Sharing a "funny" thing
Today, a Chinese guy called andrewxiang on italki asked me to add him on WeChat to study English together. Later, I received a message
"每天提醒我，要我读30页，然后我拍照发给你，你帮我总结到word文档里然后发给我，我可以回答你英语问题，告诉你学习方法 ". (It means: Remind me everyday to read 30 pages, then I take photos to send you, you summarize them in a WORD file and send me after, I can answer your questions of learning English, tell you the learning methods.)
I replied "Sorry, I'm not your PA" and deleted him.
That is very ridiculous. I begin to wonder what makes him behave so arrogant and impolite, because he is working in Sydney and obtained a master of advanced conference interpreting?
What do you think if it happens to you? Plz share your opinion.
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You are exactly right! His response was arrogant and stupid. Fortunately, he does not represent most 老外 who are trying to learn. 别往心里去。 Just move on to someone else.
Sharing a "funny" thing
Today, a Chinese guy called andrewxiang on italki asked me to add him on WeChat to study English together. Later, I received a message"每天提醒我，要我读30页，然后我拍照发给你，你帮我总结到word文档里然后发给我，我可以回答你英语问题，告诉你学习方法 ". (It means: Remind me everyday to read 30 pages, then I take photos to send you, you summarize them in a WORD file and send me after, I can answer your questions of learning English, tell you the learning methods.)
I replied "Sorry, I'm not your PA" and deleted him.
That is very ridiculous. I begin to wonder what makes him behave so arrogantly and impolite~! Does he really think that because he is working in Sydney and obtained a master of advanced conference interpreting that this gives hom the right to act like that?
What do you think if it happens to you? Plz share your opinion.
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1. You did the right thing. While I, personally, would have added a few (well, more than a few!) choice cuss words, that's just me.
2. Judging from his methodology, it sounds like he may of been a student of Mr. Wu, the "Assembly-Line English" teacher described in L. Chang's book, "Factory Girls."
Regardless, just be glad that you ended your association with him as quickly as you did! Thanks for sharing! J.
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你好lulu, I will share my opinion only because you asked: I agree with you, this is ridiculous! Pfffff... 30 pages is not nearly enough, 100 would have been much better to learn faster, and he should have DEMANDED a daily progress Chart in Excel to log his performance... haha, just kidding of course... Your response was excellent! Short and to the point, I'm not sure if my response would have been as efficient as yours. Please write 10 stories per day, take photos, summarize them in Word.... ;-)
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