6. So we've just talked about, your school is also face to Chinese students, not only the international students, why do you think it’s important to do so?
您的学校招收许多中国学生，而不是仅仅招收国际学生，您认为这一点很重要吗？

You mean why it’s most important to be working with Chinese students?
你指的是为什么招收中国学生很重要是吗？

If you are going to study in the west environment, they have to prepare for it. For instance, if you go to a Chinese public school, and Chinese public schools at all, they do a very very good job in preparing students for Chinese university. Canadian and Western high schools do not prepare them to go to a Chinese university; in the same way, Chinese high schools don’t prepare them to go to a western university. Sure, they may get marks in the high school, and they write niles in the TOEFL, and they make it at 6.5. and I answer TOEFL is only a test. It’s not indicator of success. We have many students come out of Chinese public schools, and yes, they will do very well at university, get high marks, but what I hear from them and I hear from university representatives that kids will complain “I have no Canadian friends. All my friends are Chinese because I haven’t had opportunities when I was in public school to interact with foreigners. So I really don’t know how. ” and when it comes into interacting with professor, they don’t know how to do that either. In Canada and other Western places, students also have the opportunities to work while they got to the university and afterwards. And I’ve been told by employers that what happens to students in Chinese public high schools, although they may have very good marks, they do very poor at interviews. So they fear to interact with foreigners. We say kids come here at school like ours are likely to have it.You know what’s basically is that we have almost  54 foreign teachers at our school, Canadian teachers. So they are interacting all day with foreigners and they get so used to it. I have kids coming into my office, say “hi, open up my candy jugs.”I keep the candy jugs in my office. It’s a community of candies to talk about it.
如果你想到国外去学习，那就要做好准备。举个例子，中国的高中为中国学生进入中国大学做了充分的准备，但是加拿大或者西方的高中不会为学生进入中国大学做准备。同理，中国高中也不会为学生进入国外大学做准备。所以，中国学生在高中的成绩很好，托福的分数也很高，但对我来说，托福只是一个考试而已，它不能代表什么。我们有很多中国的学生，在学校里成绩很好，但我听他们本人或者是国外大学的代表说，这些孩子抱怨他们没有加拿大的朋友，他们的朋友都是中国人，他们在国内没有机会接触到外国人。他们不知道如何和外国人打交道。这样的问题，在和教授交流时也会发生。在加拿大和其他一些西方国家，学生们还有机会外出打工。这样，就有些雇主跟我说他们感到很奇怪，为什么中国的学生在学校的成绩那么好，面试的表现却那么糟呢？他们害怕与外国人交流。到像我们这样的学校来学习的孩子就会接触到这些。我们有54位来自加拿大的老师，学生们整天都要和外国人交流，他们早就习惯了这样。有一次，学生们跑到我的办公室来跟我说，“给我开个糖罐头吧”，我会在办公室里放些糖罐头，就是这样一种轻松的氛围。

That’s funny.
这个真的很有意思。

7. That’s the biggest advantage for students who go to the international high school also is going to be like the biggest problem for them first in run the school, like for kids who have been taught in Chinese public schools for last 12 years, and then they get into the international school. How they are going to face the first problem?
这就是读国际学校的学生最大的优势，那么当他们第一次进入国际学校时，他们面对的最大的问题是什么呢？这些学生在中国接受了12年的教育，他们在第一次进入国际学校时，是怎么面对这些问题的呢？

We do best stages like it depends a lot on students’ English level. If students have very good English, they can get ready to international program or Canadian program. If their English level is low, they are going to the foundation program. Once you get into the British Columbia program, our teachers are used to teaching Chinese kids, in all-years kids. Then they realized that every one of them is a second-language learner. So we need to take it slow and we need to gradually warm up. We are trying to get kids involved. First when you walk into a classroom, students say very little. So you do all kinds of things to break the ice and get kids involved. We have some really exceptional kids in our school turn out to be student leaders who also take a lot of things to get students involved. We have so many activities after school. We have all the traditional sports including hockey. We also have all kinds of clubs, yoga clubs; we have reading clubs, we have yoga clubs, we have horse-riding clubs, so something there for everybody. It doesn’t matter what kind students you are.
这要根据学生们的英语水平来定。英语水平好的学生就可以直接进入国际项目或者加拿大项目学习，而英语水平欠佳的学生就要从基础项目开始。一旦进入BC省（不列颠哥伦比亚省）的教育项目，我们的老师都是有过教中国学生的经验的，他们教过各个年龄的学生。他们知道如何面对二语学习者，他们会慢慢来，循序渐进。我们鼓励学生多多参与。当你刚走进教室时，学生们很少说话，所以你要想尽办法让学生们参与进来。我们有些特别优秀的学生成了学生领袖，他们也会尽量鼓励学生们多多参与。我们有很多的课外活动。我们学校有所有的传统体育项目比如曲棍球。我们还有各种俱乐部，阅读俱乐部，瑜伽俱乐部，骑马俱乐部等等，不管你是怎样的学生，每个人都可以参与到这些活动中来。

So can we say like students in your school, they basically get involved in a pure English environment?
所以，贵校的学生都是浸泡在纯英语的环境中？

That’s right. And in fact, from 7:50 in the morning to 2:40 in the afternoon, they only talk to foreigners. English is the only language it’s used. So they are really immerged to it.
对的。从早上7：50分到下午2:40分，学生们的交流对象都是外国人，英语是唯一的交流语言，他们是真正地沉浸在英语之中。

Can we like after 6 years like the training there, they can basically speak fluent English?
那么，在贵校接受6年的学习后，学生们基本上都能说非常流利的英语咯？

Oh, yeah, in fact the exams they have to do in grade 10, there are 3 exams, one in grade 11, and in grade 12, they have been passed for 5 exams. But they are exactly the same exams they do in Canada, identical exams. What was amazing was last year, we outperformed other off-shore BC schools in China, but we also outperformed the BC schools back in Canada. So we’re really proud of our kids.
当然。学生们在10年级的时候，要通过三门考试，其中有一门是在11年级测试，在12年级，他们还要通过五门考试。这些考试和在加拿大的考试是一模一样的。去年，我们获得了极佳的表现，我们学生的成绩比中国其他BC学校的学生的成绩都要好，甚至比加拿大的学生的成绩也要更好。我真的很为我们的学生感到骄傲。