What do you do when a pandemic shuts down international travel, and you can’t do your internship in Japan? For MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) students this summer, the answer was the Virtual Language Conversation Exchange with the Tokyo Institute of Technology (also known as Tokyo Tech). MIT Japan’s managing director, Christine Pilcavage, and MIT’s global language senior instructor, Takako Aikawa, collaborated with Professor Eri Ota and Naoko Goto of Center of International Education at Tokyo Tech to create a six-week exchange-style Japanese Language Conversation course. The goal…
