{"id":3084,"date":"2025-09-19T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=3084"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:50:46","slug":"grace","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/people\/grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Hi everyone, my name is Grace Sheng and although I was born in Taiwan, I have lived in Canada virtually all my life since 8 years old. My mother tongue is Mandarin Chinese but I do not have many opportunities to speak it as I have no family or Chinese friends in Ottawa. However, I travel to China every few years to refresh my Mandarin and reading and writing skills. I recently returned&nbsp;from&nbsp;a 2 month stay in Shanghai where I studied Mandarin while I was there. I am now volunteering as a helper in the CHIN 2010 course and also as a conversation group organizer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a retired social worker and as an alumni of Carleton University, I enjoy helping others. I am now interested in helping students improve their Chinese language skills. My oral and listening skills are fairly good but I am also working on improving my reading and writing skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come for a casual conversation and practice your Mandarin on Tuesday afternoons at 2-3 p.m. in room 337 at St. Patrick&#8217;s. Hope to chat with you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":3085,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Grace","cu_people_last_name":"","cu_people_initials":"G","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[93,60],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-3084","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-conversation-group-organizer","cu_people_type-mandarin-chinese-conversation"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Mandarin Chinese Conversation Group Organizer","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3084\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/llrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}