I could not recommend taking CHIN 1020 with Guo laoshi enough! She is so patient, positive, understanding, and flexible. She offers office hours everyday and is willing to help her students with assignments or if they just want to practice their Chinese. The class meets 4 times a week, which seems like a lot, but I got used to it. Class is interactive, and she often asks questions or sometimes calls on people to answer. Every other day there was homework due from the Integrated Chinese workbook. It was recommended to handwrite them, but you could type them as well if you didn’t have time. For part of the semester we had daily quizzes that took maybe 5 minutes. We had a few tests that weren’t bad; we took them during class and they covered what we talked about in class. After every lesson we scheduled time to meet with a student from China for 30 minutes-1 hour. At first it was a bit annoying to schedule around the time difference, but it was super helpful to review and practice the lesson material with a native speaker! Instead of a final exam at the end of the semester, we had a project where we created an itinerary for our pen pal from China and made a video presentation about it.

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