I once studied spoken English with an American teacher, and he asked me to prepare a topic every time.

In class, I first talk about the topics I have prepared.

Then, start the discussion with this topic.

So I often introduce some things with Chinese characteristics.

Chinese festivals: Chinese festivals are generally closely related to eating, so I prepared the topic of Chinese festivals.

Introducing what to eat on which festivals.

For example, we eat moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, dumplings during the Spring Festival, etc.

On the one hand, it introduces China's unique festivals and some of China's special delicacies.

Chinese characters: I once specifically taught Chinese characters to my teacher.

China's 5,000-year history of civilization can continue to this day only because of Chinese characters.

Because China has many dialects, many of which are almost unintelligible to Chinese people.

But everyone uses the same words, so that government orders can be transmitted better and the country's rule can be better maintained.

Chinese characters are still one of the few ideographic characters in the world, and they are very efficient characters.

For example, silicosis in English is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with more than 40 letters.

The average American doesn't know it.

In Chinese, only three words are needed for "silicosis".

Even people who don't know about this disease can roughly understand what this disease is when they see these three words.

BYD New Energy Vehicles: As a ‘BYD fan’, of course I want to introduce some of BYD’s new energy vehicles.

I introduced to the teacher that BYD’s new energy vehicle can accelerate from 0 to 100 mph in 4.9 seconds.

Can be mixed with oil and electricity.

Most importantly, it's cheap.

Many times cheaper than Tesla.

Let the teacher express his feelings about China’s black technology.

But the teacher said that he is a little worried about hybrid cars, and he prefers pure electric cars.

Chinese food: Food must be introduced, but I don’t have a deep understanding of it. It’s all information from Baidu.

For example, Anhui cuisine emphasizes the sauce aroma, Hunan cuisine emphasizes the spicy aroma, Shanghai cuisine is sweeter, etc.

In fact, I haven’t tasted it either, I’m just following the script.

But the teacher is very interested. His favorite is hot pot.

Complaints from foreigners: I once read a foreigner’s experience of living in China online.

There were some complaints, and I wanted to use this topic to explain these phenomena to the teacher.

For example, foreigners can't stand squatting in China, so I explain how squatting is hygienic and convenient, except that squatting is a bit tiring.

There are really no downsides.

There are also Chinese people who like to take photos with foreigners. I said that is because we Chinese show our enthusiasm and so on.

What is more interesting is that once, I wanted the teacher to explain the ten principles of mystery novels.

I gave Baidu English’s original version of the Ten Principles of Reasoning to the teacher.

The teacher didn't understand.

Later, I showed him the original text, and he seemed to understand it.

I wonder if English also has classical Chinese. The Ten Principles of Reasoning from Conan Doyle’s era are incomprehensible even to modern Americans.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Chinese culture, I just think it’s interesting, so I’ll talk about it.