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Let Me Introduce M yself I came to the Italki three months ago ,but after I became a registered member I havenot got in it until yesterday.So now I am still a newcomer.Maybe I should introduce myself first in order to let friends here to know more about me. I am a Chinese girl ,named Zhang Zhen.My English name is Jessy.Now I am 23yeas old,but I am still a student ,a graduate student.I don't like to be a student and I always hope that I can work as soon as possible .The reason that I want to get a job early is mainly to reduce the burden of my family.I am happy to say that I will graduate next year and so i can work then.But it will bring another boring problem:searching for a job.Now it is difficult to find a fit job. If you want to know my character ,I suppose I have to say that I am introvert to a large extent.I hope to have many friends in my heart,and if others exress their good faith to me ,I'd love to be their friends.But to strangers ,maybe I dont have the courage or confidence to chitchat with them initiatively.I dont understand why I am so prudent.In my heart I am afraid that maybe this person dont like me or maybe she doesnot like others to strike up a conversation with her.I think I am easygoing and I get on well with my friends ,just as my friends said.In the first phase when I meet with people,I always have so much misgivings that I dont know how to get rid of it. Something about my hobbies?Oh,I like literature.These days I am reading the novels of Jane Austin.I love her.I like culture,too.the reason that I come to the Italki is that I want to know more about difficult culture.And we can share with each other. Maybe some friends are interseted in my major.My major is Teaching Chinese As A Second Language.I have got some language knowlege from my undergraduate and graduate course.So maybe I can help some friends who feel difficult in learning Chinese.I will be very glad if I can help others. As for my language learning ,the stringent thing is improve the oral English.I got good scores in my English exams,but I dont have the courage to speak to the foreigners when I meet them.Every time I lost the opportunity.I decide to be brave.Dont be so shy,just have a try,and one day I will speak English fluently!

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Let Me Introduce M yself

I came to the Italki three months ago ,but after I became a registered member I have not got in it used it until yesterday.So now I am still a newcomer.Maybe I should introduce myself first in order to let friends here to know more about me.
I am a Chinese girl ,named Zhang Zhen.My English name is Jessy.Now I am 23yeas old,but I am still a student ,a graduate student.I don't like to being a student and I have always wanted to hope that I can work as soon as possible .The reason that I want to get a job early is mainly to reduce the burden of my family.I am happy to say that I will graduate next year and so i can work then.But it will bring another boring problem
:searching for a job.Now it is difficult to find a fit job.
If you want to know my character ,I suppose I have to say that I am introverted to a large extent.I hope to have many friends in my heart?,and if others exress their good faith to me ,I'd love to be their friends.But to strangers ,maybe I dont have the courage or confidence to show initiative in casual conversation chitchat with them initiatively.I dont understand why I am so prudent reticent. In my heart I am afraid that maybe this person dont doesn’t like me or maybe she doesnot like others to strike up a conversation with her.I think I am easygoing and I get on well with my friends ,just as my friends said (which my friends confirm?).In the first phase when I meet with people,I always have so much many misgivings that I dont know how to get rid of overcome it.
Something about my hobbies?Oh,I like literature.These days I am reading the novels of Jane Austin.I love her.I like culture,too.the reason that I have come to the Italki is that I want to know more about difficult (high culture, cultural difficulties, or aspects of culture that are difficult to understand?) culture.And we can share with each other.
Maybe some friends are interseted in my major.My major is Teaching Chinese As A Second Language.I have got some language knowlege from my undergraduate and graduate course.So maybe I can help some friends who feel have difficulties in learning Chinese.I will be very glad if I can help others.
As for my language learning ,the stringent thing priority is to improve the my oral English.I got good scores in my English exams,but I dont have the courage to speak to the foreigners when I meet them.Every time I lost wasted the opportunity.I have decided to be brave. If I Dont be so shy and just have a try,and one day I will speak English fluently!

 

Hi Jessy, I hope your job hunting goes well. You will soon lose any shyness when you start teaching foreigners Chinese! Just remember, teaching and doing job interviews is a form of acting and you are a great movie star!

I haven’t corrected punctuation and spelling errors, get Microsoft Word to do that. Remember to put a space after a comma or full stop (period). Next time you write, focus on using “the” correctly – it is difficult I know.

I also did post graduate study in teaching second languages and have worked in both New Zealand and China as an English teacher (my BA was in Chinese), and yes, I can see you would have been a good English language student, you are not afraid to try to express yourself fully.

It is always difficult to get East Asian students to speak, though. In a class with four Middle Eastern students and ten East Asians, I found it very difficult to get the East Asians to say anything, but I couldn’t get the Middle Easterners to be quiet. Maybe you will have a similar experience teaching foreigners. It is better when the East Asians have a higher language level than the others, that way you can get everybody to speak.

 

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Many thanks to Martin! I am so appreciative to your concern、encouragement and suggestions. I am so sorry that I didn't take notice of your comment timely, and expressed my gratitude so late. oh, youare right and in my country family name is very important. But in China, when we say our name, we put our family name ahead of our given name, which is difficult from the US and Europe.Hehe~~~It is very important. So my family name is Zhang, it is"张" actally. Thanks again! Take care of yourself, and best wishes!
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Ah! Only displayed the first part of my message and lost the rest so have to retype the end somehow! I knew I should have copied before entering the message! ...If you think like this, maybe you would be more confident to talk to people because they will probably be interested and glad to have someone nice like you talking to them. You are reading Jane Austin books? Very good! I wonder if you read them in English. I think you do. Don't be afraid to speak English. If you find a good listener (polite, kind, friendly, helpful, etc.), they will enjoy listening to you and I think they will often understand your meaning. I really appreciate people from other countries who speak in English, whatever their level. It's nice. So don't worry. Just relax and speak... You will speak English fluently one day!!!
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Hello Jessy, I guess your first name is Zhen. I know family name is so important in your culture, but in mine, we mostly like to use first names, especially with friends or in informal situations. Even though I would say education is very important and valuable, your reason to want to work rather than study is actually a kind wish of yours. Hopefully all the study will help you though for getting the job now. Yes, job searching is tough; especially at this time, but I think you will have a better chance because of your education... and also your will to help your family! I think your family appreciate your kind wish to help, but wanted a good education for you and your future. Am I right? If you wanted to make them happy and make their life positive, you needed to study and do other things to build your life and develop your character, so I think you are making them happy. I can also be called an introvert, although I can be strong and brave sometimes too. Even can communicate well in some situations, although my skill is writing rather than speaking. Oh but only English, because my foreign language skills are so poor and I have not studied for a long time, though I am interested! I believe you will develop more confidence and communication skill throughout your life. Just believe in yourself! It sounds like you can do well if you don't doubt yourself so much. I can understand about it a bit. Many times, I have thought it would be nice to talk to someone I didn't know or didn't know well, but I didn't think to say anything and missed the chance. Afterwards, I thought I could have made a comment on something or casual conversation to make a chance to talk with them, but it's already too late and I regret it. Also, I feel it is rude to just talk to someone without a reason or good situation, but actually I think most people would be happy to have someone talk to them and usually I would be interested if someone talked to me. If you think like this, maybe you woul

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