here chinese teacher

no no no!
i am a good student and teacher! i am not in hangzhou.
i am in beijing. i teach chinese, i am a chinese teacher.

Golf clubs in UK encouraged to learn Mandarin Chinese
Staff at golf clubs around the UK are being instructed to learn Mandarin Chinese to encourage more golfers from the Far East to join, as they may provide an upswing for clubs scratching around for recruits in the economic downturn.

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/868197-coming-to-a-golf-course-nea...
Linguistics tutor Paul Noble, 30, will be spreading the message to caddies and clubhouse officials at Leaderboard Golf courses across southern England.

Key phrases include ‘Da de hao’, for ‘Excellent shot, sir’, and ‘Nin lang wo xiang qi nianqin de Jack Nicklaus’, meaning ‘You remind me of a young rather famous golfer’.

Slightly more technical offerings will also be learned, such as ‘Yong jiutie hui bu hiu bijiao shihe ne?’ which suggests a nine-iron might be more appropriate.

VisitBritain believes that by 2014, trips will almost double from China, where enthusiasm for golf has seen a huge surge.

Leaderboard Golf chairman Paul Gibbons said: ‘In a tough economic climate, we felt it logical to reach out to this new tourist group.’

Learn it at a stroke... our caddies' guide to Mandarin

Please let me take your bags, sir – Xiansheng, qing lang wo bang nin na xinli ba.

What’s your handicap? – Qing wen nin de pingjun meichang ganshu shi duo shao?

Fore! – Duo kai!

I’m sorry, sir, I have absolutely no idea where your ball went – Xiansheng baoqian, wo zhende bu zhidao nin de qou pao na qu le.

I’m sure you’ll do better next time, sir – Wo xiangxin xia ci yiding hui bijiao hao.

Where did you get those trousers? – Ni zia nar mai na jian kuzi de?

Excellent shot, sir! You da man! – Da de hao! Tai ban le!

You remind me of a young Jack Nicklaus, sir – Nin lang wo xiang qi nianqin de Jack Nicklaus

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/868197-coming-to-a-golf-course-nea...

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Students in Wales to Learn Chinese Soon
Vinti Vaid
Monday, June 6, 2011

In the past several years and in the run up to the start of the new academic year, there has been a lot of activity happening at English schools in China. Oxford and most of the leading British universities today have a presence in China, and almost one in twenty children is preparing for the Scholarship Aptitude Test (SAT) exams to enter the hallowed portals of British education in England or back home in Chinese campuses of these schools and colleges.

In the hallowed precincts of a true Welsh college, the presence of the Chinese language school is truly a measure of how things have progressed in the past decade and a half. This will set the precedent for the future as foreign language courses will soon become integral courses in the growing global environments. When most things from business transactions to critical surgeries are happening in real time, regardless of the separating geographic time lines, the global community is the future and it is for the student community to be better equipped to be able to handle the pressures of the changing world order.

There is today an established dialogue on the need for collaborative education if the trend of students moving between the two countries is likely to grow. Experts believe there is going to be an exponential growth in the number of Chinese students coming to pursue high secondary and higher education. The need for Chinese speakers and tutors who can understand and address the sensibilities of overseas students is of course a necessity and the community along with the government is offering various avenues for the teaching, as well as student communities to gain further insight into the Chinese language and the culture.

The first week of March saw the beginning of one of the most interesting events happening at Llandovery College. On St. David’s Day, March 1st, the Prince of Wales inaugurated the new Confucius Classroom dedicated to aspiring to learn the Chinese language. The premises will be open to the local community as well and have come into existence through the efforts of the Confucius Institute at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

Over the past three years pupils at the college have been coached in Mandarin with ample support from teachers from China as part of the joint venture with the British Council. The new classroom will be a special environment for Confucian studies, offering greater insight into China’s ancient cultural practices, literary works, etc.

The goal of this venture, as per Warden Mr. Ina Hunt, is that the students are to be well equipped to handle the issues of global environment. The junior school pupils as well as adults will be offered the services for learning one of the oldest languages in the world. As part of the inaugural program, several Chinese cultural activities were held. The color and the sheer magnitude of its diverse culture is not only fascinating but awe inspiring too.
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So yankee doodle dandy got it wrong again.

Plenty of Chinese teaching jobs abroad now so go for it, Chinese will me the no1 language in the next 10years.

Is there a way howU to go aboard to teach?

And if yes, there are families and as being a Chinese we grow up in different way, care about our parents, Chinese culture are very deep, the way we show our care may be hand a warm water, wash moms feet, or just be around them.

China got money, ppl all come to Beijing, here we can meet a lot of ppl.

It could be a good challenge if one got chance to go aboard, knows nobody, face the new culture and it will rewarding when u got job, friends, families in a new city.

Frist of all, "laowai" is not means insulting foreigners anymore if you really know chinese culture.By the way, we all know there are so many chinese people all around the world, one day there are chinese people alive, China is in the world, chinese will not disappear. Welcome to the real China.

Haha... Because second of all was killed by a funny person who do not really understand chinese history. Anyway, it would be hard for you to survive in your 'died' China. Pls do not continue your FORTH OF ALL... people would get boring to talk with a people without culture. Bye~~~

this seems to be a very difficult thing for chinese people to understand.
that, or they simply enjoy insulting but lack the courage to admit they mean to be racist.

idiotic.

Im British, and I don't find the term 'Laowai' insulting.
Might I suggest people ignore Zhenlai, he is a Yankie(the correct term for american) pioneer, out to 'civilize' the rest of the world. A bit like Carrie Nations or American Peace Corps goofs that go around the world 'helping' people.
Or if you must, humour him. He is easily offended. It never occurs to him though, that his constant patronizing might come across as offensive.
As Willow_Willow pointed out, if the real China died in 1949, why is Zhenlai living in a dead country? Propagating an offensive warped version of English? Making lots of money out of 'offensive' Chinese people.

Oh yea, of course. He is a kind hearted person that just wants to help people. Right. By teaching them American.

Yeah, right.

On behalf of the people of the world, from the bottom of my heart

Don't worry willow, English isn't zhenlai the yankies strong suit either.
He can't speak English. He speaks a warped version of English, and has the cheek to correct other peoplz mistaks

'Chinese is not complex enough, and not expressive enough...'
Ha ha ha ha

Guess there can't be any such thing as wonderful Chinese literature or music then.

If you say so.

FYI,there is no need for your fellow country people to migrate and teach chinese as the global demand is nowhere near as frantic as it is here in China for speaking English.
There are sufficient students graduating from foreign universities each year to facilitate foreign businesses to purely employ a native speaker i.e someone who is Chinese, in order to boost their service offering and increase their market share.
As far as being called a 'laowai' I work with over 4000 chinese people and I don't really care what they call me,you should hear some of the things I call them because they can't understand me :>