As a professional Mandarin instructor with almost two decades worth of teaching experience in American schools, I came to recognize how language-learning in a school setting is only one step in the long journey of acquiring a foreign language. I felt a need and urge to bring my profession beyond school, and I believe professional teaching should be accessible to anyone at any point in their life. It is with this belief that I founded MAD Mandarin LLC in 2018 with the goal to incorporate the latest teaching methods with my own innovative approach of Mindful-Active-Dynamic to positively achieve the best language-learning results.
有人问我什么是“啃老族”？它的英文怎么说？”啃”的字面意思是 bite， ”老“ 是elder ，“啃老”一般指孩子成年后，还依赖父母来提供主要生活来源。英文中 “live off ”这个词代表的是依赖某人生活的意思，所以”live off one’s parents “就是”啃老族“的意思。
”啃老族“还和NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) 的意思相近。无论是”啃老族“ 还是NEET 都有负面的涵义。
另外，除了”啃老族“，中文里还有”追星族“ “丁克族” “月光族”等等。你能猜猜它们是什么意思吗？
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