Monday? ? As the organizer, we held a networking event for foreigners in a five-star hotel.
On Tuesday (jiaozi), I went to a restaurant with my American friend John and his family. After dinner, go to his house to continue chatting.
On Wednesday, I will attend the birthday family gathering of my German friend Ann.
On Thursday, I had coffee with my Australian friend Tania to discuss cooperation projects.
Friday finally rested! (Let Sister slow down and recover)
I met French chef Ornato on Saturday and made an appointment to meet the next day.
Have coffee with French chef Ornato on Sunday, visit his office and studio, and talk about his work as executive chef and his favorite Chinese food.
Please don't say I'm showing off my circle of friends. Foreign friends are ordinary people. But such a circle is perfect for learning spoken English. This is how I became the "walking chicken soup" in the oral English field in the eyes of my friends!
Someone asked me, what is your starting point? Recite words or chat with foreigners directly.
I said, talk to foreigners directly. Those English words after graduating from high school are enough for you to chat with foreigners!
Others asked, is it necessary to enter the circle of foreigners?
If you want to have fluent spoken English, yes, you must! Have foreign friends! Attention, didn't I tell you to stay at a low level of repetition when chatting with foreigners? What's your name? Level, but I suggest you become a friend of foreigners!
We'll talk later. Let's start with the first step you must take.
Contact with foreigners is the first step to successfully enter their social circle. What is contact? It means that some people, although not friends, have met several times and chatted for several days.
Today, let's talk about n ways to easily handle foreigners' contacts. I don't think you need my sister to tell you how important it is to dare to express yourself and how precious it is to dare to speak. Just say dry goods. I have always taken a technical route that favors pragmatism, and it is useless to ignore it. Let's begin.
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Go to places frequented by foreigners.
If you want to hunt, of course you have to go to the forest. Bars are the easiest "forest" to find.
The big uncle and the second uncle are his uncles. Bars and western food bars are all bars. Foreigners are used to going to bars for a drink and sitting for a while. Especially when they come to a strange country, Bar not only provides familiar western food, red wine and cocktails, but also provides table tennis, foreign sports programs and other activities. Bar is one of the best choices for foreigners to exchange life information, make friends with the same culture and kill time in China. This is the same as going to Chinatown when we are abroad.
Find a bar with a good reputation, or a bar with the same hobby as you. You need to do your homework. Go in and have a look at it at eight or nine in the evening.
Choose one or two and become a regular customer. Being a frequent visitor has two unexpected effects: first, you may get the attention of other frequent visitors (including foreigners, of course) and get familiar with them; Second, the staff will chat with you enthusiastically and introduce you to other regular customers in minutes. When they nod to you, take the initiative to say hello, introduce yourself, talk about the ongoing football match or any topic you are interested in, such as life, travel, transportation and so on.
If we can exchange WeChat, a foreigner will contact successfully.
I know it takes courage. Boys are highly recommended! After all, girls are inconvenient, you know. A male classmate did just that and recommended this method to me.
This method is "simple and rude", but I still recommend it as the first method for two reasons: First, it is easy to achieve, because no matter where you are, the lever is there; Second, take the initiative to say hello, which will be a necessary skill for you to improve your spoken English.
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Become a member of international social organizations.
With the improvement of China's national strength, more and more foreigners come to work and live in China. They not only go to large and medium-sized cities, but also go deeper and deeper into small and medium-sized cities. For example, many of my foreign friends went to Jinan, Hefei, Handan and so on.
Because of the language barrier and the relative lack of English life service and logo matching, the life of foreigners in China is very inconvenient, and some foreigners can't even take a taxi independently. The international diaspora community came into being.
These social platforms are dedicated to people living abroad, with active members from all over the world and a common language of English. The activities of social platforms or organizations are both online and offline. Online activities are basically forums and information release, while offline activities are regularly organized by special personnel. We share practical life information, make new friends, re-establish our own life circle in a new strange city, and make life abroad easy and full.
At the same time, this social platform also welcomes local people in China, because these members can provide very comprehensive and real practical information about local life for other foreign members.
The advantage of becoming a member of an international social organization is that you no longer need to bother to find foreigners. There they are! At the party, most members don't know each other. Everyone is here to meet new friends. You can greet and chat with anyone easily. You have entered the circle of foreigners!
Search for foreigners (meaning expatriates) on the Internet, find such social organizations in your city and surrounding areas, and join decisively!
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Recommend a good and well-known international social platform InterNations. Headquartered in Germany, it has 390 urban communities around the world. In China, it has set up branches and activities in seven cities, including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Tianjin.
Tell me about my own real experience! My rapid progress in spoken English is largely due to international communication. Successfully entered the communication circle of foreigners, and it was the first!
In the second year after I became a member, the former Tianjin ambassador (person in charge) left, and the headquarters released information to recruit new people to take over. I wrote the application with trepidation, but I didn't expect to receive the interview notice a few days later. The interview conducted by Skype is of course in English. The interview is simple and the language requirements are not high. The main purpose is to examine the applicant's motivation and whether he has enough time and motivation to finish the work regularly.
City ambassadors should be responsible for the overall organization and management of online discussions and offline gatherings in their cities. But this is a volunteer's job, and there is no reward! In order to penetrate the foreigners, I endured and accepted! I spent a lot of energy and time to finish the required work.
For example, organizing a meeting every month, I need to check the venue in advance and choose the most suitable one to coordinate and arrange. For example, in order to let more people participate in the activities, I need to know as many members as possible, establish good contacts and help them live in Tianjin. For example, I am the first to leave every activity, and I have to solve all the problems in the activity.
Hard work is hard work, but I have met many foreigners and have a deep understanding of what foreigners think and love. The level of spoken English has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the vocabulary has increased several times. In just over a year, the overall English level has improved qualitatively. What a sense of accomplishment
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Now, I receive invitations from hotels, chambers of commerce, gatherings of foreign friends and other formal and informal activities every week. If I have time, I will go.
In this way, I successfully entered the social circle of foreigners in Tianjin.
However, I should remind you that this social organization also has a disadvantage: its members are mostly business people, so students may not be suitable, unless, of course, you start a business or have interesting research in a certain field.