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(Addie) 我很喜欢! It was fun and it opened my mind. Seeing so many Chinese people made me realize that our community is so diverse and sometime we do not notice our surroundings.<br />
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Communicating was a little hard because she speaks really fast and she was using words that I don't know yet but the things I asked she understood me, and when I did not know how to pronounce she will help me and give me tips to make the sounds, and the right tone. Over the D-term I plan to watch more Chinese movies and try to challenge myself without the subtitles.<br />
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The most enjoyable part of the trip was just how welcoming everyone was, howe excited seemed. I will suggest that we need more time to ask questions since I did not finish asking her all the questions but over all the experience was great.<br />
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(何箫) I really enjoyed Xilin because it gave me experience with talking to native speakers. They were all very open and friendly. I learned how to say "sing" which is "唱歌". I enjoyed the morning exercise routine because it woke me up and relaxed me before my conversation!</div>
Chinese Program @ NCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959940905699129332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924171729794384101.post-76165685251253829192013-10-20T06:38:00.000-07:002018-08-20T14:39:21.385-07:00Ray Chinese School<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Experiencing Chinese Culture and Cuisine: Ray Chinese School and Mapo Chinese restaurant<br />
Noon: orientation-Community Cathering Room, Main Level, Kiekhofer<br />
12:30 Leve NCC: LAC parking lot<br />
12:45 Get to Ray Chinese School by school van<br />
1:00 School tour<br />
1:50 Meet with their students, teachers and parents<br />
2:30 Mapo Chinese restaurant (Pecking duck and lunch special, and lean how to order in Chinese)<br />
4:00 Get back to NCC: parking lot<br />
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Vocab:Chinese food<br />
How many<br />
What is this<br />
I want...<br />
Very tasty<br />
Thanks<br />
Bill, please<br />
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Culture: the names of Chinese dishes<br />
People/location's name +material:Zuo Zong Ji<br />
Sichuan Niu<br />
Xiang Su Ya<br />
Kao Ya</div>
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俊杰作的一年回顾秀<br />
一面听音乐一面看... <br />
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今天我们请芝加哥的女导演和她的女儿来中北大学。她的电影是关于中国的历史。它让我知道中国的很多事情,我也知道更多中国人是什么样子。<br />
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The members of the Naperville Community, students, and
faculty of North Central College gathered in Smith Hall for a showing of
Mulberry Child. The guests of Honor, the producer and her daughter, sat in the
front row, greeting people who recognized them, smiling and looking around at
the growing crowd. There were not enough seats in the hall, so many audience
members stole some chairs from outside of the room, and others began to stand
in a crowd in the back. There was bewilderment on some of the student’s faces
who came, not sure what they had just stepped into. Some students came as an
extra credit assignment from their teachers, some with little knowledge of what
would be shown that night. Members of the Chinese community made up the largest
percent of audience members, most probably more aware of what a great honor it
was to get to be in the same room as the author of the book Mulberry Child, the
same woman who produced the movie rendition of it.<br />
The evening commenced with a word from my Chinese teacher, welcoming the guests
of honor. Then, the lights went out, the screen turned on, and the movie began,
still with a large crowd standing in the back of the room. The movie portrayed
two lives affected by the Cultural Revolution in China. One was the life of the
author’s mother, showing the Chinese cultures of marriage and foot binding, how
communism became popular, and how Mao’s plans destroyed their family for many
years. The other life was the life of the author and her daughter in Chicago. The
dissonance between the mother and daughter was apparent, and maybe even only
slightly changed by the daughter’s reactions to the book her mother wrote about
her life growing up, knowing the hardships of her grandmother, who she had only
seen a few times. <br />
After the movie was done, the author of the book and her daughter addressed the
audience and answered questions.<br />
I feel it was one of the most important things I have done all year. I have
always been very confused and not very well informed on what happened with this
Mao character I had always heard about. I have always been very ignorant about
the goings-on in China; politics, culture, anything. This documentary and
meeting the author and her daughter really changed a lot of things for me. For
one, it inspired me to learn more about the Cultural Revolution, and Mao’s
dictatorship, as there was so much that went into it, and I am still very
confused on many things.<br />
I’m very excited to buy Mulberry Child, the book, and get reading!<br />
I feel very honored to have been able to meet the woman who wrote the book and
produced the movie. When they first arrived in the room, I had no idea who they
were, and I could only guess that they were the guests of honor. I really had
no idea what to expect. When I looked up the book online, the summary truly did
not do what I saw any justice, and only scratched the surface of all that the
book, and the movie, has within it. They had so much to share, and the bond
they grew, that I saw only in person, not so much in the movie, inspired me too
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I feel that, when someone watches the movie, there will be
something for everyone to get out of the movie. For girls, it is something to
be watched with your mother. For everyone and anyone else, this is a movie to be
watched at all in general. It will give you an understanding into a culture
that is growing in their relationships in America, and a history that should
not be forgotten.(He Jing)</div>
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In February, North Central College hosted a Multi-Cultural
festival to bring together all the diverse groups in the community to share in
everyone’s different cultures. There would be performances by local dance
groups that practiced traditional dances for certain cultures, food to sample
from all over the world, and even quick language classes for children. It would
be about a half hour lesson, enough time to teach the most basic of all basic
words from that language.</div>
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I was given an opportunity to teach the Chinese class! I
worked side by side with my own Chinese teacher to teach the children numbers
in Chinese, and a few greetings and sayings. When I taught them the numbers, we
acted out the sounds we were making. For instance, er4, which you say like
‘Arr,’ while falling in tone, sounded like a pirate, so whenever we said two in
Chinese, everyone had to be like a pirate and sport their hook! When we said
three, san1, we all looked up to the sun and said it in a high, flat tone. We
also taught them I love you in Chinese, wo3 ai2 ni3, and a couple greetings.
Then, we had them practice by saying I love you in Chinese to their parents. </div>
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One of the boys was very shy, and I couldn’t quite figure
out how to get him out of his shell. I’m sure if this was a more frequent class
than once, and then never again, I could have a better rapport with him, enough
to get him talking and participating. It’s tough in just one half hour session.
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Another regret I have is that I wasn’t better prepared. I was ready to get all
the materials together and everything to have pictures and colors and more
exciting things than we had, but then I was told I wouldn’t be doing it by the
people who ran the festival. They wanted someone with more experience with the
culture festival to do it, and wanted someone who also had never attended to do
it. Thankfully, my teacher saw my talent, my interest, and my ability to do it
and made sure it was me doing it. It was a great experience, and it was nice to
hang around with adorable kids and be able to teach them things and hear them
getting it. I’m excited for next year for another chance to do it.</div>Chinese Program @ NCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959940905699129332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924171729794384101.post-67261659791798314482012-06-07T20:10:00.003-07:002012-06-10T04:48:45.490-07:00Xilin Community Center (2011-November)<br />
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Xilin Chinese Community Center is a place for retired
Chinese members of the community to come and hang out with people who speak
their language, understand their culture, and share in their retirement status.
They offer various activities for the people who come, like Mahjong, ping pong,
and English classes!</div>
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I have been helping the head English tutor with the class
since February. Me and two other girls from my Chinese class would prepare
English scripts to practice with the students. We help them with pronunciation
and understanding, and have a little Chinese, English exchange in the process.
It was a very rewarding experience, especially when the teacher presented me
with a great opportunity. The volunteer organization she had gotten involved
with the Community Center through is called Literacy Dupage. It is a non-profit
organization of very dedicated people that helps ESL and English speakers reach
higher with their grasp on the English language. She insisted I take the
training, which was 18 spread-out hours of training, all were very fun, I met a
lot of great people, and the instructor was very insightful and entertaining.
Now that I have completed the training, I have taken over for the head
instructor while she is on vacation.</div>
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The first class teaching them on my own was a disaster. I
had thought they were prepared for much more than they actually were. Because
the head instructor told me she wanted them to work on their understandings of
instructional material, I decided to aim big. I printed out a recipe, an
instructional sheet on how to assemble a chair, and a map. I thought they could
separate into groups and read it together. Then, they would tell me: 1. Words
they didn’t understand, 2. What they thought the instructional material was
about (because I omitted the titles for each one) and 3. What the steps were.
The one copy I had handed out to each group was apprehended and whisked off to
have copies made of it by one of the students. This gave us nothing to work
with, and awkward moments of looking around at each other in a chaotic mess of
what-the-hell-is-going-on until this sweetheart, who only wanted to help me out
and do well, came back with the copies. I decided to work on them one by one
because the group thing was obviously not going to happen. The entire day went
very awkwardly, we lost the chair assembly sheet, the map went well, but the
recipe was an absolute disaster. The whole day was an absolute disaster. It was
a true miracle that anybody showed up to the second day of me teaching!<br />
I will talk more about that, though, once I make sure people come to this
week’s class, because a lot of people were missing from the third class, so I
fear that I may have chased them away with my second lesson. I’ll wait to get
their feedback to tell all about that!<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6924171729794384101" name="_GoBack"></a></div>Chinese Program @ NCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959940905699129332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924171729794384101.post-3732250636196627772012-06-07T19:58:00.000-07:002012-06-10T04:45:59.588-07:00Why Chinese (2011-November)<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="266" src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/328464_236476293083279_162188435_o.jpg" width="400" />Chinese Program @ NCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959940905699129332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924171729794384101.post-73368823122720358652012-06-07T19:44:00.001-07:002012-06-07T20:00:19.908-07:00Chinatown trip (2011 October)<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/300077_229056033825305_1491234092_n.jpg" width="400" />Chinese Program @ NCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959940905699129332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924171729794384101.post-67380361378824063722011-11-06T14:39:00.000-08:002018-08-20T14:48:25.034-07:00"Why Chinese" Reflection (Rachael; 11/6/2011)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The information I found most helpful wast the advice to pick a small town to study Chinese at/ I also found it extremely helpful when Ben talked about teaching in China. Not only did he say it is a better way to immerse yourself, he ended up possible changing my mind about studying abroad while still in school. I'd love to have more time to spend in the country and teaching will give me that opportunity. Although I have already watched Chinese dramas to try to improve my language skills, it never occurred to me to just turn the TV or radio to a Chinese channel or station and just listen, even if I do not necessarily comprehend what is being said. Another helpful tip was to specialize in an industry and combine it with my knowledge of Chinese in order to get a job. Even though I do not plan on going into the business world, I still felt it was relevant to everyday life.<br />
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Part of what made the talk so enjoyable was the atmosphere. The speakers were all very laid back and tried to make it less formal. I really took pleasure in the jokes that were made, especially since they were about relating Chinese culture to American culture. We were able to learn while still having fun. I also felt that everyone there was able to relate in some way to what was being said and idd not feel offended.<br />
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