I must start off by saying that Kirin greatly impressed me with her teaching skills.我必须先说麒麟印象深刻，我与她的教学技巧。 If there is one quality that a teacher must have above all else, it is patience.如果说有一个优质的教师，必须有看得高于一切，这是要有耐心。 And Kirin was very patient with me as I started to speak Chinese once more after the gap of some months.和麒麟是非常有耐性地跟我正如我开始时，以中文发言，再一次之后，差距约二个月。 I am sure you can tell by listening to the Skype audio chats, that my speaking skills definitely started out pretty badly in the first lesson but were improved ten-fold by the end of the last lesson.我相信你也可以告诉听Skype的音频聊天，我的说话技巧，肯定一开始相当严重，在第一课，但提高了10倍，到去年底的最后一课。 More than anything else, this made me very glad and my general confidence level in speaking Mandarin increased a great deal with the few people I know here in Seattle who speak Chinese with me.比任何事情都重要，这使我感到很高兴，我总的信心水准下，在讲国语，增加了大量与几个人，我知道在西雅图的人说中文，我的看法。

First, I believe the key there is simply to have someone to practice with regularly and to have some sort of aim.首先，我认为关键是根本，以有人实践与定期和有某种目的。 Having these 15-minute conversations with Kirin scheduled made me prepare for them by reading the text aloud to myself beforehand again and again until I got it right.鉴于这15分钟的交谈，麒麟定，使我准备为他们所阅读的文本高喊自己事前一次又一次，直到我这样做是正确的。

Secondly, a huge advantage of having these lessons is that I have a critical audience.其次，是一个巨大的优势有这些经验教训是，我有一个关键的观众。 When I am speaking Chinese with someone else, if I say something incorrectly (grammar or tone), he will probably not correct me because it might be considered rude.当我谈到中国同别人，如果我说了一些不正确的（文法或音调）时，他可能不会给我指正，因为这可能会被视为粗鲁。 But, when I speak with Kirin, I know that I will be corrected, and that is the way I prefer it, because there’s no other way for me to learn.但是，当我发言，与日本麒麟公司，我知道我会得到纠正，就是这样，我喜欢它，因为那里的，没有别的出路，为我的学习。

Lastly, I think it is simply fun having someone talk to you from a somewhat distant place, where points of view are a little different and things are done differently and where the language you are learning is the lingua franca.最后，我认为这是纯粹的乐趣有人与你交谈，从一个遥远的地方，那里的角度来看，是有点不同，这样做，不同的地方语言，你是学习是通用语言。 I definitely love meeting new people and making new friends and I’m sure most other people do too.我绝对爱结识新朋友和新朋友，我敢肯定，大多数其他人也这样做。 “ "

In regard to my thoughts on the one-on-one live lessons, I did listen to the sessions and found them very helpful.对于我的想法就一对一活课，我没有听会议，并发现他们有很大的帮助。 Kirin was extremely pleasant and accommodating to work through my pronunciation issues.麒麟是非常愉快的和通融的工作，通过我的发音问题。 As a beginner, I am trying to absorb vocabulary and understand Chinese language speakers in normal speaking pace.作为一个初学者，我想吸收的词汇和理解中文的发言者在正常来说步伐。 I do find myself lacking in pronunciation and other speaking nuances more so after listening to the sessions to the point of embarrassment.我发现自己缺乏读音和其他发言的细微差别，更何况在听取大家的会，以点尴尬。 While listening to my sessions, I distinctly speak Mandarin with an American dialect, which would be taxing on native Mandarin speakers to understand.一边听着我的会议上，我鲜明地讲普通话与一位美国方言，这将是征税，就其本土国语发言者明白。

The first lesson went very well and Miwa is a good teacher.第一个教训是非常好，三和是一个好老师。 I had no problems understanding her and she was very clear with her Chinese and English.我原本并没有问题的理解她，她是很清楚的，与她的中文和英文。 Also, Miwa overall is pleasant to work with and uplifting with her praise!此外，三和整体是愉快的工作，与向上的，与她的赞美！ A good quality which I recognize as important to a student’s learning, whose confidence in speaking Mandarin may be shaky.质量是好的，我认识到，作为重要的一个学生的学习，他们的信心，说汉语可能不稳。

The most valuable part of the lesson for me was creating sentences with words she picked out.最有价值的一部分教训，为我创造了句字，她挑选。 For example she asked me what “xi1 wang4″ meant and then asked me to make a sentence using this.举例来说，她问我什么叫" xi1 wang4 "的意思，然后问我，使服刑利用这一点。 I had to think for a minute because then I had to go over all my vocabulary and think!我曾以为一分钟，因为当时我不得不走我的所有词汇，并想想办法！ This is the hardest part for me because it requires original thinking and knowledge of sentence structures and vocabulary.这是最难的部分，对我来说，因为它需要的原始思维和知识的句子结构和词汇。 Plus, I have learned Mandarin by practicing CLO dialogues, which is good but has a downside to it.再加上，我学到国语练了ClO对话，这是好的，但有一个缺点，以它。 That is, I associate vocabulary with the sentences in the dialogues so much that it is ingrained in my head.这就是，我准词汇与句子在对话那么多，这是根深蒂固的，在我的脑袋。 For example, when I want to say something or someone asks me a question, I think of answering with the dialogue that I learned, ahh!举例来说，当我想说的东西还是有人问我一个问题，我想回答与对话，我了解到，稀释！

The first 10 minutes or so consisted of me reading the dialogue, going over the vocabulary words, reading the dialogue together, and then giving English meaning to vocabulary words.前10分钟左右构成的，我读了对话，过头了词汇，阅读对话在一起，然后让英语含义词汇。 For those who are struggling, especially at “Level I” or so, this would be good for them, as first one must master pronunciations and meanings before moving on to anything else.对于那些在斗争中，特别是在"一级"或如此，这将是对他们有好处，作为第一个必须掌握读音和含义，然后才转谈任何事情都重要。

Miwa gave a good introduction asking my name in Mandarin and reciprocating back.三和进行了良好的导言问我的名字，在国语和往复回。 She acknowledged every line or answer I gave which is good.她承认，每一行或答复，我这是个好。