HLS in Uzbekistan

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0:05 i'm participating in the study abroad
0:08 program to learn Uzbek language and
0:10 culture in Uzbekistan i was able to get
0:12 this opportunity by taking the class
0:14 Central Asia and soviet times i've
0:16 highly enjoyed my time in Uzbekistan a
0:19 lot of things that i learned in class i
0:21 was able to see here the Uzbek classes
0:23 have also been fantastic
0:25 i've not taken any use back before this
0:28 trip and my first class was in the Sama
0:31 Khan Institute of Foreign Languages and
0:34 overall it has been a fantastic
0:36 experience and i highly enjoyed it and i
0:39 would highly encourage anybody
0:40 interested in the program to try it out
0:43 as well while here in Uzbekistan
0:46 we had the unique opportunity to learn
0:49 at least for myself elementary Uzbek
0:52 which was the language up until this
0:54 trip that i wouldn't have given much
0:56 mind to learning however the just unique
0:59 opportunity to learn Uzbek from a native
1:01 Uzbek speaker
1:03 was rather inspiring learning culture
1:06 from uzbeks who are passionate about
1:08 their country
1:10 compassionate about their culture and
1:12 society is also just a very unique and a
1:16 one-off kind of situation in the class
1:19 we learned about different topics like
1:21 literature and dialects of Uzbek as
1:23 well as getting to meet the students and
1:24 how they have their student life in Samarkand
1:28 it's definitely helped me to think
1:29 differently about
1:31 the country and the region and the relationships
1:35 between and among the people who live
1:38 not just in Uzbekistan but in
1:40 neighboring countries
1:41 and how the
1:43 people flow from one place to another
1:46 how they interact with uh colleagues and
1:49 friends and family seeing the culture
1:51 and things that i wouldn't have thought
1:53 of before so like even like how you pour
1:56 tea and like how you break the bread and
1:59 who gets
2:00 to you first and who gets the middle
2:01 part of the bread when i also had fun
2:03 talking to the students and seeing what
2:05 we had in common because they had seen
2:06 some movies and
2:08 listened to American music and i
2:10 wouldn't have expected that so we had a
2:11 lot in common there it's really fun
2:13 highly recommend