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thanks for your nice words, larry, i think i will learn more from you all here and you all are great pleasure to meet too!

larry, as i've said, i don't mind your preaching at all. let me explain some different ways of expressions in language based on the differences between east and west cultures. 1. in chinese culture, "heart" is the source of both feelings and intelligence, we have bunches of idioms to prove this, we ...

hi everyone, i guess i am still learning the differences in the concepts of "private individual distance" between west and east, so if i seem to push you into an unpleasant situation,as in a public forum, to express things you may be not comfortable to in your culture, do forgive me. yes, i agree th...

haha......now I see what you mean.....so that's the coincidence between pinyin and English word.

"at interval a couple of us almost barged into the "women's" toilet, having been brainwashed to think that women meant 'us'. No kidding! "

i didn't quite get your point. Did any woman tell you that was "the toilet of 'us'" instead of "women's toilet" so that you got confused?

"An Italian can express his love in extremely moving words, and start swearing terribly within seconds! "

......and then maybe forget everything for the next second!

yes, it's important to keep optimistic and meanwhile not idealistic. Rarely a teacher is popular with every student.

Dear Roger, It's nice to read your post about China here again, I might be sad about those things you pointed out about China but I agree on your criticisim and I believe you criticised because you wanted to help your Chinese students. In fact, most of your criticisim is very much like what I have w...

Dear Roger and Larry, Your replies gave me a thrill and :oops: . No, more than that. "A language becomes a character-defining element in a speaker. " It is so true to me! so, now, this is who I am. A totally different person from the one over ten years ago when I first met the foreign teacher and ut...

Hi, I've noticed the posts about "free talk" and here are my opinions: I am Chinese and a teacher of English in China, so I guess I have double identifications here: a teacher who has to hold "free talk" in class and a former Chinese student who used to join "free talk" held by our American teachers...

hi, thanks a lot, your idea sounds interesting and I think I'll try it some day.

Adult students might want to see more "practical results" and "efficiency" of learning other than just enjoying the process of learning aimlessly as kids do, so high level of practicality of your teaching might be a challenge for you. First of all, get clear about the purposes of their learning Engl...

Hi everyone, I am an English teacher in China, today is my first class of the new semester and I found I was faced with the old problem: to make my students talk. As you might know, most of the Chinese students are good at listening other than speaking or sharing their own ideas in the classes of al...