My Profile_Part 1 Hello there! Greetings from Taiwan! I am looking for native English speakers who are serious Chinese Mandarin learners to have an exchange with. We can do it through Skype or other applications such as “Line”. Probably each of us can have 30 to 60 minutes of lesson for our respective language accordingly once a week regularly. Here is my idea about what I am going to do. Before our exchange, I will listen, watch or read 3 to 5 podcasts, TV shows, movies, or articles in English every week and do the followings during our language exchange. 1. make small talks to break the ice/warm up. 2. tell you what the materials I have done are about. 3. tell you what vocabulary or cultural things I have learned from them. 4. explain the vocabulary or share my thoughts about the cultural things with you. 5. Meanwhile, you can correct my English, ask questions, or share your thoughts.

Jokes on Chinese/English Learning A Western guy tried to impress his Taiwanese friend with his Chinese skill. He wanted to say to her "I miss you to death (我想死你了 "Wo xiang si ni le"!)". But instead, he said "I hope you die (我想你死 "Wo xiang ni si" )" because they sound quite similar in Chinese and hilariously he literally translated it in English into Chinese. lolllll Some English beginners in Taiwan mistake "I laughed so hard" for "很難笑 hen nan xiao", which literally means "it’s hard to laugh", i.e. it’s not funny at all. However it’s totally opposite. Ha! Ha!

Getting Started I became a member of italki since October, 2013. That was about 8 months ago. However, I didn’t put anything in my profile or do anything on the website until recently. I guess I was lazy at the time. Starting from now, I want to focus on bettering my English particularly in speaking because I don’t get much chance to speak it. I can help you with your Mandarin in return. Hopefully we can learn from each other linguistically and culturally. And also we can be friends.