Many words in this lesson are taught in previous lessons. It'd be easier for students to keep up with the pace if one is familiar with last week's lesson on Hotel Reservation.

I've been told by my friends that I act with a great ecstasy in the clips of my YouTube videos. "That was an astute observation!" I thought. I'd never acted before until I started this YouTube channel. If you have been watching my videos since I started it, you would have seen that we begun with a plain lecture with a pretty detailed explanation on usage of terms and grammar (How to Say Hello in Chinese and Chinese Tones). My experience of having been tutoring foreigners here in Taiwan Chinese for over two years explains why. Although I insisted on remaining the same style of teaching in which I adopted in real life in the past two years, the contemporary trend of video production forced me to change into a livelier, succinct and a rather humorous teaching approach. Finally, we added a clip in our video which is followed by minutes of lecture ("Excuse me, Sorry, It's Okay" in Chinese). I also had to cut down the time spent on repetition, examples provided and literal explanation in details in order to keep each video less than 10 minute. Honestly, I’m still trying to get used to it. Differing from having the whole hour for my own indulgent when my foreign student had no idea where to start, nor did s/he know where to end in each paid tutor lesson as s/he just landed in The Island two weeks ago, this is like a condense lesson of one that could have taken more than one hour to explain. This whole thing has been a challenge, not only the required acting skill but also the new teaching technique that has to nail. So I guess my friends were right about my almost real acting; I would never have known whatever I was capable of not if my potential was dug out by force after all.

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Lesson Content References retrieved from Unit 3, Vol. 10, Interactive Chinese, LiveABC