for the job I don't have. I don't think I have more experience than you

4:54  
and Alex, since this is your first year and it's fall. Quarter right now. How have you found settling in to Stanford this quarter? How's your experience been?

5:11  
I think it's very exciting, and I make a lot of friends here, interesting.

5:22  
And this, this is my comfort zone, yeah. And also, I think I have to get used to the English environment, and it is very difficult, but now I think I can gradually overcome this problem. Yeah. I think so. I do think such kind of English practice and conversations can be really useful for us. Maybe we can. I think we can learn more professional words related to our majors, because sometimes I need to translate some professional words into Chinese so that I can understand what what the words are. But actually I know those concepts, but just because of my poor image, yeah, I may not understand during academic

6:31  
discussion that is helpful for the interview process, like, can We use the website to do some interview mock.

6:42  
Oh, of course, I think, I think asking some some friends with experience, to conduct a MOOC interview is really useful, because I think this can truly help helps us know what we don't know before, what what we don't think the recruiters will

7:08  
ask us before, yeah,

7:12  
I will try to do that in the future.

7:16  
I think we can help each other, yeah,

7:19  
so our major Silin du.

7:24  
So Emily explained a lot about her challenges so far and what she believes would be useful in job searching. And you've also expressed that you want to improve your English. Are there any aspects of English learning that you think would be most useful, that you need most help with.

7:47  
I think it is important to practice our English. Sometimes I want

7:55  
to describe myself, and I think it's very terrible. Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think my vocabulary is is enough for for daily topics, but sometimes I cannot understand they are seeing the words I know. So my listening is kind of poor, yeah, I think America. Always linked the world together under

8:36  
this thing so fast, I do think the best way to improve is to make some friends.

8:47  
Have there been any other than linking up with friends or acquaintances or classmates? Have you used any other methods to learn or practice English? Is English,

9:07  
but, but chat GPT respond. Respond really slowly, but, but he can actually give me really useful advice in my writing, English and maybe improving my vocabulary, yeah, I think another way is to watch some videos on YouTube, yeah, I think it's interesting, yeah, and it can also improve my listening skills. I also take two English classes this quarter, like the listening and the

9:48  
writing. Oh, really, I don't think my English class helps a lot.

9:55  
I also take an English class, but it's. Kind of boring for me, and the teacher is teaching us some writing skills, but I just cannot remember anything. I'll just use chatting. I think the listening class is very good. The teacher always optimize games for us every week, so I think it's interesting, and in that I can learn some listening skills

10:31  
which is very useful.

10:37  
Is there any way that I could help you in your English learning journey.

10:47  
I think the most important thing is to practice more. Maybe you can give us some advice, how to how to use a sentence as a native speaker.

11:06  
Cool, I think that's sufficient, unless you guys would like to continue the conversation. Is there anything interesting?

11:22  
All right, thank you. Thank you. I pause the recording in case we want to.

11:35  
It smells the sensitive.

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