Attended: 5 (2 advanced)

Introductions, how long have you been studying Chinese and why?

Went over basic functionality of Pleco, encouraged members to continue looking up new words as we go to get more familiar with the interface.

Pleco points:

• Switching between simplified and traditional
• Switching between English and Chinese (when ambiguous)
• Turning on handwriting input

We went over a couple of short monologues about life, extracting the general structure for other members to customize to their own particular situation.

Original monologues:

我喜欢棒球。

我喜欢看比赛。

我最喜欢小熊队。

我的太太怀孕了。

她会生一个儿子。

她现在不吃糖。