About Me

My Chinese name is Zuo Yanli, and most of my friends and students call my English name Caren. 

        I have been struggling with learning English for the past seven years since my first job in 2000.  I happened to get a job working as an English copy writer for a website. It is a hard but fascinating work. When I worked as a reporter for That's China in 2005, I had once been filled with the indescribable joys and satisfactions, for I could finally make good stories, with my thoughts and views, in another language!

        The process of learning English intrigued me in digging into reading more books on theories of Chinese language and teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language. The work at LINESE.com finally made me retrieve my strongpoints-Chinese Language and Literature.

        I had given formal lessons to foreign students when I was a graduate student, but I hadn't found it was a challenging work at that time. Now, the deeper I immerged myself in this field, the more difficult I think the work is.

        How to be a good foreign language teacher? He or she should master several foreign languages, should bear both a rich imagination and a meticulous thought, and should have the passion in keep learning. I am not a good language teacher, but I am trying to reach it.