INTRODUCTION

Now that I’ve almost completed CHIN 102, I can look back and see how much I’ve 
accomplished.  I’ve almost got 200 Chinese characters that I can recall from memory, 
and I can recognize many more.  I am glad that the class was challenging, because 
it pushed us to learn more Chinese.  The class was great and definitely worthwhile.  
Above all, I think Tseng Laoshi is a great teacher.  If I had a choice, I would take 
the remainder of my Chinese with her, even if she only taught at 8:00 in the morning.  
Thank you Tseng Laoshi for making Chinese so much fun to learn.

My Most Excellent Work: 1) Dining  2) Travel  3) Hometown

I really enjoyed Dining, not because of the quality, but because it was the first 
peer dialogue of the semester.  I partnered up with Anjie and got to know her better.  
She’s a great friend now, and we’ve been dialogue partners ever since.  I picked 
Travel because I think it was the best dialogue that Anjie and I came up with.  
Along with incorporating a lot of the new vocabulary, we got to add some humor at 
the end.  My third choice was Hometown.  Nothing fancy, but it came right from the 
heart.  I really do miss the river that runs behind my house.  Since I’ve been to 
college, I haven’t been home very much.  Every summer I get a job away from home, 
so I really do miss it at times.



Self-Introduction:      Image File      NJ Star File      Audio File
Dining:                 Image File      NJ Star File      Audio File
Travel:                 Image File      NJ Star File      Audio File
Hometown:               Image File      NJ Star File      Audio File