F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)(S)

Vocabulary

indifferent – to have no feelings about something

e.g. I’m not positive or negative about this thing — I’m indifferent — I don’t really care.

e.g. Where do you want to eat tonight? Chinese or German food. I’m indifferent. Choose wherever you want.

arrogant – 傲慢

ignorant – 无知

sense of superiority – 优势 – a feeling of superiority

e.g. America’s sense of superiority sometimes comes off as arrogance.

e.g. If a person has a sense of superiority usually they will not respect others, even if they try.

concealing / conceal – to hide

Grammar

Expressing something happening right now

I have a very busy week this week / I am having a very busy week this week

the driver will picks them up / the driver will pick them up

I had to appoint many meetings for them this week / I had to arrange any meetings for them this week

Just focus on plural nouns with plural verbs.

Original

It depends on what kind of customers we want to visit. If just for Chinese customers I don’t think it will be useful – I with the Chinese customers with my foreign colleague – sometimes if we contact with a foreigner customer or visit foreign customers it will probably be useful. Nowadays, I think Chinese have learn more interested about foreigners – Chinese people aren’t as interested in foreigners – we saw more and more foreigners in China, and we know how they work and how they think in general, especially in big cities, in Shanghai and Beijing.

Corrected

It depends on what kind of customers we want to visit. If it’s  just for Chinese customers I don’t think they will be useful – I with the Chinese customers with my foreign colleagues  – sometimes if we to contact with a foreigner customer or visit foreign customers it will probably be useful. Nowadays, I think Chinese people have learn more interested about foreigners – Chinese people aren’t as interested in foreigners – we see more and more foreigners in China, and we know how they work and how they think in general, especially in big cities, in Shanghai and Beijing.

Original

Foreigners just people, and foreigners always don’t understand what Chinese think about or how Chinese think about it. Even though they don’t show about it…they have. So I think it should be very difficult for a foreigner who wants to do some business in China without help from Chinese colleagues. Now I am in charge of industrial sector in my company so I have many foreign customers – I talked to them, discussed with them, of course even though all of the customers – even though  not all of the customers are foreigners but they are Chinese and working for a foreign company most of foreigner companies have many problems.

Corrected

Foreigners are just people like everyone else / they aren’t special, and foreigners always don’t / never understand what Chinese people think about or how Chinese people think about things. Even though they don’t show about it…they have it. So I think it should be very difficult for a foreigner who wants to do some business in China without help from Chinese colleagues. Now I am in charge of the industrial sector in my company so I have many foreign customers – I talk to them, discuss with them, of course even though all of the customers – even though  not all of the customers are foreigners but they may be Chinese people and working for a foreign company most of the foreigner companies / most foreign companies have many problems.

Original

One I think the first reason is the cost this kind of company has many foreigner employees in China so this foreigner employees has higher salaries than Chinese companies, not only salary, but also other cost of – maybe if you rent a house, your company will pay a part of the cost of your house – so this kind of companies don’t have a good price – OK their products don’t have a good price. The second reason – I think it should be the policy of the government – of course Chinese government wants Chinese company can have a good competition – so maybe governments insure some policy which is better for local companies.

Corrected

One I think the first reason are the costs this kind of company has many foreigner employees in China so these foreigner employees have higher salaries than Chinese companies, not only salary, but also other costs of – maybe if you rent a house, your company will pay a part of the cost of your house / [relocation expenses] – so this kind of company doesn’t have a good price / [competitive price] – OK their products don’t have a good price. The second reason – I think it should be the policy of the government – of course Chinese government wants Chinese companies to have strong competitive advantage – so maybe governments can enact / can issue some policies which  are better for local companies.