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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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