Multilingual Covid-19 Conversation Data Analysis is a research project that aims to understand how people from different language and cultural backgrounds discuss the current Covid-19 situation in their native language. Led by Professor Shoichi Iwasaki from the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, this study is being funded partially by the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA.

We are looking for native speakers of English in the 20-35 age range who are willing to talk about their COVID-19 experiences for linguistic research. Participants will be paired with an unacquainted speaker of their age for a 20-minute ZOOM meeting to talk about any aspect of their COVID-19 pandemic experiences. The ZOOM meeting will be recorded and transcribed. The aim of this study is purely for linguistic research, and your identity will be protected. Transcriptions of the conversation or still images, however, may be reproduced in research publications, and clips of your interactions may be played at academic conferences.

You must be able to talk on Zoom, with video enabled, using a laptop or desktop (not a phone) on the day you are available.

If you are willing to help, please fill out this form in English. Our research assistants will contact you if you are selected to participate in the study.

After the recording, each selected participant will be gifted with an Amazon Gift Card valued at $15 USD as a token of appreciation.

Please note that this form will be closed once we reach the required number of participants.

To learn more about this project, contact the research assistants or the principal investigator!

Research Assistants: covid.langproject+eng@gmail.com 

Shoichi Iwasaki：iwasaki@humnet.ucla.edu