Hollis, NY Mandarin Chinese Lessons

I majored in Mandarin Chinese back in college (many years ago...) and also studied Chinese at Tunghai University in Taiwan. I have excellent pronunciation, and can help you also master Mandarin pronunciation, as well as grammar, sentence structure, reading and writing, etc.

Being from Singapore, I am fluent in both English and Mandarin. I can read, write and speak at a bilingual, native proficiency in both languages. I primary speak English at home, but studied mandarin for over 10 years in school. I'll start by teaching your basic intonations, sentences, and even some idioms to spice things up! Mandarin is a musical language that's quickly taking over the world, you'll have lots of fun learning this language.

I've been teaching Chinese for almost 8 years and my students have gone on to develop a deep love of Chinese language, culture and more! Within the first few lessons, you'll start learning and speaking simple practical Chinese characters and sentences and as time goes on, you'll be able to write and speak Chinese fluently.I typically use worksheets, living textbooks,Chinese songs, role play and more. I love working with students of all experience levels.

Hi. I'm Chinese and I moved to the US when I was in six grade. Even through I stayed here for a long time I still use Chinese in day to day basis and I'm still completely fluent. In my lessons you will expect to learn how to speak mandarin by learning the pinyin (拼音) system and how to write chinese.

I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Within the first few lessons, you'll start speaking simple sentences/ phrases and as time goes on, you'll be able to perfect your tones! I typically use practice books and have worksheets. I love working with students of all experience levels. Speaking is very important as much as reading/ recognizing characters. You'll be able to practice writing the characters the right way.

At my lessons, I have creativity and do my best to build an exciting and interesting learning experience. I believe that to learn a foreign language, students must understand the basics of the culture. My lessons include a basic cultural section where I introduce culture and customs to the students. I also share my impressions and experience with students, so they are more interested in the subject, motivated and inspired to learn a Mandarin Chinese.

Most of the students are afraid of learning Chinese because of Chinese characters and the tones, but I will show you that it can be quite easy and fun. Chinese characters are the soul of Chinese language and I would like to lead you into the wonderful world of Chinese characters learning,

I am here to assist you in your own unique Mandarin Chinese language-learning journey. I don't use only one book, so we won't have a page by page language process, we will actually write our own book which will be tailored to your needs, I believe ...

Ni hao! My name is Shanshan , I was born in Mainland China and finished my bachelor’s degree at Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics. I have completed my master’s degree at Southeast Missouri State University with an emphasis in Higher Education Administration. My written and spoken Chinese are both excellent. I have owned the first prize in the Chinese Youth Calligraphy Competition and got Grade B of the first class in the Certificate of Putonghua Proficiency Test.
Since I can remember, I have always had aspirations to be a Chinese teacher. I like the idea of passing on my knowledge to a new generation of pupils. English is my second language, in my college years, I used to work in cram School to teach elementary school students the basic level of language, including listening, reading, speaking, and writing and always love to try different ways to help students to learn Chinese. My teaching style is to make the course of study happier and easier. Let’s study and ...

Teacher background: Chinese, a native Mandarin Chinese speaker
Provide lessons range: All levels and ages
Lesson content (listening, spoken, reading, written):
Pinyin
Characters
Vocabulary
Phrase
Article
Conversation
Poetry
Business letter

"Nihao" and "Huanying" to Mandarin Chinese tutoring!

I have 2 years of experience teaching Standard Mandarin Chinese at both beginners and intermediate levels in Beijing, China from 2011 to 2013. I also worked as a translator of business documents, NGOs projects, and academic articles, from 2010 - 2013.

As a student of linguistic anthropology at the University of Chicago, I specialize not only in teaching the communicative aspect of Mandarin Chinese, but also its metalinguistic ones such as language ideology and language politics in contemporary China. A life-long lover of Chinese classical and modern literature, I'm also happy to discuss the historical and literary aspects of Mandarin Chinese with students who are willing to learn more about the Chinese language in its culture.