At what occasion you do think your language teacher helped you with your study?

前两天，和学生上课时，讨论起来如果城市是一个人，那么你对这个人的印象是什么样的。聊得非常开心，希望大家和我们一起讨论。 The other day, when I had class with my foreigner student, we talked about if we looked at a city as a person, then what would be the image of that city in your mind. We had a very interesting conversation. And I sincerely want to invite you to join our discussion. 她说广州像一个小商贩，每天起早贪黑忙忙碌碌。但是他的生意总是做不了很大，一直是马马虎虎的样子。 She said Guangzhou is like a small trader. Working from dawnto dusk, hustling and bustling. But his business is always a small business, hard to expand. 而一海之隔的香港却是个非常成功的生意人，西装革履，派头十足。值得广州好好学习。 Otherwise, Hong Kong which in the Ocean apart is a very successful business man. Wear fancy suits, and very flamboyant. It’s a very good example for Guangzhou. 她还去过很多次北京，对北京的印象是一个老爷爷。北京的红墙绿瓦、古代建筑、深厚的文化底蕴、中国的政治中心的确是给人这样的感觉呢。 She also has gone to Beijing for many times. She told me that Beijing is like an old man. Beijing’s red walls and green tiles, ancient constructions, deep cultural heritage and the political status make this city solemn and serene. 之后，我也想了想跟自己牵绊比较深的城市。 After that, I also thought about the city which is related with me. 先是我生活了9年的城市广州。他像一个有想法却马力不足的中年男人。对各种现象、各种人都极尽包容，想变得更好，但身后的包袱太大，所以只得慢慢走。 First is the city I’ve lived for 9 years- Guangzhou. I think it's like a middle-aged man with good thought though the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. He contains all kinds of phenomena and people, he always wants to be better, but the burden on him is too big , so he has to slow down. 那么今天的一句话汉语就是“我在广州生活了9年了”。可能会有人问，为什么有2个“了”？因为最后的那个“了”表示，我还在广州。如果我已经不在广州了，就只需要说：“我在广州生活了9年。”o So today’s Chinese is ‘我在广州生活了9年了(wǒ zài Guǎngzhōu shēng huó le wǔ nián le) – I ‘ve lived in Guangzhou for 9 years. ’ Maybe you’ll ask why there’re 2 ‘le’ in this sentence. That’s because the last ‘le’ indicates I’m still in Guangzhou. If I’m not in Guangzhou, then I just need to say ’wǒ zài Guǎngzhōu shēng huó le jiu nián’. 我是晶晶，一名汉语老师。 I’m Crystal, a Chinese teacher.

If you buy train ticket on the Internet in China 1. If you live in Guangzhou or Shenzhen you must like to go to Hong Kong or Macau a lot. I had a student who went to Hong Kong every Saturday when he was in China. I called him Mr. Hong Kong. At first, his route was Saturday morning buy the Kowloon Canton Railway ticket in the Guangzhou East Railway Station. Taking the first train at 8:19, and around 10:00 arrive to Hung hum. At night, take 20:00 ‘s train go back to Guangzhou. Later, he found another route also starts from Guangzhou East Railway Station. If you take the CRH (China Railway High-speed) from Guangzhou to Shenzhen Railway Station, you can cross the border through Luohu , then take Hong Kong metro to Hung Hum would be much earlier. He told me, the first ride starts off at 6:24, around 7:30 would arrived to Shenzhen, then cross the border. Because it’s in the morning and only a few foreigners, so you can pass the border check in 15 mins. Then take the Hong Kong metro, about 40 mins later you will arrive Hung hum, at 8:30 you already can enjoy your breakfast in the central of Hong Kong. And even go back to Guangzhou, you don’t have to be in a hurry, because Shenzhen Railway Station has the train back to Guangzhou until 22:00. After listening all these, I have to say, when you like a place, your potential can be limitless. 2 weeks ago, my foreigner friend and me went to Macau. That was my first time to go to Macau. As you know, we need to get into Macau via Zhuhai. Normally, I prefer to buy train ticket on the Internet, the China Official Railway Customer Service Central 12306 Website or APP which is very convenient. This time, I took it for granted and bought mine and my friend’s train ticket on the Internet too. But, because of it, we missed the train. It was my fault, I have to say. I forgot that foreigner has to get the paper ticket at the counter first so that they can enter the Station. We took the train in the Guangzhou South Railway Station, the ticket counter is on the 1 floor, but the Entrance is on the 3rd floor. If you’re already on the 3rd floor but forgot to change the ticket, that means you have to go downstairs by the only 2 elevators where full of people waiting for there.

'Amazing' in Chinese I'm recording my own program in English, but today the guy usually helped me did't reply me, so please help me. First, please forgive me for haven’t updated on last Friday, Because I had a very important appointment that made me couldn’t update. I’m so so so sorry.\\\ You know that’s bullshit, I was just too lazy to update. And I felt so frustrated that I spent almost 6 hours to update one program each day and there was just around 100 people to listen it. OK, calm down, Rome wasn’t built in one day. I’ll keep trying. And I know if you like my program, you’ll share it in your WeChat moments. Thank you! The other day, my student asked me how to say AMAZING in Chinese. He told me one of his foreigner college came to China for the first time, he is very curious about everything. So AMAZING became to his pet phrase. Then people tried to teach him how to say AMAZING in Chinese. My student said it could be ‘太棒了（tài bàng le）’. The other foreigner thought ‘厉害（lì hai）’should be the one. Then a Chinese whispered with a sly grin ’Niú bī’. People all laughed. As you know, ‘Niú bī’is not a polite language in the formal occasion. You can say it with your friends in casual way, that maybe will make you very cool. but if you say that whatever makes you feel amazing, let me picture that, mm… Nope! Especially for girls. But tell the truth, I’ll say occasionally, if I’m super high with my friends who know what I really looked like, you know, as an idiotic youth, but not a lady. And I also asked other Chinese about how to translate Amazing. I got several other wordings, too. Among them, I think you can also use ‘赞（zàn）’! Actually it’s a internet symbol. You can find it in Facebook Chinese version and QQ zone. It always expressed like ‘thumb up’ or ‘heart’. Also include the meaning of amazing. So, Let’s read again. Amazing can be ‘厉害（lì hai）’, can be ‘牛逼（Niú bī）’in casual way, and also can be ‘赞（zàn）’！ At last, if you want to learn some Chinese that Crystal would like to but not allowed to teach you in this platform, maybe you can try to buy this book. See the cover? I think I can save my words here. Good luck! If you think this program is good for learning Chinese, please share it in your WeChat moments. Click the red button at the end of article to reward me if you like my program! And move your finger to subscribe to ‘Crystal_hanyu, c-r-y-s-t-a-l-underline-h-a-n-y-u’.