NO Mandarin Sessions Available from 1/23 - 1/29

Dear Students, 

Thank you all very much for all your support in my teaching in the past year! :) Next week is Chinese New Year (Jan 23rd - Jan 29th), I am taking a trip to the east coast of Taiwan for a vacation. I SO NEED A VACATION!!! Therefore, NO Mandarin sessions are scheduled during that week. However, please do contact me at peggyteacheschinese@gmail.com to schedule lessons for January 30th onward.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

新年快乐！:)

Best, 

Peggy

Mandarin Lesson , Chinese Girl Skates Better Than Wayne Gretzky

新年快樂！！！Happy New Year Everyone!!! Wish you all a wonderful New Year! This is the first Mandarin lesson of 2012: 

Intro - Peggy Lee First Time Skating 0:01
Vocabulary I: Skating 1:02
Vocabulary II: Style of Skating 1:51
Sentence Pattern: Can you skate? with 會 huiˋ 3:21
End - Peggy Lee Skates Better than Wayne Gretzky 5:00

Mandarin Lesson , Hiking a Mountain in Chinese

Dajia hao! Hope you are all doing well.

This is a lesson on Hiking in Mandarin. :)

Lesson Structure: 

Intro: Ascending Keelung Mountain 0:01
Lesson I: Vocabulary 1:14
Lesson II: Useful Sentence Pattern 3:00
Ending: Descending Keelung Mountain 5:22

Thank you for watching! Please share my videos for me~ :) Xiexie. 

Get a New Computer? Never Again!

So here's the story of my life!

As you see in my latest video, whatever I have been using cannot live up to the demand of high quality videos I need for YouTube. I finally had enough money to purchase a new computer. My wish for a better computer has been held on wait. 

- 10/19: Ordered a brand new Macbook Pro

- 10/24: Expected arrival Date

- 10/22: WOW! Unexpected upgrade for FREE! PRICE: Wait for one more month until 11/28.

After one month...

- 11/22 Call from the delivery company saying there was a crack on the shipping box. 

- 11/23 Received anyway after a month and half wait. BUT there is a huge INDENTION on the screen. 

-11/23 Called to Apple to ask for a replacement. Informed the need to wait for one more week!!!!! 

- 11/30 Finally received a new computer from Apple, plus a free magic mouse. :) 

Peggy Lee Teaches Chinese in America

大家好,

I hope you are all doing well. :) Here's an update in Chinese about my recent life:

1. New Computer 

2. Interview Worldwide Viewers

3. Taiwanese Traditional Culture: Hand Puppet Show(布袋戲)

4. Fulbright Brings Peggy Lee to Your Campus

Chinese Script: 

「好啦! 我放棄了。

原本想說等我拿到新的電腦再上傳一部新的影片，但很不幸的是，我在十月中訂購的電腦，竟然要等到這個月十一月底才拿得到。距離現在都還有一段時間，SO HERE’S AN UPDATE。我一直以來所使用的電腦已經五年多了。它的速度實在是跟不上高畫質的影片。每次編輯的時候 ，三不五時就給我當機。所以我決定乾脆買一台電腦好了。在這也要再次感謝所有捐款的支持者，不論金額多寡，每一份心意我都心存感激唷！

接下來，是我去參加一個朋友生日派對的影片。在那派對，我遇到了許多觀看我的影片學中文的國際學生。我們來聽聽他們怎麼說。

上個周末，一大清早，還在睡夢中的我耳邊傳來一陣喧嘩。去查看之後，原來是附近的廟口有一場布袋戲的表演。在這帶你們來看一段台灣傳統文化：布袋戲表演的影片。」

References: 

The clip of Taiwanese Hand Puppet show is a public event.

The sound effect is from Freesound.org: yeah is added by the user, totya

The use of background music is approved by the YouTube user, rickvanman