Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Do a speaking exercise like we did today. Say a whole story, with teacher writing entire thing and correcting today. Focus on chinglish mistakes and chinglish sentences.

Write a diary about sth that is happening at the moment like a tv show you’re watching – and if you can, use some of the words from today and avoid the chinglish mistakes you made in your speaking.

appease – reluctant, but do sth to make sb else happy

please – do sth to make sb else happy

Grammar

it’s my fifth year working in my company – I have worked here for 5 years / it’s my fifth year working in this company / in my current company 

how to say – how do you say? 

Vocabulary

currently / at present
eg. at present i’m looking at moving to another company

accolade – award / reward / recognition / praise
eg. I got lots of accolades for this project

I’m looking for companies where I can get an internal referral 

regimented – sth that has lots of rules / regulations like the army
eg. i feel like this company isr eally regimented

diaphram – the part of your body that you sing from

at the very first beginning the reason why i wanna take the singing classes, i do wanna sing a song during my wedding, my wedding it postponed due to the covid. The very first motivation that drives me to go for it. and after it, my little sister she took some singing classes, her singing improved a lot just by 20 classes… and i think it’s useful after you practice you’re gona improve a lot. I just go search on dzdp and then find something that look good and then i just go there and there is a female teacher and then we just start the classes without any, how to say, it’s a trial class and normally when we go to a class we chat a bit about what you wanna achieve and why you’re here. she just exactly skip. what i have learned in the past 2 classes, the key is to use the muscle in your stomach to project the sound out. i will go to the studio, it’s not far from my home, and i think those teacher they maybe college student, but they look young.

in the beginning / initially the reason why i wanted to take the singing classes, is because i really wanna sing a song for my wedding, which was postponed due to the covid. So that was the very first motivation that drives me to go for it / sign up for it. and after that, my little sister she took some singing classes, and her singing improved a lot just from 20 classes / by taking 20 classes… and i think most people are gonna improve a lot after practicing. I just searched on dzdp and then found something that looked good and then i just went there and there was a female teacher and then we just started the classes without any conversation / small talk, how to say, it was a trial class and normally when we go to a class we chat a bit about what you wanna achieve and why you’re here. she just totally skipped that part. what i have learned in the last 2 classes, is that the key is to use the muscles in your stomach to project the sound / to push the sound out. i will go to the studio which is not far from my home, and i think those teachers are probably college students, as they look young.