If you want to learn native Chinese from a program named “learn Chinese one-on-one”, you should come and study in China. China is a county with fast economic development. It has a history of about five thousand years. When you study in China, you can learn a lot about Chinese culture and history. Among those cities in China, Kunming is one of the best places to go.

When you come to learn Chinese one-on-one in Kunming, you should choose Keats School. If you want to do some self studying, you can go to Kunming Library and check out with some new services provide by the library after learning Chinese one-on-one. Kunming Library is near Keats School. In recent years, local government strengthens its investment in cultural infrastructure construction. In 2006, Kunming government invested 10,000,000 Yuan into the reconstruction and decoration project of Kunming Library, and the library reopened on February 14, 2007.

In order to quicken the pace of automization and modernization as well as bring convenience to students who were learning Chinese one-on-one, the reopened Kunming Library stressed the integration of storage, borrowing and reading. For those who wanted to know some local history of Kunming through learning Chinese one-on-one, the Kunming Library edited and published some books with basic information of the city of Kunming, such as 历代诗人咏昆明, 历代昆明地方文献评述 and 历代散文品昆明. All these books help a lot in people’s understanding of Kunming.

Kunming Library also provided many kinds of services to local citizen and foreign learners who learn Chinese one-on-one in Kunming. It reduced the entrance fee and opened everyday to the public. The library also made many questionnaires to know about readers’ needs for a library. There are also many special services sections in the library if you need some special service to assist your learning Chinese one-on-one. Those sections include 个人视听区, 工具书和艺术类图书阅览区 and 视障阅览区. There are 6000 kinds of video materials in Kunming Library, and about 19300 readers come to the library every year. Those materials include Chinese and western movies, cartoons, documentary films and social science materials. There are also routine speeches and story- telling parties to help children learn something from.

If you go to the library after learning Chinese one-on-one, you will know there is a new kind of machine for self-help borrowing and returning books and the machine is on a trail stage. The appearance of the machine is more like a bank ATM. With the machine, you can borrow and return books without delay and waiting, which makes it much easier for those who learn Chinese one-on-one in Kunming to control the flow of books. Self-help borrowing and returning books service will provide a 24 hours service system, and the new machine applies RFID electronic labels to realize the goal of information management.

Now all the literature books in Kunming Library have been marked with RFID electronic labels. It is estimated that in the end of October, 100,000 books will be labeled and ready for those who want to borrow and read the book. The machine will be formally put into use in November, and the “24 hours self-help borrowing and returning books” will also start in November. As for those who has already registered a borrow card, you can go to the service counter in the 1st floor of Kunming Library to change a new one. For those who do not have the card, you can make a new one with your identification paper.