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Oh, should I look at the camera?

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Okay.

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Ready?

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I hope that I can do it.

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It's this camera or this camera?

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Okay. That is what I thought.

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Alright.

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Five.

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[Speaking in Italian]

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[Speaking in Hupa]

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[Speaking in Farsi]

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[American Sign Language]

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Hi, congratulations.

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[Speaking in Spanish]

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What a great school to be in.

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[Speaking in Italian]

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[Speaking in Swahili]

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Congratulations on coming to

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one of the world’s premier universities.

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[Speaking in Farsi]

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[Speaking in Korean]

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There’s just no place like it on earth.

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The On the Same Page Program

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is a signature event for the

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College of Letters and Science

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for all of our incoming students,

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freshmen and transfers.

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The idea is to give this

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large group of incoming freshmen

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a common academic experience,

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something to talk about,

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something a bit intellectual.

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It’s one of the first occasions,

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we hope, among many that

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you’ll get to meet senior professors

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in your first year at Cal.

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This year it’s going to be about language.

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We have here at Berkeley,

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as you all discover very quickly,

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students from more than 100 countries.

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What can matter more than language?

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So, hi, my name’s Virginia Chung.

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And I speak Chipinglish.

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And I call that because I speak Chinese,

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Japanese and English.

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So I call it Chipinglish.

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[Speaking in Turkish]

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[Speaking in Rumanian]

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[Speaking in Spanish]

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You realize I’m British, right?

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So, I was born in China.

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I came to the United States

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when I was 17 years old.

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My mother came to Cal

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in the 1940s.

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And her first language was Spanish.

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And she came here to be an English major.

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My dream job would be

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to interpret for the U.N.

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I barely spoke any English

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when I first came here.

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So we’re always re-inventing

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ourselves through language.

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I’m in the business program.

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I just got in.

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I was nervous.

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I didn’t know what I was talking about.

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Don was awed by the hat rack.

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Don was awed by the hat rack.

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This year the experiment for the

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On the Same Page Program is called

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Start by Talking Back.

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We’ve got these sentences that

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will pop up on the screen.

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You have a little audio recorder

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that pops up in the web browser.

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You click on record and say something like

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This wheel’s red spokes show why mud is no boon.

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This is like the King’s Speech.

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We map it in Google Maps.

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So that everybody can listen to each other.

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You have a dot on the map

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that stands for you

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and a dot that stands for everybody else

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in the incoming class

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who’s participated in the program.

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And you can listen to each other,

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sort of see what you sound like.

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You know, we always say Berkeley,

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it’s one of the most diverse universities

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in the world.

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And I ask myself, is it more diverse

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than a street corner in San Francisco?

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Is it more diverse

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than a street corner in Shanghai?

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You know, the really great thing

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about coming to Berkeley is

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you can design an experiment to actually

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get an answer to that question.

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How diverse is Berkeley?

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You won’t know until you come here.

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That was, that was hard.

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That was hard.

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If you check the On the Same Page website

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you will see a feast of events,

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including faculty panels.

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A discussion group led by a faculty member.

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A contest.

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And a keynote event with Geoff Nunberg.

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Well, the event is going to be a

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conversation about bilingualism among people

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who are artists and scientists

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and who work with bilingualism.

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It’s an extraordinary topic.

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We have a website or you can follow

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us on Twitter or on Facebook.

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We’re really looking forward to seeing

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you here on campus and hearing your voices here.

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Now it’s your turn to be the Bear.

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Don’t I get to hold the Bear?

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Go Bears!

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[Speaking in Bengali]

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[Speaking in Japanese]

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Oski

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Go Bears.

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[Speaking in Italian]

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[Speaking in Mandarin]

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Enjoy it while you can

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because it goes by really quickly.

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That was fun.