关于近期直播及回放调整公告
According to the feedbacks from many of my VIP members, most of whom felt it is too demanding a task for them to catch up with my pace. I was told from the working parent that, in order to keep abreast with the progress of Season 02 while digesting Season 01, they had to rush the pace and rough the content, which makes the learning journey quite weary and less enjoyable. For what it’s worth, it clearly indicates that we’re now going off at a tangent, deviating from my initial purpose of mixing study with pleasure. Meanwhile, I myself had been working my tail off to plough ahead, and to level with you, I felt exhausted as well.
In retrospect, it took me 3 years to dive into studying Desperate Housewives, with a journal of approximately 500,000 words, I had every minor detail of my learning journey meticulously documented, I sorted out the most practical components of the English language and captured every inspirational idea the moment it sailed into view. I dare to say, it is indeed a magnificent project.
Roughly speaking, the total work load of learning one season of DH is more than the whole set of New Concept English add up together. As a result, it seems unrealistic to fully capture the essence of this show and connect the dots of the English language within a short period of time. So, I did a lot of soul-searching in recent days, and I thought it best to take my VIP members into account, therefore, I’m planning to slow down the development of DH Season 2 and reopen my livestreaming of DH Season 1, for the purpose that, on one hand, fine-tune the flaws and rectify the errors that I made earlier. On the other, make sure those who’re lagging behind could have a second chance to revive their passion of learning.
In addition, I followed up with the progress of our group-up activity, after discussing with @Sophia and @Mila, the two group leaders contributed a lot in terms of how we could better facilitate the teammates who’re willing to breakthrough, and I really appreciate that they took advantage of every resource at their disposal to keep the participants on board and our group-up initiative afloat, Given that the group-up activity is what we can make the most of when it comes to advancing verbal speaking skills, so I decided to carry out my second-round livestreaming in line with the progress of the group-up activity, hopefully, this would add fuel to the fire, to better engage the active members of our group.
The second-round live broadcasting will be conducted in accordance with the usual timetable, from 7pm to 11pm, and the playbacks of correspondent episode will be tuned in during the day time in our short-video account. Actually, I was planning to introduce commercial breaks while livestreaming the playbacks, then it occurred to me that most of the VIP members would prefer to watch playbacks on wechat platform rather than my website, therefore, I decided not to include the ads but to curate the balance by differentiating visitors – From tomorrow on, random visits will be required to pay wechat beans to get access to each independent session while VIP members are free to watch as soon as you send me your wechat ID. So please offer me your wechat ID by noon so that I can include your ID into the “authorized user list” by tonight.
近期据不少会员反映，目前我在开发第二季的过程当中，有很多朋友第一季还没有来得及消化，向我反馈跟上进度很疲累，尤其是那些还在上班的家长朋友，要想跟上进度，只能是囫囵吞枣。这样的学习方式偏离了我所预先设定的航线，背离了我创建《精听细学》这个频道的初衷。与此同时，我自己也是忙得头发胡子都没有时间打理，在开发新一季内容过程中，显得疲于应付。说真心话，我也累得够呛。再加上第一季所投入的巨大精力和心血并没有产出我预想中的价值回报，导致我再往下开发的激情和动力严重不足，而且直播的心态或多或少地受到了影响。
细想过往，我本人第一季学了三年，写了将近50万字的内容，一丝不苟地记录了我学习过程中所整理的实用语料和创作灵感，这毫无疑问是个巨大而又壮丽的工程。我大致算了一下，绝望的主妇一季的精学任务量比新概念全部四册加起来的任务量还要大。因此，对于很多非脱产学习的人，尤其是年龄比较大的朋友来说，要在短时间内领会《绝望的主妇》这部剧里的精髓，融会贯通里面所有的知识点确实太难为大家了，（群内少数功底很深的朋友例外）。所以我最近做了一些反思，综合权衡了一下我们VIP会员的利益，我打算先放缓对第二季的开发，重新在直播间与大家共同鉴赏这部剧，一来查漏补缺，校正之前讲解中的一些内容瑕疵和错误，二来，尽量兼顾咱们VIP家庭里那些基础相对薄弱、甚至打算放弃的会员，让大家重燃学习的激情。
另外，在跟进了本次组队练习的情况，并与Sophia和Mila商量讨论后，两名带队组长对如何帮助有意愿突破自我的组员提出了一些有建设性的方案，我非常欣赏她们在凝聚各位组员所做出的努力和将活动坚持搞下去的决心。不管大家是否相信，组队练习是能够帮助我们口语最大化限度提升的核心所在。因而，我决定将接下来第二遍讲解的进度与参与跟组练习的VIP会员学习进度保持一致，希望可以帮助大家将已经点燃的激情充分释放，以更好地促进大家的参与和交流。
本次重新讲解的时间段按照原来的计划不变，定为晚间时间7点至11点，白天我会在我们的视频号更新该集已整理好的内容回放。（原本我是打算把回放这个环节多打点广告，但发现我的VIP用户多数还是习惯了在微信上看回放，所以我决定回放不搞广告，而是实行用户区别对待——从明日起，游客观看需要支付微信豆，VIP会员则无此限制，当然，大家需要把你们的微信号（非昵称）发给我，我将于今晚统一给大家授权。
Owen Lee （2022-08-14）
