Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Write a diary about your recent life + work – tell me what you’ve been doing, working on, thinking about.

simple writing HW + lots of speaking.

Below is what I put down as Personal interests for a mentorship program which I hope to show my own interests and attract people who is seeking for a mentor or mentee.

“I’m a fan of practicing meditation in personal life, I live with my partner in a lovely apartment with green plants in every room. In work I like to seek and speak out my own truth or situation and remove communication blockers where I can. I also like exploring diversity and inclusion, female in work, work-life balance related topics which I believe could benefit my daily work.”

I found a mentor who has the same diversity & inclusion interest, I submitted a connection request to her and she accepted it. While feeling exited to have a mentor, I feel a bit nervous to talk to her.

Below is my mentor’s About Me which looks more advanced in vocabulary wise than what I wrote:

“In Jane’s role she serves on the *** training, as well as contributes tp key goals such as helping teams use data to drive decisions and leadership mindset. In her professional and personal pursuits, she strives to live her mantra, “Leading innovation, transformation & inclusive dream teams” which makes her recent career pivot to helping teams with their transformation through embracing Agile principles especially meaningful to her. Jane has deep experience engaging customers and using design thinking to build innovative solutions to complex, ambiguous challenges.”

Below is what I put down as Personal interests for a mentorship program in which I hope to show my own interests and attract people who are seeking for a mentor or mentee.

“I’m a fan of practicing meditation in personal life, and I live with my partner in a lovely apartment with green plants in every room. In my work / at work / in my career I like to seek and speak out my own truth or situation and remove communication blockers where I can. I also like exploring diversity and inclusion, females in business / females in the workplace, work-life balance related topics which I believe could benefit my daily work.”

I found a mentor who has the same diversity & inclusion interests / the same interest in diversity and inclusion, I submitted a connection request to her and she accepted it. While feeling excited to have a mentor, I feel a bit nervous to talk to her.

Below is my mentor’s About Me which looks more advanced in vocabulary wise / in terms of vocabulary / when it comes to vocabulary than what I wrote:

“In Jane’s role she serves on the *** training, as well as contributes (helps) to key goals such as helping teams use data to drive (push / make) decisions and leadership mindset. In her professional and personal pursuits (things she does), she strives (tries) to live her mantra, “Leading innovation, transformation & inclusive dream teams” which makes her recent career pivot (change / direction switch) to helping teams with their transformation through embracing (accepting / encouraging) Agile principles especially meaningful to her. Jane has deep experience engaging customers and using design thinking to build innovative solutions to complex, ambiguous challenges.”

So basically what I need is XYZ

Grammar

a normal people – a normal person

I started from figure out my own problem – I started from figuring out my own problems 

seek for a teacher – I seek a teacher 

having meditation – doing meditation

came to office – came to the office / my office 

i started to prepare the call with you – prepare for the call

i prepare sth – to make that thing
i prepare for sth – to get ready because you’re going to do sth
eg. Both the teacher and the student prepare for the class. However, only the teacher prepares the class (makes the class)

i do work on a project – I am working on a project / I have been working on a project

my first job was working at / in MS

now it’s 7 years after my graduation – it has been 7 years since my graduation

Vocabulary

speak – to express yourself
speak out – to protest / spread awareness of sth
speak up – to speak louder / to say sth when other are quiet / when you’re quiet
eg. He treated me really unprofessionally, so I might speak out. / speak out against his treatment of me.
eg2. Please speak up! I can’t hear you!

Jesse will try to contribute to my English learning = he will do sth which hopefully will be useful to my English learning

pursue – chase + try to get (determined)
eg. I always pursue success / success is my key pursuit

seek – try to find (less active, less strong, less determined)

want – I hope to / I’m interested in / I’m looking to 
need – It’s important for me to / it’s essential that I …
like – I’m into / I’m a big fan of / I’m keen on … 

direct – zhi jie de

Pronunciation

th – them / the / those / with / that’s / other / mouth

month – mun th
mouth – maoo th

i / ee – him / me

same – aeeee
eg. I have the same problem

kind – eye – kaaiiiiinnnd
mine – maaaaiiiiiiinnnn

project – proh JECKT

infrastructure – in fra struh(k) chur (4 sounds)