Kersten TS #1

On Wednesday, January 18^th, I met with my tutee Liu Xiaoyu at 3:20pm. We met at Dirac library and had a great conversation. Our conversation subject matters ranged anywhere from favorite foods, to how many pets we owned. We started out by introducing ourselves and I went through all the questions on the example sheet given. She is from Anhui province in China and recently moved to the United States in December. She has one sister, which I thought was interesting because of the one child policy in China only allowing families to have one child. She told me that if you pay extra money you’re allowed to have a second child. She has been learning English since she was young, but in China she did not have a chance to practice her spoken English. Chinese is her first language that speaks, and she only speaks Chinese and English. Although her oral speech sometimes has some grammatical errors, overall I think her English is really good. She has a wide range of vocabulary and I know I can help her improve her grammar. At this point we had already been talking for an hour because our conversation was going so well. So we decided to take a little break and start a second session at 4:30.