My first Session on italki!

My first Session on italki!
I have been a member of italki since 2011.Initially,I just want to improve my poor spoken English on italki.At the beginning I found several partners here and I also successfully applied to become a Community Tutor.But I became indolent and  visited  the website  only after receiving

[I before "e"   except after "c"--BB]

  the email that with the title;  "Are you still learning a language?"  or 

"Are you still interested in being a teacher?" from italki.  But to my surprise, I recieved a session requset from a Japanese the day before yesterday. Frankly speaking, I feel a little excited because he maybe my first student here and a little worried for I have no experience in teaching a foreigner from pinyin as he said he is a new mandarin student. 

 Actually we had a voice chat yesterday evening but we didn't talk long for the unstable wireless. Although I still can't promise that I can teach very well,I hope we can study and improve together!
Fighting!!! 

    Good for you Keimy.   It might  help, for your first lesson, that you type a brief text and put it on Skype, and ask the  student to repeat each phrase or line,  after you read it.  That way, neither the student nor you  has to bother  with thinking about Something---to---Say.  I usually use songs, because the student can find the song online, somewhere, and listen to it during the week until  our next appointment.  It works very well for pronuciation practice.