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.
初学中文，我们常常需要母语（英文）的帮助。可是，我们的母语常常会误导我们。 今天我们就讲一个最常见的例子: “是”。
“是” 是我们最先学到的词之一。我们会把它和英文的 “to be” 等同起来，而按照英文的使用方式去用它，这样就造成了麻烦。
例如： “我是忙”就是一个错误的表达。这个句子正确的说法是：“ 我很忙”。这里，“很”才是正确的用法，放在”忙“ 这个形容词的前面。这样的例子还有很多，比如：你很漂亮，她很高，他很累，等等。
“我是老师“ 这句话对吗？当然是正确的，因为”老师“是名词。
（注意：“我是忙” 这句话在特定强调的情形下是正确的。）
