
However, if it was not for my writing skills that I started accumulating since when I prepared US college admissions, I would not have achieved as much during my postgraduate studies. Of course, there are many aspects that helped me during this time: coding techniques built since I was a teenager, engineering experience from undergraduate, social skills learned during internships and military service, etc. If someone asks me, “what was the most important skill that helped you to complete your study in graduate school?”, I would not hesitate to say, “ language.” Two years from now, I felt the shortcoming of my own knowledge and decided to dig deeper into the area of machine learning/artificial intelligence by doing postgraduate research. However, after more than ten years I graduated, at the moment that I am wrapping up my two years of MPhil research, I am pondering what it actually is saying. At that time, I simply thought it was a slogan to make us abide by the school’s rule that requires us to speak English and did not put much meaning to it. I shouted this sentence every week during my high school. “Language is not an objective, but a means of studying.” Thoughts on language education in the era of artificial intelligence
