Fantastic italki Suggested by a friend I began to try italki a few days ago. What did I want? Practicing English? Out of curiosity? Trying something new?... I don’t know. Maybe all of them. But I’ s really incredible. I did met people and talk with them, which really made me excited. Yesterday I talked with Josua on QQ, who was not the first responding to me but the first talking with me. Surprisingly we had a very nice talk, which lasted almost 2 hours. Although he only studies Chinese for 6 month, his spoken Chinese is really good, as good as the junior I taught in a seoul college (Chinese Majors), and he isn’t majoring in Chinese, minor instead. It’s really incredible. I think there must be a lot of reasons: his motivations, his language talent, his hardworking,…etc. But one thing I’d like to point out is that italki helped him a lot, since he told me he had found other language partners and practice with them. Therefore, some credits must go to fantastic italki. Do you agree with me, friends?

My friend Paul Last semester, I was assigned to work together with our foreign teacher, Paul, who is an English, but grew up and now lives in Australia. He is a very special person. He had a young Russian wife, who I called Anna, and he is very proud of his wife mainly because she is 26 years younger than he and very beautiful. I admire the romance and love between them and sometimes find it funny watching them quarrelling with each other, which I teased as lovers' arguments. I can vividly remember one day tough Paul made Anna sad, with tears in eyes, just because she unconsciously cut off his talk, which irritated Paul a bit. Paul immediately ironically criticized her being rude... But luckily, Anna, a darling girl, quickly dried up her tears and came out of her study and joined our talk again after a few words of comfort from me. Paul has very rich facial expression and can be very talktive if he likes. That explains why I like talking with him. You know, with him I myself had some new records last year, in 2013. He ever wrote 14 emails to me in one day, and before him, my personal email, I mean with friends, never more than 14 in a year. Moreover, in my mobile phone, he also made two new records for me, that is the conversation time, which exceeded30 minutes a time and 200 minutes a month. He is kind of short tempered, which resulted into some misunderstands between him and the school we worked in, according to my understanding. He prefers everyting is pre-arranged, every teaching task is specified clearly at the beginning of a semester, preferrably in a pack. Yes, indeed I agree with his opinion and I myself can try to do it, but for the others I can't assure. So when the director of the English department changed its requiement now and then, he flared up and even worsely he ironically criticized them being disorganized. For me, his reaction is reasonable, but for others, it seems a fussy. In fact, I ever reminded him that he should get used to the working mechanism here, that is, nothing is for sure until the last minute. He has got business mind and very skilled at computer. Although he knows only a little Chinese, but while working in China, he can go anywhere, since he knows how to get information on line. He even ordered some things on line including his fishing equippments. He likes negotiates with the school's management layer, such as teaching hours, airfares, payment, ...etc. Some negotiation turned out successful, but still some broke. Paul is a smart...