The Importance of Teaching English in China

I was 19 when I went to China for a gap year. It was my first taste of another culture and learning another language. The people were so friendly, the weather was beautiful. And teaching English only did it very briefly. This was just a very kind of preliminary experience. But how did this propel you forward and saying, okay, I want to really learn the language? "I became really interested in what I was doing," she says.