There are many foreign students from home in our university. I feel very excellent, sunny and progressive when I have been in contact with them. Of course, it's not without problems. Take the email written by foreign students as an example. After communicating with many colleagues, the problem is really not small. We often receive such emails, which have neither Title nor signature. Some don't even have a title. They come up with a threatening tone to intimidate the teacher: if you don't do it as soon as possible, you are in danger of losing your reputation. Of course, this is an exaggerated description by foreigners. However, such emails are usually from our foreign students with IELTS score of more than 6.5, which still puzzles many foreigners.

1. First, write an email with a short title to let the reader know what you want to do soon. If your email involves many problems, simply say "from shanyong" with a title like this. In short, it can't be empty.

2. There is a lot of attention to address in the English context. If you are writing an email to someone you are not familiar with for the first time, it is usually Dear Mr (MRS, miss) Wang. Mr, Mrs, married, miss, unmarried. If the other party has a title, you can say Prof. Wang, Dr Wang, etc. It should be noted that these titles are called differently in different countries. In Europe, professors, associate professors, senior lecturers and lecturers are usually called Dr. in Europe, the wife of a professor can also be called Prof. XX. Although in fact, the wife of a professor may not really be a professor. In addition, in Europe, it seems to attach great importance to the title of doctor, because not all professors are doctors. It seems that the United States can call assistant professors above. In Australia, in addition to professors, associate professors are also specially called associate professors. Of course, associate professors always call Dr. in my case, many students from Hong Kong are used to calling their teachers dear sir. Sir is a bit like the name of the police - "a sir" in previous Hong Kong films, full of awe. Of course, I have also received students from the mainland calling me teacher Wang. Although the real English environment is not so used, it is also very kind. With the permission of the teacher, local students are usually more used to calling their teacher's name directly. In fact, they feel very good. Because of equality, they feel that they have become very young.

3. When it comes to the name of foreigners, many Chinese actually have a misunderstanding, because we have been watching English movies and feel that it is normal for foreigners to call their names directly. Therefore, when communicating with their tutors / teachers, many foreign students also call them by their first names, which is actually impolite. Usually, you can call them by name only after they are "authorized" by familiar colleagues, friends or each other (usually big professors and elders). For example, when I first came to work in Australia, I always wrote an email to call a professor XX. Later, after a long time, everyone became familiar with it. In particular, the senior professor / elder officially told you that you can call him by his first name, so that you can call him by his first name directly in the email. Such as hi John, hi Robert, etc. As for the rules for students to address teachers, it is usually polite for students to write to teachers for the first time, such as dear Mr Wang, Dr Wang, Prof. Wang, etc. Once the teacher replies, the signature is regars, shanyong. This usually means that the teacher allows you to call them by name in future email exchanges. Instead, at the beginning of writing a letter for the first time, I was very unfamiliar with hi shanyong.

4. As mentioned earlier, some foreign teachers reported that many Chinese students write emails very rude and impolite. How can you make your email more polite except for the proper title? Here are two English magic words, one is please, and the second is thank you. According to our Chinese culture, the more intimate a friend is, the more impolite he is. Being too polite is a layman. Between parents and children, and between husband and wife, "please" and "thank you" are inseparable. Chinese people will feel that you are too good at pretending and untrue. But in the English environment, it is very normal for such polite words to be used frequently. This is different cultures and habits. On the contrary, if you don't use these polite words in your email, you are using the tone of command. For example, I want to make an appointment with you to discuss something. If you say I want to talk with you for. If you say can I please make an appointment with you for... It will sound much more comfortable and polite. There are many other common polite usages, such as I am wondering... I approve... And so on, especially when sending a very formal email.

5. In addition, you must be punctual when working and communicating with foreigners. Punctuality is to abide by the agreed time, neither late nor early. When foreigners deal with the day's affairs, their schedule is determined by email. Unlike our Chinese wechat, the phone is on call. If you don't have an appointment, it's impolite to go directly to the office to discuss the problem with the teacher, or you knocked at the door at 1:30 when the appointment was 2 p.m. Because he may have another meeting at half past one. The so-called being targeted and wronged encountered by many foreign students in their study and life is actually a problem in communicating with others and a deviation in understanding different cultural backgrounds. Therefore, the real life of studying abroad is not only to complete a few courses, a few credits and finally get a diploma, but also to study in an all-round way.

6. Just now, I talked about the various problems of so many Chinese students in writing email. Do foreign students, such as freshmen, know these rules very well? Our answer is not necessarily, it is also full of problems, but the degree of severity is different. Therefore, we will remind these freshmen on the first day of class as follows:

While on the topic of emails, good communication via email is important to a professional engineer. As such I expect any email to be written in a professional manner. Emails should include.