leosmith wrote:Does anyone have any specific topic they want to see for Mandarin? And for that matter, any of the other languages we have in work? (no politics/sex/religion or corona though, haha )
- Funny stories from one's own childhood or a family member's childhood (My grandpa dropped out of college but he didn't want to admit it so he lived on a tent on campus for the rest of the semester...)
- Typical mistakes that foreigners make in the language, perceptions of one's own language difficulty compared to other languages, perceptions of what kind of foreigners learn it and why some are successful and others not
- Descriptions of one's living space or the places they go regularly
- How people's personal taste in media has changed over time and how it compares to broader trends (I used to listen to movie soundtracks but now ...)
- How music, movies, books in general have changed over time
- Anecdotes about the first time they used the Internet / mobile phones and how the technology has changed
- Comparing the general layouts and overall features of two cities (hometown vs university town, capital city vs other metropolis...)
- Habits they want to develop and why (I wish I could stop myself from sleeping through my alarm in the morning...)
- What it means to be "educated"
- Describe a time when someone else made a mistake and they had to fix it