Sayaka Chatani

The First day of Classes

My classes have started at ICLP. My very first class (8:10-9:00) was 單班課 (man-to-man). The other three classes are 合班課 that has one or two other students. Since classes are very small, it's not like students gathering in classrooms, but rather students visiting teachers' offices. The teachers are very nice. They are all confident in the students' improvement in Chinese. It seems the curriculum is well-organized, and the communication among the teachers is pretty good.

One thing I am not very satisfied with is that they gave us cassette tapes for listening practice. Cassette tapes!! I thought nobody uses them any more in this century. Maybe it is Columbia Chinese teachers that are all too techy (they gave us MP3s burnt on a CD-R)...（日本語が続く）

今日から授業開始。久々に早起きしました。8：10から始まる授業は一対一の授業で、それ以外の３つのクラスは1〜2人のクラスメイトがいます。今日はまだイントロダクションだったのでこれからどれくらい大変になるか分からないんですが、とりあえず、毎日どっちゃり宿題が出るということが分かりました。評判の教諭陣は、噂どおり皆面白くて楽しい人たちです。私の先生は皆女性。面白い話ができそうです。とにかく、早く台湾人に化けられるように頑張って勉強します！ Posted by sayaka at September 29, 2003 06:15 PM | TrackBack