By Huang Minting

It was a rainy day on March 9th . Our English corner was held in the library lobby on time. Three foreign teachers attended today’s English Corner. They were Dr. Phillip Stevenson, Mr. Christopher Dockstader and Mr. Robert Mateja.

Phillip talked about himself at the beginning and then he shared his experience of different cultures between Japan and China. In communication, the Japanese just talked about weather with others while not mentioning anything about their emotions. What was more, Japanese people had strong accents in speaking English, because they used their own pronunciation methods. As a result, even for people like Phillip, who took College Japanese courses before must listen attentively when communicating with the Japanese.

In China, people were curious about the foreigners, so they were willing to talk with them. But in London, people regarded it as a common phenomenon for meeting different ethnic groups in the streets. Even you are an Asian, they would treat you in the same way. The academic institutions in the UK and China were very different. In the UK, students had their freedom including having classes or not and whether to live in the dorms .

Time flies and the English corner came to an end in the rain soon.