DEALL's 44th Language Festival will be held on Friday, April 24, from 3:00 to 6:30 PM at Hagerty Hall 180. With over forty years of history, DEALL's Annual Language Festival is a celebration where students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean showcase their language skills through skits, songs, speeches, and dances.
Students will also demonstrate their language ability in the Big DEALL Interpretation Shootout, where interpreters from each language compete in mediating conversations between two monolingual speakers of different East Asian languages. At the end of the event, the winners of the Shootout and the annual student awards will be honored.
Program Schedule
3:00–3:05 — Opening Remarks by Danielle Pyun, DEALL Language Director
3:05–3:30 Performing Session I
- 3:05–3:10 Korean 1102.01: Video Skit Presentation
- 3:10–3:15 Japanese 2102.01: Song Performance
- 3:15–3:20 Chinese 4142.01: Chinese Nail Art Showcase
- 3:20–3:30 DEALL Alumni Voices
3:30–4:50 Performing Session II: Big DEALL Interpretation Shootout
Shootout Conversants:
- Chinese: Prof. Zhiguo Xie
- Japanese: Prof. JJ Nakayama
- Korean: Prof. Sin-hye Nam
Shootout Schedule:
- 3:30–3:35 Interpretation Shootout Demo (DEALL faculty)
- 3:35–4:00 Japanese Levels 1, 2, 3 vs. Chinese Levels 1 and 3
- 4:00–4:25 Chinese Levels 1 and 3 vs. Korean Levels 1, 2, 3
- 4:25–4:50 Korean Levels 1, 2, 3 vs. Japanese Levels 1, 2, 3
Shootout Judges:
- Chinese/Korean: Ryo Sawayama
- Chinese/Japanese: Lulu Yuan
- Korean/Japanese: Ryo Sawayama
(Judges confer and decide)
4:50–5:20 Performing Session III
- 4:50–4:58 Japanese 5102.01: Speech
- 4:58–5:03 Korean 5102: Video Skit Presentation
- 5:03-5:10 Japanese 4102.01: Video Skit Presentation
- 5:10–5:15 Chinese 4142.01: Song Performance
- 5:15–5:20 Japanese 5104.51: Speech
5:20–5:30 2026 Big DEALL Interpretation Shootout Results
5:30–5:40 Annual DEALL Student Awards and Closing Remarks by DEALL Chair, Prof. Patricia Sieber
5:40 ~ Pizza & Pop Reception