The project that I did in Chinese 290 was being a Chinese tutor. The main things of beinng a tutor is to help students practice speaking Chinese in scenarios, and correcting homework. The work is not simple, and it is hard to teach people in English. Chinese is my first language and I can speak fluently, but speaking in English is difficult for me. It was a challenge that explain thing in second language and within the thought of the first language, the process of interpretation is not direct. And being a tutor was not easy because teaching requires responsibility. Because I have to make sure every words I said were correct and didn’t mislead the students, otherwise it would be my fault that teaching the wrong thing to the students.
Speaking of learning language, it is similar to learning computer language. Both learning require two things, following the rules and practices. Rules of learning language would be learning grammar and vocabulary, same as learning computer language. Learing computer language also needs to write in correct constructor and function. And be able to speak fluently, practice is necessary, practices make you think deeper in to the language and make people to be good at them.