Evaluating an Informative Speech

After watching the Youtube video "Learn to read Chinese...with ease!" by ShaoLan, it seems to me this is a good example of an informative speech presentation because she hit all the techniques that are required in a well developed informative speech which are: defining a specific purpose, making it easy for your audience to listen, use clear and simple language, emphasize important points, and generate audience involvement (Adler, 2015). In this video, the strengths are using creative ideas on how to remember Chinese characters. In my opinion, Chinese characters basically look like a bunch of lines, and ShaoLan made those lines turn into pictures that helps you remember what they mean. For example, the character for "person" literally looks like someone going for a walk, and from now on if I ever see that character, I am going to be able to read it and identify it as "a person". Another strength ShaoLan used was how she used clear and simple language. When she was teaching the basic 8 characters, she picked easy, simple, day to day characters to teach rather than hardcore characters that no one would probably remember.
For improvement, I feel like it would've been nice if she generated more audience involvement. Maybe she could've asked the audience if they had any questions in the end before she walked off. And by this, she could paraphrase confusing asked questions, avoid defense reactions to questions, and answer the question briefly (Adler, 2015).
Techniques that we can learn from her are repetition, limiting the amount of information you present, and transitioning from simple to more complex information. By repetition, ShaoLan repeated the meaning of characters in order for them to absorb into the audience's head. Also, by limiting the amount of characters she taught to the audience (8), it helps them to remember that limited information without it being too overwhelming to the point where they forget it all. And, by transitioning from simple to more complex information, ShaoLan started off by teaching simple Chinese characters, and then gradually moving to more complex characters that build off of the simple ones to make more sense.