Confidence & Blue Sea 自信和藍海

Yesterday I did my 3rd time trial Chinese teaching with an American student. She shared her Chinese learning experience with me as follows:

1. Many foreign students really need good Chinese teachers to teach them Chinese in an interesting and effective way.

2. To be confident! If I think I am a qualified Chinese teacher, I don’t have to set very low tuition fee, and give students too many free lessons. Because students will doubt my teaching ability, and think my teaching is worthless.

3. On the contrary, I have to improve my teaching ability, to design more creative and attractive teaching ways, so that students can study with me more effectively and efficiently.

I really appreciated her precious opinions.

I believe there will be more and more Chinese teachers in the future, just like English teachers at present. And at that time, the tuition fee of Chinese teachers will be likely to get lower and lower. To develop greater teaching skills and accumulate more teaching experience will be the only way to attract more students. I expect myself to seek the Blue Sea in the Red, and do not use the way lowering tuition to attract students.



今天我跟一位美國學生做了第三次的試教。她跟我分享了一些她學習中文的經驗如下：

１、很多外國學生真需要好的中文老師，要用有趣也有效的教學方式去教他們。

２、要有自信！如果我覺得我是夠格的中文老師，其實我不用一直去把我的教學價格往下殺，也不要一直給學生上免費的課，因為這樣學生會懷疑我的教學能力，也不會認為我的中文課是值得上的。

３、相反地，我應該不斷的提升自己能力，去想一些教學方法，讓學生學得更有效率，達到更好的學習效果。

非常非常地謝謝她寶貴的意見！

我想未來中文老師會愈來愈多，就會跟英文老師一樣的泛濫也說不定。到時，中文教學的價格是否也會一直地下殺呢？如果是，那不就是人家用削價競爭來形容市場的紅海嗎？

但，我還是相信一位富有教學經驗且懂得教學的好老師仍然會有他自己的市場，就像殺得一片紅海裡的藍海一樣。因此，我要以成為一位藍海老師為自我的期許！

I'm busy for? 我在忙什麼?

Today I did my second time trial Chinese teaching with quite a few South-American students. Yes, quite a few, almost ten students! I seldom faced some many students. I divided them into several groups which consisted of two people, and taught them in turn. Most of them have just learned Chinese for three months, and wanted me to help them review Hanyu Pinyin. I don’t think that teaching or learning Chinese pronunciation is an easy task. Even though Taiwanese can speak Chinese fluently, not everyone can pronounce each Chinese phonetic alphabet precisely. After coming home, I read books and thought how to teach student Chinese pronunciation more effectively. Especially, I knew a few Chinese phonetic alphabet were difficulty for students to pronounce.

Another good thing was that my best friend, Rodman Lu visited my blog, and gave me some suggestions. I really thanked his kindness and ideas.

I know I still have a lot of things to do; and actually, I am very busy recently. Do you know what I am busy for?

1. Finding students
2. Finding textbooks and teaching materials
3. Listening Chinese teaching lectures
4. Teaching students
5. Blogging
6. Designing teaching record form

...and so on…

All things are difficult before they are easy~~

I know there will be more and more students or visitors come to my blog to find information. And I just start my teaching business. Please give me some time and you will see more interesting things here.


今天我跟了好幾位的南美同學做了我第二次的中文試教。對，真的是好幾位，有快十位了！這或許會是我這陣子面對最多學生的一次。我把他們分成兩人，兩人一組，然後開始跟他們車輪戰。

他們才學了中文三個月，想要我加強他們的發音。說實在的，不要小看中文的發音，我回家後馬上再做研究，看要怎麼教他們分清楚這些難發的音。

我的好朋友──小呂最近造訪我的部落格，也給我一些建議。很謝謝他！

我知道還有很多事要做，但也因為我最近實在是很忙。你們想知道最近我都在忙些什麼嗎？

１、找有緣的學生
２、找適當教材
３、聽華語教學講座
４、真槍實彈的試教學生
５、寫心得文章於部落格
６、設計教學表格

……等等……等等

萬事起頭難～～

我知道有愈來愈多我試教的學生或有興趣的朋友會陸續造訪我的部落格，請給我一點時間。你們會看到更多你們想要知道的東西，或是更多有趣的東西。

First Time 第一次

Today I started to do my first time trial Chinese teaching with an European student. I was very lucky to teach him. He had some basic Chinese level; and he was really a nice and studious guy. I truly thanked him to give me this opportunity. It was always uneasy to make the first step, but I have made it.

When I was teaching him, I got some ideas about teaching. It also let me recall how I studied in language schools. And after finishing our course, I was keeping thinking about how I should design my own teaching plans and set up my own teaching methods. Yes! My own way! Definitely!

Please check these articles on the top of my blog.


今天跟我第一個試教的學生開始了我的中文試教教學。我很幸運能教到他。他是一個很好也很好學的人，基本的中文程度還滿不錯的，也很感謝他給我這樣的機會！第一步總是不容易的，但是我做到了！

從他身上，我得到一些關於教學的啟發。也讓我想到以前在語言學校時，我是怎麼上課。而在結束教學之後，我也不斷在思考，我該要怎麼樣去設計我的教學課程和教學方法－－「一套屬於我自己的方式」。所有的心得我已經至頂，請見－－「我的教學方法」系列。

Just Do It! 做就對了嘛!

1. Passing out my business cards

This afternoon, I went to Shida to pass out my business cards to foreign students.

Although someone may felt strange at what I was doing, I told myself that I just wanted to help them learn Chinese. For them, they could learn Chinese, and for me, I could accumulated my experience of teaching Chinese. It was like a mutual assistance, and unnecessary to think it so complicatedly.

I passed out my business cards to around 10 foreign students in three hours. All of them were friendly, but I was not sure whether they really wanted to do a trial Chinese teaching with me or not. I just knew what I wanted to do was to help other people, so I didn’t care about someone’s judgment.

2. Renewing my blog

After coming home, I renewed my blog; and added some photos that I took when I studied abroad in order to prove what I wrote on the CV. Speak truly, I can understand that everyone has self-defense and perhaps some of them may guess my motive about free trial Chinese teaching. However; if I intend to do something , I can just hind my profile. In fact, on the contrary, you can see that I have revealed lots of my personal information; and I believe that it is enough to show my sincerity.

So….JUST DO IT!!


一、發名片，找外國學生：

今天帶著自己訂作的名片去師大發。

雖然這樣的主動出擊，可能有點奇怪。但是我告訴自己：我是去幫助他們這些外國學生的，他們學到中文，我累積到教中文的經驗，說穿了，就是互相幫助而己，沒有什麼大不了的。

後來在那的三個多小時，我發了快十張名片給不同的外國學生。他們大部份都很友善，至於他們要不要找我教，那就看個人的意願。很多事我們只要堅持我們的出發點是正確的那就好，不用太去在意別人的眼光。

二、更新部落格

回家後，我更新了我部落格，加了一些我在國外的照片，為的是更取信於人。其實每個人都會有防心，這些拿到我名片的人，可能也會去猜測我的動機。但說真的，我已經在網誌上透露了很多我私人的事，如果我有什麼不單純的動機，想必我不會透露這麼多事。所以，你們要就趕快哦！！