First Time Language Exchange

Beijing Botanical Garden
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Yesterday in Yannan (燕南) coffee shop, Neptune and I had our first time language exchange. Neptune revised my three compositions and advised me to apply more personal and specific examples to my writing. I think he is right. However, he seams not good at instructing writing details, such as proper use of vocabulary and grammar. Olive appears to be more experienced than Neptune. I made a phone call to Olive and we three had a lunch of dumplings together in NongYuan(農園).

Olive was so thoughtful and generous that he suggested us to use his room in Shaoyuan (勺園) for exchange. In the afternoon, I began to teach Neptune how to pronounce those Chinese sentences in his textbook, a material from Global Village. Neptune complained that in Global Village, most students are Koreans and thus they generally use the Korean language to communicate. Besides, He found that many students spoke much worse Chinese than he, an environment that, in his opinion, is a disadvantage of learning Chinese.