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Objective:
The final oral presentation is to produce a creative work that consolidates/showcases what you have learned in CHIN1010.

What you need to do:
You need to create a 3-minute movie showcasing what you have learned and what you are able to express in Chinese now. You have the following options in terms of the theme of your movie:

1. Your relationship with your Chinese friend: the differences, the commonness, sweet moments, frustrations, fun activities, etc. Reason to choose this option is that you have already built up the content and even images you need for putting together this movie. What you need now is being selective and creative and present your relationship in a new light (instead of entirely repeating what you already have in your posts.
2. A self-portray. Present yourself as a college student, a big brother/sister, a child, a future teacher/doctor, etc.) Again, be creative and make it fun.
3. A favorite person (a fictional character or a real person).
4. An imaginary character you created yourself.

Resources:

1. Class time will be allocated to show how to put images together to create a movie.
2. Web links to windows and Mac movie maker/iMovie tutorials are at collab.

Grading criteria:

1. Substantial and interesting content (50%)
2. A wide range of vocabulary and grammar (L1-9) accurately used (45%)
3. Production aspects of the video including clarity of voice and adequate visual aids (5%)

Other options:

1. Live PowerPoint Presentation (will be recorded)

If putting together a movie is too much of a challenge for you technically, you have the option of giving a Powerpoint presentation. Your presentation will be recorded because you will need to include this final oral presentation into your CHIN1010 Course Portfolio.

2. Producing an audio book with your own voice as audio, your writing as the text, and images as illustrations.

THU | 4/26 ：多一天 准备小电影

FRI | 4/27 ：梦琪; 思佳; 励凯；佩玲;丽雅;
MON | 4/30 ：华泰; 美娜；雨果； 曼莎；安可；受延
TUE | 5/1：安诚；钟仁；进义；俊武；瑞恩；
wrapping up the course and course evaluation

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In the time between now and the last reflection, 我觉得我学很多的中文。我知道一点儿的生词和语法。我现在觉得中文有一点儿难，可是我希望以后觉得中文不太难和能说中文说的很好。
My studying habits haven't changed much since the last reflection, though I spend a bit more time learning the vocabulary since there is considerably more per dialogue in recent chapters. 我写汉字写得很忙，我联系写汉字送一以后我写字写得不太忙。
I've also found other reasons for wanting to learn Chinese. At first, I wanted to be able to talk to my parents and my other family. It was always frustrating to be left out of conversation during the holidays, when then whole family went to my Aunt's house to celebrate. While this is still extremely important to met, during the course of the semester, I've also become interested in visiting China, or maybe even studying abroad. Even though both my parents are from Hong Kong, I realized there is still so much I don't know about the culture and the people. It would be nice to get in touch with my background.
For my final project, I think I will either record a video or create a voiceover for a video of pictures from this year, though I'm not completely sure of my direction at the moment.

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我觉得学中文很难，因为中文有很多的生词。It kind of both helps and doesn't help that we have 中文课every day (所以功课 every day), but I personally 觉得复习中文课很难 when I am 很忙 with 别的课 that require work that's less frequent, but more time consuming/taxing than 中文.
It has been important to me to set aside a time every day (about 30 minutes to 1 hour) to do homework and learn as much while doing the homework, since I couldn't find the time to separately study Chinese other than in that allocated time slot. It also helped to casually speak in Chinese with any Chinese friend I was around, whether or not it annoyed them away from me.

Project
I don't know yet, but maybe a skit?

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大家好／老师好，

Staying on top of things:
Biggest tip 我可以给 to 我的同学们, even to myself, is to not procrastinate. 我觉得 procrastinating for a language course is probably the worst thing 你们 can do, 因为 spacing out 你的 studies is crucial for memory.

Final project:
Thinking of making a video (TBD).

Overall thoughts:
中文 一零一零 has been fun and challenging, wish I could continue on my journey of 中文 graduation 以后, 但是 it will most likely 不 happen。。。 因为 life and bills.

谢谢。再见.

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Reflection 2 - Nicholas van den Nieuwenhuizen

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Reflection 2 - Nicholas van den Nieuwenhuizen

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To be honest, I'm not too pressured by the upcoming tests and assignments, save for the final project.  I hate taking videos, so, like Pam, I'm going to try for a powerpoint project or something similar. In general, Chinese at this level is not that complex of a language, as I find the grammar itself to be not that difficult or complicated.  The real challenge is in the new vocabulary because the characters are growing larger, more complicated, and harder to draw than they were in the beginning of the class.  Nevertheless, I'd much rather take this than any other language offered.
As for how I deal with the schedule, I try to do the homework before, but on the same day as, class.  That way I have it fresh in my mind as I  come into class and take the 听写.  Other than that, I really try to fit my homework in around my other classes and their homework.  I find that this solution generally works pretty well.
For my final project I'm going to try to do a powerpoint on some part of Chinese culture, maybe comparing it to American culture. It all depends on the rubric and guidelines for the project. All I know is that I'm going to try and avoid a full on video.

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Since the last reflection, I have been thinking more about how I want to grow from this class. I signed up for CHIN1010 as an elective class, because I wanted to be able to learn a language that so many people around the world speak. This is what many of my peers have said, and I totally agree with that thought process. I have never taken a language class at UVA, so I really underestimated how much time this class would take. One difficult aspect of Chinese is that you can’t guess what a word is if you forgot it and you can’t try using your knowledge of English to help you with grammar. So, I’ve really learned the importance of spending time to really learn well the Chinese characters and their definitions. Grammar has also been getting more difficult in the class, so I’m going to spend more time on that as well.

One big obstacle for me for this class is time. I just wish I had more time to spend on Chinese, but I just quickly memorize the words for each day and just do the homework. I don’t spend time practicing my Chinese with a Chinese friend or practicing the old stuff we have learned, and that is because I don’t have much time in my schedule to spend more time on this class.

For tips, I have learned that the best way to do well on 听写 for me is to write down the sentences in pinyin and say the words out loud while writing down the Chinese characters to the pinyin. Also, for efficiency sake, I go through each sentence and only focus on the words I don’t recognize or know how to write. This makes doing 听写 quicker and smarter.

In terms of juggling everything, I don’t think I can give good advice on how to stay on top of things and finish strong. I’m not doing as well I would like in this class, so I definitely appreciate everyone else’s comments. I hope to just have more free time on the weekends to study up on Chinese and review more often.

For my final presentation, I hope to make a music video where I rap in Chinese. I would want to make it funny and I can touch upon different topics that we have focused on in class such as family, hobbies, and school. I will even include Wang Peng and Li You in it.

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I really enjoy learning new languages and the cultures that match them. I like to compare how each country lives and speaks with American culture and also Korean culture. In high school I focused on learning Spanish because I felt it was an easier language, however, I ended up being given the opportunity to take a trip to El Salvador on a missions trip with my church. The fact that I could connect and communicate with the people I met there made such a difference and I felt I was able to have a larger impact on their life. It was then that I realized how important and amazing knowing another language is. Maybe the effects are not immediately seen, but understanding just one more language gives you the opportunity to meet and connect with a new person even if it's random. I could help one more person find their destination or even just introduce places to a wandering tourists. All languages have their own nuances and habits like how 要是别人说：“你家很大和很漂亮。“ 你可以说：”哪里哪里。“ In America, most people would respond with a "thank you" and compliment them back, however, in China it is much more common to answer modestly. Just little things like this are interesting to me.
I would say what drives me to continue learning is because I just have so much fun learning a new language that the work does not really feel like work. I like to take a break from my other school and finish my Chinese homework or try practicing Chinese with my friends. It is like I am in kindergarten again and I want to show off to my friends how well I can write Chinese and speak it, I get fascinated when I see my vocabulary continue to grow and become more and more robust.
For my final project I am thinking of recreating me meeting my first year roommate, but it goes differently because I can speak to her and her parents in Chinese. I am not completely sure yet, but I think this is the direction I am thinking about.

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I've always been interested in getting to know the world all around me, not just the area around me. But in this day and age, even the area around one is always one that is very global in perspective. Living near Washington D.C., people from all over the world have always surrounded me and I've been at the forefront of a major cultural mixing bowl. In my neighborhood, there are families from dozens of different countries and with them, they bring several different languages and cultures. At my various summer jobs and internships in the past, I've also interacted closely with people all over the world. Chinese is currently the fifth language I'm learning and with each new language I learn, my capability of forming an intimate relationship with someone whose life has been so different yet similar at the same time is immensely increased. Each new language opens up a door to a room full of new people and Chinese opens the door to one of largest and most influential rooms of all. I want to be able to enter that room and be part of that large group of unique individuals and work to help bring together all of those different rooms around the world into one. Learning Chinese is a very important step towards that ultimate goal.

For my Chinese project, I plan to make a film with all of the Chinese friends who I knew 以前学中文和我的中国朋友现在。It'll be a good way for me to put together all that I've learned with many native speakers who are more than happy to help me learn more about them and their cultures.

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I believe my motivation to learn Chinese and other languages stems from the fact that I want to get to understand different perspectives from people around the world. Like Julia, I also want to be connected with those 1.2 billion people and I want to know what kinds of things they think of. There's this article talking about how the language you speak may affect the way we think. To steal from that article, it notes that "For centuries, people thought that words were just labels for objects, and that different languages merely attached different strings of sounds to things—or, more accurately, to concepts. Now it was suggested that the world might be perceived differently by people speaking different languages. Or, more radically, that people could only perceive aspects of the world for which their languages have words." (How the Language We Speak Affects the Way We Think by Antonio Benítez-Burraco Ph.D.). I want to emphasize that last section. That is the reason I want to learn Chinese. For a lot of the words in Chinese, there are no English equivalent. Some are even extremely difficult to give an English explanation to, and my 中国朋友s know this struggle whenever I ask them to explain the definition of a Chinese word.

In all honesty, I can't really say that I have a strategy to push on. I just have a mindset that I have to try my best and in order to do that I must study. I guess if I were to offer my two cents, I would say that it's because I live solely in the present and the immediate future. I try to only think of the work I have to get done rather than the reward of not having to do work after I finish something. I want to offer a good representation of myself to my professors, so I try to do the best that I can to show what I am capable of. Not only do I want to do it for my professors, I also want to prove to myself that I am able to do things I never thought I'd be able to do. With this in mind, I try to push myself forward with each step so that I can just look back in the end and see how far I've come.

For my final project, I think I will talk about myself and my journey with learning languages (concentrating with Chinese) and how I plan to continue. I might use a video or a powerpoint as a medium, but I'm not quite sure yet.

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我在高中学的是时候，我觉得中文太难了。我学中文学得太慢了。我现在在大学觉得中文不太难。我们也现在学中文学非常h快。我的中文提高得很多。原来我的发音太不好了，现在我的发音不太不好因为跟我的同学何老师联系说中文。我也写汉字写得更好。

最后的星期太难了。暑假以前，我有太多了考试和工作。My strategy during this difficult time is just to do everything when it is assigned. Having things pile up, no matter whether their Chinese or another class, is a disaster waiting to happen. I always dedicate some time each day to do things that are not assigned for the next day.

As for my project, I am considering making a powerpoint or movie revolving around my extended family in China or my maternal grandmother (who is from China), since I have wanted to learn more about them for some time now.

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I feel like I am definitely sensing that I'm reaching a transition point in my path to learning Chinese. After getting past that first obstacle of deciding to learn Chinese and becoming familiar with studying the language, I am at a crossroads. Do I continue learning Chinese or do I stop here, with my basic knowledge of Chinese? What makes me continue my interest in Chinese is the strong application it has in my everyday life. As many of us know,  so many languages are connected. In the same way Spanish has a similar syntax and vocabulary to English, Chinese is very interconnected with Korean. This makes learning the language so much fun, because I get to make connections with Korean words that I have been using without much thought to Chinese vocabulary we are learning in class. My strategies to finish this semester strong is by reserving time in my schedule to go over the dialogue and write out the sentences myself. I make my own version of the dialogue in the textbook and align them by 拼音，汉子，和 英文 to make it easier to compare the sentences when 我准备听写。我也跟我的同学联系说中文，因为我觉得说中文说得不好，所以我下课以后得练习说中文。It also helps that my 中国朋友 is also my housemate, because I can just knock on her door if I am confused about something. My motivation to excel in Chinese stems from the fact that so many of my friends are fluent in Chinese and my goal is to one day be able to speak with them in Chinese in casual conversations. Also, I want to be able to show my family how Chinese is so connected with their native tongue and encourage them to try learning Chinese as well. I hope to able to one day be able to learn songs in Chinese and watch Chinese dramas as well, because I hear Chinese songs from my friends but I don't understand the lyrics.
For my final project, I plan to create a video where 我跟我的中国朋友吃午饭，聊天人。 There's a Chinese restaurant I've been to pretty often at UVA, called Ginkgo, and their menus are also written in Chinese, so that place has been a really fun place to practice my Chinese and apply what I learned in everyday life.

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As Shakespeare says "a poor thing but mine own"...

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I agree with Julia that Chinese is a really difficult language to learn. It takes constant upkeep, and so I think my overall goal extends beyond this class. I want to focus on keeping my Chinese sharp over the summer, whether that means calling my 中国朋友 and forcing myself to 说话 over the电话 (my 说话中文 is definitely my greatest struggle), or reviewing vocabulary. I want to come back in the fall ready to keep going, and prepared to do even better this coming semester.
I think I would like to use my final project to explain a bit more about my life as a college student. It's been an interesting first year at school, making new friends but still thinking of my family back home, and I want my movie to explore that balance a bit.

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Chinese is a hard language to learn. I think on the world rankings of hardest languages to learn, it's consistently in the top 5 following Arabic. It is also, however, the native language of over 1.2 billion people, meaning that the Chinese language provides 1.2 billion opportunities for me to connect intimately with a proudly unique people, culture, and economy. Perhaps I'm bias due to my background, but it is these opportunities that motivate me to remain focused in my pursuit of my fluency in the language and to understand that the 听写s, 功课，和考试 are all done with a much higher purpose than completion or a grade. Chinese is a window into understanding myself and currently, the blinds are shut. I want to lift them up.

This extends into my final project. The final project, to me, is a culmination of the first step of my very long Chinese journey. I plan on creating a fictional character and making a movie. Hopefully my fictional character's journey will mimic mine in some way.

谢谢黄老师。我们每天上课的时候可以看你爱教中文，所以我们爱学习中文。

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Someone once said that to acquire a new language is to acquire a new soul. I try to focus on that as my ultimate goal.

For my project I'm inventing an imaginary Chinese friend who comes to Charlottesville for a visit. (My real Chinese friend can't come.) I am a technological idiot so I'll probably use PowerPoint. Anything else is beyond my capabilities.

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It's hard to believe we've entered the last weeks of the semester! While tests and papers and projects from all of your courses start all looming large simultaneously, time/energy/stress management becomes critical.  What are your strategies to stay on top of things and finish strong? How do you still keep that bar high when you’re so attempted to just get things done? Do you have any tips that you’d like to share with your classmates?

I also want you to include a couple of sentences explaining your plan for the final movie project. what are you going to talk about, what format (photos, drawings, songs, or video clips?).

And as always, don’t forget to comment on your classmates’ reflections. They would love to hear what you think just as much as you appreciate their comments!

你可以用中文／英文写这篇reflection。下个星期五（4月6日）晚上10点以前写好！

这个学期只剩最后的四个星期了。这四个星期，你的很多课都一起开始有很大的考试、功课、作文essays….。那你怎么用你的时间？你怎么一边好好学习，一边天天晚上还能好好睡觉？你会管理guan3li3, manage你的时间吗？你知道怎么不用天天都很累吗？知道怎么真去做你想做的事（有时候虽然你知道要做功课，但是你上网玩儿）？要是你知道，请你告诉你的同学们，帮大家这最后几个星期可以不要太累，除了学习以外，还可以跟大家一起聊天、吃饭，一起笑。

老师也希望你可以告诉大家你想怎么做你的期末小电影。你想告诉我们什么？你要用很多照片吗？还是画hua4, draw很多画？还是要唱歌？你要用什么音乐吗？

跟平常一样，你也告诉你的同学你觉得他们介绍的tips好不好，对不对，有没有用。跟你想听你的同学的想法一样，你的同学也很高兴知道你怎么想！

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Chinese is the second foreign language I started learning after I started my years at the University, and I think the most challenging language I have encountered so far, including English and Japanese. However, it was also very rewarding. Especially, I recall the Lunar New Year celebration, during which I was able to meet with other learners of Chinese, as well as some native speakers, to be especially fun and educational in terms of culture.
It is also interesting that I began to recognize more words/structures in daily conversations of Chinese students around me (which I was not capable of doing, prior to taking the class). Through daily practicing and listening, I hope to be able to accomplish more in communication through Chinese.

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I think I was always slightly interested in learning another Asian language other than Korean which I learned at home. Chinese attracted me because I had always thought the characters were interesting and pretty (like calligraphy-wise). When I can to UVA a lot of my friends had recommended taking CHIN 1010 to me and I thought it would be nice to be able to speak to my roommate’s parents since they only speak Chinese.
I can relate a lot with everyone else with the tone pronunciation. It becomes really difficult to specifically speak words with the tones and it is hard for me to tell if I am practicing the tones correctly by myself. I think 老师 is great with encouraging while correcting us at the same time when we speak in class. There are definitely a lot of assignments but I really enjoy seeing the amount of characters I know and the amount of information I can give in Chinese increase. I feel like every Grammar assignment my Chinese has improved and I can elaborate more in complex sentences rather than simple short sentences. Jin mentioned that it’s kind of cool to see Chinese characters around and be able to recognize bits and pieces and I agree. I like to spot characters I recognize as I pass by signs and the like.
It has been a great experience for me so far and learning a new language is always fun! 我很喜欢我的同学和我的中文老师！

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It's really hard to believe that time has flown so fast and i think i've been able to grow a lot with learning languages. I only just started Chinese unlike some of my other classmates, but i dont feel like im that far behind. I think learning any language is very interesting, but Chinese has really been a journey. Whether it be the specific tones, memorizing characters or talking to my Chinese friend, it feels like I'm slowly progressing on this journey.
I think the hardest thing for me is implementing the tones while im speaking, just like many of my classmates. I have to really pause and think aboit the things im going to say. One of my strengths is learning characters really quickly. I think Im able to remember characters in a very short period of time. I think my biggest secret to this is just associating each characters to mnemonics and writing them out a few times. Mnemonics are key!!!
I think the only thing i have to do is work on speaking more with my chinese friends and maybe coming to office hours.

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Similar to everyone else, I have the same sentiments about CHIN1010. It has definitely been one of the most rewarding classes that I have ever taken at UVA. I actually came into UVA having already finished my language requirement (in Spanish) and wanted to continue pursuing Spanish, because of my packed schedule in my first and second year. Now, as a third-year, I have a lot of flexibility in my major to take whatever courses I want, so I decided to take Chinese.

Because I am one of the “older” members in the class, I do have trouble giving my all to this class, which is one thing I am trying to fix. My other classes are all 3000, 4000, 5000 level classes and I am a leader in multiple organizations, so I think this has one of the biggest challenges to my ability to truly dive deeper into the Chinese language. Another challenge that I have, which is the same challenge I have always had growing up, is my speaking comprehension. In every encounter with a language, I have always been bad at speaking, and this includes English, Korean, and Spanish. I have always felt more comfortable reading and writing when learning a new language, because I am a visual learner, not an auditory learner. This makes learning Chinese 100x harder for me, because this language has multiple tones and puts a heavy emphasis on sound in order to communicate. I am aware of this, and I am hoping to find more native speakers that I can just converse with in order to get better. One thing that I think Huang 老师 can help with is giving us music, tv-shows, and other resources to listen to in order to get better at hearing stuff and learning to say sentences. That helped me a lot when I was learning Spanish.

I have learned the best way for me to remember characters is to come up with funny or weird ways to memorize them. For example, the way to write “family” still sticks in my head after Huang  老师 showed us a cool way to remember to write it. In addition to this, I think repetition is a key factor in retaining the information. Now, when I write “我” it comes to me so naturally that I don’t even need to think about it, because we have used it so many times in our homework and conversations in class.

Overall, I have really enjoyed my experiences with this class. The other people in the class and lenient grading have made it more fun than stressful, and I hope to continue improve in not only my fluency but confidence in the language.

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It's really hard to believe that time has flown so fast and i think i've been able to grow a lot with learning languages. I only just started Chinese unlike some of my other classmates, but i dont feel like im that far behind. I think learning any language is very interesting, but Chinese has really been a journey. Whether it be the specific tones, memorizing characters or talking to my Chinese friend, it feels like I'm slowly progressing on this journey.
I think the hardest thing for me is implementing the tones while im speaking, just like many of my classmates. I have to really pause and think aboit the things im going to say. One of my strengths is learning characters really quickly. I think Im able to remember characters in a very short period of time. I think my biggest secret to this is just associating each characters to mnemonics and writing them out a few times. Mnemonics are key!!!
I think the only thing i have to do is work on speaking more with my chinese friends and maybe coming to office hours.

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I’ve been studying Chinese for at least four years now. Chinese is and has been important to me as a culture thing, and my family, who are first generation Chinese immigrants on my mother’s side, have spoken it around me for a very long time. Despite my former experience, It is very refreshing to return to the basics and strengthen the weaknesses I’ve been carrying for a long time now. I found that as I advanced in my highschool Chinese, my discipline in studying waned as time passed on. I have progressed more in the first few months in college than I have an entire year in highschool, and I hope to not repeat my mistakes and continue to improve. On top of learning more about the language, I really enjoy rediscovering what I know about Chinese and Chinese culture.

As it seems many of my classmates are agreement in what the hardest aspect of Chinese is, the area that still needs the most work are also my tones. I’ve had trouble with them for many years, but Chinese 1010 is the first class that focuses on them so much. Feel free to correct me if need be.

In terms of methods that I find useful, simply drilling characters over and over has been the tried and true method for me. I also try practicing mentally as I go about my day and always ask a question when I can when I don’t something, too.

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When I was a baby, my parents first taught me how to speak Taishanese Chinese before teaching me English. It has much less speakers than Mandarin. My family on my Mother's side immigrated from a small town in Hong Kong, which is why they do not speak Mandarin. However, my parents told me that I didn't like speaking in Chinese and would only speak in English after I learned both. Soon, because I only spoke in English, I forgot all the Chinese I knew. After I started Preschool, my parents would take me to Chinese school on Saturdays, which taught Mandarin. I only lasted three years before I quit.
Mom knows Cantonese and Taishanese while my Dad speaks Cantonese and Mandarin. In my family, I'm the only one who cannot speak more than one language and I've always regretted not being able to speak to my parents in their native languages. Now I finally have an opportunity to learn and it also counts as a humanities credit!
This class so far has been challenging. One of the things I struggle with the most is tone, specifically the second one. In other languages, you only need to be careful with the pronunciation, but Chinese you have even more careful with how you speak.
Additionally, everything about CHIN1010 is more frequent than my other classes: the tests, the homework, and the meeting times. It feels a lot like high school all over again, since this is the only class that I attend every single day. It is also a lot to keep up with the homework and dictation. Other classes assign homework that is due once or twice a week, but the frequency of class makes the workload up to five times what I do for other classes.
All in all, I don't regret taking this class. While it may take up a lot of time, I am glad I am finally able to speak with my parents. This is only the first semester, so I still have a long way to go to really be able to have a full conversation with them, but I'm looking forward to the day when I will be able to tell when my family is talking about me and thinking that I can't understand them.

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Despite living in a diverse cultural community back in Northern Virginia, I actually didn't have that much exposure to Chinese before I came to UVA. I did have a lot of friends who are Chinese over the years, but either they were raised in the U.S., so English was their first language, and even if they knew Chinese, there was not really an opportunity for me to hear it in a conversational or academic setting. Growing up in a Korean family in a neighborhood with a huge Korean community, however, I managed to retain a lot of my ability to speak Korean, which helps me communicate with my family.
I realized from my visits to South Korea was that Chinese is prevalent in many aspects of the culture. The calendars are annotated in Korean, I have seen my grandmother also take memos in Korean and Chinese characters, and landmarks are based on Chinese terminology. This made me realize how useful knowing Chinese could be in learning more about my culture and its history.
When I came to UVA, many of my closest friends were either Chinese international students, Chinese Americans, or were learning Chinese. This constant exposure to my friends speaking in Chinese made my interest in the language grow, and my friends convinced me that taking CHIN1010 could be fun. My initial thought was also that my prior knowledge in Korean could help me learn a lot of the words in Chinese. I was definitely mistaken.
After about two months in CHIN1010, I realized that Chinese is complex in many different ways. I was warned about the tones before I even took this course, and yet I was still taken aback by how confusing that aspect could be. There have been definitely multiple times where I just unconsciously ignore the tones, because memorizing the word as is already takes much effort for me, and had to be corrected on my pronunciation. As Jin said, tones are definitely a new concept for many of us, especially because neither English nor Korean, in my case, uses tones. However, it is a unique part of the Chinese language. This made me become  more aware of how my friends spoke Chinese with tones, and yet have their own flow, compared to my rollercoaster that I call my tonal style. Some ways I've tried to learn the tonal aspects of the vocabulary was by visualizing the overall tones of words. For instance, bu2cuo4 has two tones that create almost a roof on the word in pinyin, which definitely helped me with memorizing a lot of the tones. Using my finger or moving my head to follow the tones when speaking also helped me track my tones.
Like most students, another obstacle I had with learning Chinese was memorizing the characters. Because English is a mainly phonetic language, these words I'm typing currently don't mean much other than that it spells out words, which have meanings. Chinese, on the other hand, have the really fascinating trait of having a very visual writing system. Each character almost paints it's own picture, giving a hint to its meaning. I remember when our 老师 (lao3shi1) taught us how to remember how to write 跳舞(tiao4wu2), and used the picture of a person jumping over a river for tiao4, which actually means to jump on its own. I try to use similar ways to memorize characters for dictations, and it really helps to try to reason why certain characters are arranged in particular ways.
All in all, before I go off on another tangent, I feel like i have developed an appreciation for Chinese, and learning new words is still exciting. I think our 老师 is really great at providing a comfortable learning environment for us and is one of the nicest professors I've met at UVA. I hope you also find joy in learning Chinese as much as we do! 再见 (zai4jian4)！

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I've taken Chinese before, back in high school, so I was already pretty well versed in almost everything we studied so far this semester. I took this class because, as a first year, I wanted to start in on my language requirement. I had previously taken Chinese and didn't want to have to exert myself too much on another language, and so ended up taking a Chinese course. Taking the Chinese placement exam was really difficult, however, so I was willing to relearn a lot of the things I remembered learning in my high school Chinese class. I was instead pleasantly surprised by what I received instead.

The most important part of any course is the teacher.  They determine the homework, the course structure, and what the attitude in the classroom is like.  Nowhere has this lesson been hammered home to me than by my high school Chinese teacher.  Homework was extreme, tests were often unfair or the material was not taught, and the lessons were almost always dreaded.  I thought that was the standard for language classes in general, and was very happy to find that that was not the case here.  Here I feel like I'm learning something new despite having learned this textbook before.  The atmosphere in the classroom is always upbeat, the material is challenging but not crushing, and the homework is not punishing.  So, thank you 老师.

My greatest weakness in Chinese the language is the pinyin. Characters are almost always distinctive enough to be memorable, and I am very good at these grammar rules that Chinese uses. Even pinyin's alphabetical translation of characters is simple. Tones, however, I am very bad at remembering and even worse at discerning.  I just can't hear the tones be distinct.  For now, my strategy for dealing with this weakness is to just memorize the tones with the characters, but that might start getting more difficult as we get to more characters.

I'm loving this class and I don't think it could be meaningfully improved in such a way that would make it more effective and more enjoyable. It is a class I'm glad I signed up for and it's filled with people who are not afraid to express themselves. Which makes it a great break from what I understood about language classes.

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To be honest, as a fourth year (esp in the spring semester), I had no reason to take a 1010 level language course because of the notorious workload. Nonetheless, I have always viewed Chinese as one of the “useful” languages to know, even if it’s just the basics, so I just wanted to give it a try. I have not taken a language course since high school, so it was definitely challenging for me to get back into the momentum of learning a new language. Although it may be challenging, it will always be rewarding at the end and 老师 makes it enjoyable to learn.

My main issues are memorizing some of the characters and pronouncing the tones, as many of you can probably relate. What I do to better my learning is to constantly rewrite the characters, while spacing out my study time, so I can embed it into my muscle memory more efficiently. Another good trick I found is to just read the dialogues over and over, until I can read it without needing the English translation. I also noticed that the grammar workbook homework is extremely helpful for memorizing characters, because you have to write so much.

It feels like I have barely scratched the surface of the Chinese language, but it’s funny when I see Chinese characters outside of class and think to myself “oh I recognize that ONE radical/character”. I hope to learn more throughout the semester, so that I can recognize more outside of the classroom.

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Deciding to take Chinese this semester was one of the best decisions that I have made here at UVA. After getting a bad signup time and finding that all of the classes I had originally planned on taking were full, I was left with an empty schedule and no idea of what classes I wanted to take the second semester of my first year. I had taken some Chinese lessons for a little less than a year in middle school and was always disappointed in myself that I had never continued on with it. Coming into college, I still had the desire to learn Chinese, but was worried that it would be a waste of time as I had already completed the general language learning requirement and may not even become fluent. I can say now that taking Chinese this semester has most definitely not been a waste of my time. Though I’m still not sure how fluent I will be by the end of my time here at UVA, I know that I will be as fluent as I want to be based on how much time and effort I put into my Chinese classes. I’m very impressed by the Chinese program here and by 老师’s teaching, and I know that I can succeed if I put my mind to it.

That being said, learning Chinese has not been without its challenges. I agree with Julia in that one of the biggest challenges is mastering the different tones. I often find myself confusing them or even pronouncing a word the wrong even when I know which tone it is. I think that this is just something that will improve with more speaking practice. Another weakness in my Chinese learning that I have discovered and am in the process of working on is that I tend to work really hard during the week and then don’t work as much on the weekends leading to me forgetting some of the characters. In order to address this I need to continue practicing my characters even on the weekends. I have found that writing the characters over and over while saying the word aloud helps me memorize them

So far, Chinese has been an interesting journey that has not been without its trials, but has helped me grow as a learner here at UVA, and for that I am thankful.

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I agree with Julia when she says that Chinese 1010 has been both challenging and rewarding! I took a small amount of Chinese in high school, but not enough to feel particularly confident. In fact, we took two years to get through the book that we are currently breezing through. I have a little bit of a background, but I am still finding Chinese to be a lot of work.

I think my pronunciation is my most difficult challenge to overcome. I know that sometimes I am messing up some tones, and sometimes I find myself less willing to speak in class, because I am worried that I will sound wrong! I think for the second half of the semester, I just want to focus on trying- our class is such a great place to make mistakes, and I think that in order to learn best, I need to just go for it, be corrected by 老师，and move on! Also, a few of us have been chatting about Chinese before class lately. It really helps me to talk to other people and hear them pronounce the words and tones, allowing them to correct mine! I also think this helps me feel more prepared for the tingxie.

I think that I need to review my vocabulary a little bit more regularly as well. This lesson, as we move away from being tested daily on the vocab, I think I have a few holes in my knowledge that I need to address, with a few activity words going unmemorized. I'm planning on reviewing my flashcards quite a bit over break, just to keep up with what we have been learning.

Chinese is hard, but I think it's a really exciting language to learn. I'm hopeful that one day I will be able to speak fluently, and I'm very excited by that prospect. My oldest brother is fluent in Chinese from his college experience, and I think it would be amazing to some day be able to keep up with him!

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Chinese 1010 has been challenging for me yet thoroughly rewarding. I think I am coming into the class with an interesting perspective: not only am I half Chinese, but I have heard Chinese been spoken around me for my entire life and I've taken a few years of it in high school. Given my background, I definitely have a slight leg-up in the class. This leg-up, however, by no means means that I am coasting by the class; in fact, I find myself improving, struggling, and learning constantly.

I think tones have always been something that I've struggled with (my grandparents laugh at me sometimes when I mix the tones up and end up saying something I really did not intend to), namely mixing up tones for certain words. With 老师's help, though, I'm having a much better time grasping and remembering the tones. For me, what helps me the most is repetition. I make sure I understand the characters in the dialogue and then I drill myself with each character's pinyin, deliberately exaggerating each tone so that it sticks in my head. I still get mixed up with the tones sometimes when I try to speak at a faster pace, and I know that when I do that, it means that I need to spend extra time reviewing those tones so that it becomes ingrained into my speaking.

Finally, learning Chinese is perhaps one of the most rewarding aspects of my academic life here at UVa. As mentioned previously, I am half Chinese, and my Chinese grandparents live with me and have done so for my entire life. Their English, however, is not highly conversational and nor is my Chinese, making our communication sometimes very limited. For me, learning Chinese is not just a helpful skill to have entering the work force; rather, it is a portal into my culture, an entrance into a part of me that I am proud of but have left largely untapped.

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A sample reflection from a former student (now has finished CHIN4020. It doesn't need to be as long. What's important is to make it meaningful.)

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A sample reflection from a former student (now has finished CHIN4020. It doesn't need to be as long. What's important is to make it meaningful.)

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I always thought I would enjoy learning another language because I adore Spanish so much, and I am glad to see that I was right. Though Chinese definitely has the biggest workload of all my classes, I honestly enjoy practicing writing out the dictations and matching up radicals to figure out how to remember new characters. Just as Shannon said, it's hard to pull myself away from Chinese to do my other homework because I just know how much there is still to learn and how fantastic it will be to have a real conversation in Chinese where it doesn't take me thirty seconds to introduce myself!
At the beginning of every new lesson, I make a flashcard for each new vocabulary word, with the character on the front and the pinyin and English meaning on the back. I then go through the flashcards along with the textbook reading of them and practice repeating the words back until I can guess the words before the dialogue says them. I then practice reading the lesson textbook dialogue along with the dialogue recording to further practice recognition. I think I am going to start using 朴美爱的 technique of also writing out the dialogue to practice forming sentences of good structure because I still struggle with that quite a bit. Because of this, I have memorized both of my presentations so far ahead of time, but that's pretty difficult, and I need to figure out a way to practice communicating my thoughts on the spot.

I also am still struggling with pronouncing tones, but I think that is mostly due to how slowly I speak. When I speak more quickly, my tones come out a lot more fluidly, so I think I just need to practice speaking on my own more. Lastly, to help with tones, I just downloaded the textbook CDs onto my phone, just as 欧揎灵 has suggested in class a few times, and I plan to listen to them on my way to class/while I do my homework just to familiarize myself with the correct pronunciation of Chinese speech. My goal for this week is to understand sentence structure enough to improvise parts of my presentation.

Chinese is a hard language to break down into parts, with pinyin and radicals and tones and characters, but the fact that we can all give a short presentation after only a couple of weeks really speaks to 老师's teaching method and our hard work. I can't wait to learn more! 大家加油jia1you！

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Time flies! You've come a long way since you started CHIN1010 back in January. It's time to pause and reflect on this journey of learning Chinese here at UVA／弗大。你觉得学中文有意思吗？What has been particularly enjoyable and challenging for you? Have you found out your strengths and weaknesses and what are your plans to address those weak links? Have you found the study method/strategy that works the best for you? Would you mind sharing with 大家 what has been especially helpful for you? Is there anything you would like to let 老师 know so that we can help you better?

These questions are there to give you some idea what you can reflect on. Feel free to go beyond these questions and reflect on whatever stands out for you. Meaningful reflection helps you be more aware of your learning process and helps you discover more of yourselves in general. I hope you find this process both meaningful for yourself and helpful for all of us as a learning community.

Unless you are the first one to post your reflection, I would like you to read over 你的同学的 reflections and relate to something they have mentioned.

Please complete this assignment by due 2月28日，星期三，晚上10点。

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你好！我家有四口人。 我粑粑， 

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你好！
我家有四口人。 我粑粑， 我妈妈， 我哥哥 和我。我粑粑是商人，我妈妈是老师， 我哥哥和我是大学生。
我的朋友叫J张磊。我们都打乒乓球.他也是大学生。这是我的中国朋友的家。他家也有四口人. 他爸爸，他妈妈，他姐姐，和他。我们爸爸都是商人，他妈妈是老师, 他姐姐和他都是大学生。

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大家好！我叫包雨果和我的中国朋友叫程越！她的英文名字是Elaine Chenge。 她家有三口人。 她的爸爸，她的妈妈，和她。 她的爸爸是香港人。他 也是商人她的。他的妈妈是四川人。 她也是家庭主妇。我的朋友也是大学生。她的爸爸和妈妈都没有上过大学。

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大家好！这张是我的中国朋友的假的照片。他叫张天钰。他是大学生。他想学statistics和music。 我们都想学music。

他家有三口人，他爸爸，妈妈，和他。她的爸爸是商人。她的妈妈是accountant。她的爸爸和妈妈都不是老师。

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大家好！这是我的中国朋友。她姓仲。她叫玥霖。她 家有三口人。她爸爸，她妈妈，和她。她也有一只猫。她没有弟弟，她没有妹妹。她爸爸叫仲俊喜。她妈妈叫蓝瑛。她爸爸是商人。她妈妈也是商人。她爸爸妈妈都是中国人。她爸爸妈妈都是上海人。

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大家好！

我家庭有四口人。我爸爸，我妈妈，我弟弟和我。我们都是里士满人。我妈妈是中国人。我爸爸是泰国人。我弟弟和我都是中国人。我们也都是泰国人。我爸爸和妈妈都是医生。我弟弟是高中学生。我不是高中学生。我是大学生。

这个照片是孟雪梨的家庭。她的家也有四口人。她爸爸，她妈妈，她弟弟，和她。他们是Crozet人 （Crozet在弗吉尼亚）。他们也是中国人。雪梨的爸爸和妈妈都是工程师。她的弟弟是高中学生。雪梨是大学生。

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这是我的中国朋友的家。我的朋友叫曾梧欣。他也是大学生。他家有四口人：他爸爸，他妈妈，他弟弟，和他。他爸爸是厨师，他妈妈是服务员。我们都没有哥哥，我们都有一个弟弟。我弟弟和我的朋友的弟弟都是中学生。他们都是福州人。

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你好!我姓金。我家有五口人:我爸爸、我妈

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你好!我姓金。我家有五口人:我爸爸、我妈妈、我弟弟、我妹妹、和我。我爸爸是教父。我妈妈是商人。我弟弟是中学生。我妹妹是小学生。我的朋友姓林。他没有家照片。我的朋友家有六口人:她爸爸、她妈妈、两个姐姐、一个弟弟、和她。她爸爸是厨师。她妈妈也是厨师。她大姐没有工作。她二姐是大学生。他弟弟是小学生。

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你好！ 我家有五口人！我爸爸，我妈妈，我哥哥，我弟弟，和我。我爸爸是商人。我妈妈是老师。我哥哥是大学生。我哥哥和我都是大学生。 我弟弟是中学生。这是我的中国朋友的家人。她家有四口人。 她爸爸，她妈妈，她妹妹，和她。她爸爸是医生。她妈妈是商人。她妹妹是生。我的朋友和我都是学生！

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大家好！我姓van den Nieuwenhuizen。我家有五口人。我爸爸，我妈妈，一个妹妹，一个弟弟，和我。我们都是美国人。我爸爸是工程师。我妈妈是家庭主妇，可是她是了建筑师。我妹妹和哥哥都是中学生。我的中国朋友姓李。他叫李卓然。他家有四口人。他爸爸，他妈妈，一个姐姐，和他。他爸爸是医生。他妈妈也是家庭主妇。他姐姐姐和他都是大学生。他家都是中国人。

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大家好！ 我家有二口人。我妈妈和我。我妈妈是店员。我是大学生。我妈妈是香港人。他和我都是中文。我是美国人。我中国朋友家有三口人。他爸爸，他妈妈和他。他爸爸叫陆家明。他妈妈叫简敏仪。他爸爸，妈妈和他都也是中文。他爸爸和妈妈都是越南人。他是美国人。他爸爸工作同电脑。他妈妈是图书管理员。

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大家好！我家有六口人：我爸爸，我妈妈，两个哥哥，一个姐姐，和我。我爸爸是商人。我妈妈是家庭主妇。我大哥是电工。我姐姐是警官。我是大学生。我二哥也是大学生。这是我的中国朋友的照片。她家有三口人：她爸爸，她妈妈，和她。她爸爸和她妈妈都是工厂员工。谢谢。

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大家好.  我家有五口人, 我先生, 我大儿子,  我小儿子, 我女儿 和我.  我先生和我大儿子都是律师, 我小儿子在一家健身房工作.  我女儿是学生.  这是我的中国朋友. 他叫 熊 jia4.     她的家 有三口人, 她的爸爸, 她的妈妈和他.   我的朋友是中文老师.  她的爸爸是书法老师,      她的妈妈 家庭主妇

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大家好！这是我家。我家有四口人。我爸爸，我妈妈，我妹妹，和我。我爸爸和妈妈都工作。我爸爸是科学家，我妈妈是会计和家庭主妇。我妹妹始终学生。这是江原知佳的家。她家有三口人，她的爸爸，她的妈妈，和她。她的爸爸和妈妈不都工作。她的爸爸是商人，她的妈妈是家庭主妇。谢谢。

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大家好！我家有四口人：我爸爸，我妈妈，一个妹妹，和我。我妹妹十六岁。她是中学生。我妈妈是会计和。我爸爸是商人。虽然我家有四口人，可是我觉得我婆婆和公公是我的家人因为他们住在我的家。我婆婆是我的家人也是我的中国朋友。她家有十三人：他爸爸，他妈妈，四个弟弟，六个妹妹，和她。她是第一个孩子。他们都是中国人。他们也都是上海人。我婆婆的爸爸是商人，她的妈妈是家庭主妇。我婆婆是钢琴老师。她也是我的钢琴老师。

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大家好！我姓白。我叫安可白。 我是学生。我不是中国人， 我是俄罗斯人。 这是我的中国朋友。他姓张。他叫张磊. 他是一名商人和一名伟大的乒乓球运动员. 谢谢。再见。

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大家好！ 我姓彭。我叫美娜。这是我的朋友。她姓仲。她叫玥霖。她不是美国人，她是中国人。我不是中国人，我是美国人。她是上海人，她不是北京人。我不是上海人，我是弗吉尼亚人。她不是老师，她是大学生。我也不是老师，我也是大学生。

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大家好！ 我姓彭。我叫美娜。这是我的朋友。她姓仲。她叫玥霖。她不是美国人，她是中国人。我不是中国人，我是美国人。她是上海人，她不是北京人。我不是上海人，我是弗吉尼亚人。她不是老师，她是大学生。我也不是老师，我也是大学生。

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大家好！我姓狼。我叫狼独。我是美国人。我是学生。我的中国朋友姓李。她叫李含章。 她是中国人。她是北京人。她是学生。她是爱学德语。

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你好！我姓李。我叫李思佳。我是美国人。我也是宾夕法尼亚人。她是我的中国朋友。她姓史。她叫史洁茹。她是中国人。她是南京人。她也是加拿大人。她是学生，我也是学生。

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大家好！
我姓包
我叫雨果
我是美国人
我是中文学生
我爱学中文 :D
我的老师姓黄
他是中国人
黄老师很好

我的中国朋友姓于
她叫心意
她是中国人
他是学生
他爱学Psychology

谢谢！！！！

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大家好！我姓王。我叫王华泰。我是中国人。我也是泰国人。我不是北京人。我是大学生。这是我的中国朋友。她姓孟。她叫孟雪莉。她是中国人。她也不是北京人。她也是大学生。

谢谢。再见。

泰国：tai4guo2, Thailand

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大家好！我姓金，叫金俊武。我是大学生。我

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大家好！我姓金，叫金俊武。我是大学生。我的中国朋友姓林（lin2）。她叫林霞（lin2xia2）。她不是中国人。她是美国人。她是纽约人。她也是学生。她爱学psychology。

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大家好！我姓沙。 我叫沙瑞恩。这是我的中国朋友姓廖。他叫廖王勇，他也叫”篝火一二三四五六.” 我是美国人。我也是弗吉尼亚人。廖王勇不是美国人，他是中国人。他也是上海人。廖王勇是中学生。我不是中学生， 我是大学生。廖王勇爱学英语。我爱学中文。廖王勇是我的好朋友!

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大家好！我姓金。我叫金进义。我是大学生。我是美国人。我也是韩国人。这是我的中国朋友。她姓史。她叫史赛琼。 她是中国人， 她不是北京人。她也是大学生。谢谢，再见。

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大家好！我姓崔。我叫崔钟仁。这是我的中国朋友。他姓宋。他叫宋伯桐。他是中国人。他不是美国人。我也不是美国人。我是韩国人。他不是老师。他是大学生。我也不是老师。我也是大学生。

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大家好！我姓蒋。我叫蒋曼莎。我是美国人。我是弗吉尼亚人。我是学生。我的中国朋友姓陆。他叫陆霆匡。他是美国人。他是弗吉尼亚人。他是学生。

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大家好! 我叫 Brandon. 我的中文名字是金安城. 我不是中国人. 我是美国大学生. 这是我的朋友. 她叫 Edith. 她姓张. 她也是大学生. 她不是美国人, 她是中国人. 谢谢.

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大家好！我姓俞。我叫俞受延。我不是中国人。我是美国人，我也是韩国人。她是我的中国朋友。她姓江原。她叫江原知佳。她是中国人，她也是北京人。她的妈妈是中国人，她的爸爸是日本人。她是在UVA的国际学生，我也是UVA的学生。

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大家好。我姓万。我叫万励凯。我不是中国人，我是美国人。我不是老师，是大学生。我的中国朋友姓李。他叫李卓然。他也不是老师，也是学生。

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 大家好. 我姓康. 我叫佩玲

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大家好. 我姓康. 我叫佩玲.   我是弗吉尼亚人  这是我的朋友  他姓熊. 他叫熊佳  他也是我的中文的老师，t他是z中国r人  t他也是深圳人

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大家好！我姓戴。我叫戴梦琪 。我是美国人。我是FLORIDA人。我不是纽约人。我是学生。这是我的朋友。他姓张 。他叫张馨月 。她不是美国人，她是中国人。她是香港人。 她不是老师，她也是学生。我们一起住宿舍！

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Objective:
The final oral presentation is to produce a creative work that consolidates/showcases what you have learned in CHIN1010.

What you need to do:
You need to create a 3-minute movie showcasing what you have learned and what you are able to express in Chinese now. You have the following options in terms of the theme of your movie:

1. Your relationship with your Chinese friend: the differences, the commonness, sweet moments, frustrations, fun activities, etc. Reason to choose this option is that you have already built up the content and even images you need for putting together this movie. What you need now is being selective and creative and present your relationship in a new light (instead of entirely repeating what you already have in your posts.
2. A self-portray. Present yourself as a college student, a big brother/sister, a child, a future teacher/doctor, etc.) Again, be creative and make it fun.
3. A favorite person (a fictional character or a real person).
4. An imaginary character you created yourself.

Resources:

1. Class time will be allocated to show how to put images together to create a movie.
2. Web links to windows and Mac movie maker/iMovie tutorials are at collab.

Grading criteria:

1. Substantial and interesting content (50%)
2. A wide range of vocabulary and grammar (L1-9) accurately used (45%)
3. Production aspects of the video including clarity of voice and adequate visual aids (5%)

Other options:

1. Live PowerPoint Presentation (will be recorded)

If putting together a movie is too much of a challenge for you technically, you have the option of giving a Powerpoint presentation. Your presentation will be recorded because you will need to include this final oral presentation into your CHIN1010 Course Portfolio.

2. Producing an audio book with your own voice as audio, your writing as the text, and images as illustrations.

THU | 4/26 ：多一天 准备小电影

FRI | 4/27 ：梦琪; 思佳; 丽雅; 励凯；
MON | 4/30 ：华泰; 美娜；雨果； 曼莎；安可；受延
TUE | 5/1：安诚；钟仁；进义；俊武；瑞恩；佩玲
wrapping up the course and course evaluation

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大家好！我叫 Julia，但是我的中文名字是潘丽呀。 我是美国人。我是大学生。我在弗吉尼亚大学学中文。虽然这是我的外婆，可是她也是我的最喜欢的朋友。她叫
云芬。她姓曹。她是上海人。我们一起很喜欢吃饭喝星巴克的咖啡。我在家的时候我跟她去星巴克喝咖啡。我们觉得上海菜比北京菜好吃（小笼包😍  ）。我现在只要吃我的外婆做的饭。我爱我的外婆。

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大家好! 我叫 Brandon. 这照片是我的朋友的家庭. 我的朋友的名字是 Jonathan. 他家有四口人: 他爸爸，他妈妈, 一个姐姐, 和他. 他是弗大的学生. 他的专业是工程. 他想做商人. 那是他的爸爸. 他是马来西亚人. 他是商人. 那是他的妈妈. 她是台湾人.

她是工程师. 那是他的姐姐. 她是美国人. 她也是商人. 他没有兄弟. 谢谢.

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大家好！我姓黄。我叫黄兴国。我不是美国人。我是中国人。我不是北京人。这(zhe4, this)是我的(wo3de, my)朋友。他姓宋(song4)。他叫宋洋（song4yang2）。他不是美国人，他也是中国人。他不是大学生，他也不是中学生。他是老师，我也是老师。