[Edwin]

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　　　Steve是一位掌握9種語言的加拿大人，他曾經在亞洲擔任外交官，作為一個熟知如何學習語言的語言家，我們邀請了他來做為新欄目《英語生活》的斑竹，和大家交流英語學習，分享他的加拿大經驗。由於近幾天他去瑞典，我們先張貼steve和大家打的招呼。：）8月23日晚上，我們就能和他網上見面了

[b:8e7ad8f892]
　　Hello everyone. My name is Steve Kaufmann. You may call me Steve. I have gladly accepted Westca's invitation to run a chatroom here at Westca. I have had an association with the Chinese language, culture and its people that goes back to 1967 when I first started studying the language. I have visited China on many occasions over these 35 years, but usually for short periods. I like China,its language, people and culture. In fact I like many languages, cultures and peoples. Getting to know people of different backgrounds is part of fully taking part in the great banquet of life.

　　At this chatroom you are free to talk about whatever you want as long as you use English. I will offer my opinions on many subjects, including one subject close to my heart, how to learn languages effectively. I promise to be direct, controversial and not politically correct. I will be the Don Cherry of the Internet. ( If you do not know who Don Cherry is you should find out if you are going to live in Canada). I will not, however, be impolite, nor make fun of, nor belittle anyone. I hope all participants can follow these rules.

I have many strong views on many subjects but before I start boring you with my views I would like to hear from you. What are the subjects that interest you? Do you have questions about English or about your experience in Canada? Do you have comments or complaints? Tell me about them.

Steve [/b:8e7ad8f892]

[胡不歸]

i saw him before, he is absolutely amazing, if u only listen to his speech without seeing him in person, u would assume he is a native Chinese! welcome onboard, Steve!

[閒雲野鶴]

That's the spirit! Many thanks to the person who initially presented this idea. I look forward to meeting with everybody then.

[胡不歸]

[quote:ddb00ffc45="閒雲野鶴"]That's the spirit! Many thanks to the person who initially presented this idea. I look forward to meeting with everybody then.[/quote:ddb00ffc45]
r u steve then? what a nice chinese id u 've got

[務秋]

Hi, Steve

Nice to meet you. We met in a meeting of 環球. It was so exciting to hear foreigner can speak so good Chinese. I hope my english as good as your chinese one day.

[MARKYAN]

9種語言！！相當厲害啊！請問是哪9種啊？

[walleye]

至少應該會說德語。Steve的姓kaufmann(business man)是德國名字.

[lily]

Welcome, welcome, warmly welcome!

[lily]

[quote:c9c1f3b79a="MARKYAN"]9種語言！！相當厲害啊！請問是哪9種啊？[/quote:c9c1f3b79a]

English, French, Mandarin, Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, Cantonese and Swedish?

[閒雲野鶴]

[quote:62da0ff70f="胡不歸"][quote:62da0ff70f="閒雲野鶴"]That's the spirit! Many thanks to the person who initially presented this idea. I look forward to meeting with everybody then.[/quote:62da0ff70f]
r u steve then? what a nice chinese id u 've got [/quote:62da0ff70f]

別誤會, 偶是新來的, NOT STEVE! 不過如果STEVE看得上偶這個ID, 偶願奉上, 敬請笑納