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in reply to a message by RoxStar
I don't know this specific student really well, but I don't think she's preparing to do business with foreigners or go abroad.
The general thought amongst people who teach Chinese students is to be strict on names if you're preparing them to go, say, on exchange programmes abroad, otherwise, not so much. Many students don't seem to take their English names very seriously, more like nicknames. A student would have picked something really out of line for me to say something, it's a matter of picking your battles I guess.
"We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?”
John LeCarré
The general thought amongst people who teach Chinese students is to be strict on names if you're preparing them to go, say, on exchange programmes abroad, otherwise, not so much. Many students don't seem to take their English names very seriously, more like nicknames. A student would have picked something really out of line for me to say something, it's a matter of picking your battles I guess.
"We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?”
John LeCarré
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