...inspiring the use of technology and gadgets which I love when I was a Specialist at Apple. As a Hongkonger, I am here to share my love of my language Cantonese and culture in Hong Kong. I hope this platform can be a cultural exchange with each other. Moreover, if you are the person who love technology but don't know how to use the Mac/iOS apps well, it is a chance for me to share...
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...international business in the UK. I have taught more than 100 lessons of Chinese language teaching on other platform before and most of my students are from the US and UK. I really enjoy meeting new people and having a conversation by language learning. I can't wait to talk to you! My teaching style is to guide my students to find a faster and more effective way sustainably to learn Chinese. But I really enjoy...
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...in Hong Kong and got the Certificate of Putonghua Proficiency Level in Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I can separate difficult concepts into small parts of bite-sized consumable knowledge. It is important for students to learn and develop through education. In my experience of different aged students which included the kids or the elderly, they enjoy the class and use their knowledge in daily...
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...a strong foundation in providing professional knowledge and invigorated me with efficient communication skills. It is crucial to eliminate complex knowledge to apprehensible titbits. It is a way of communicating, showing care for one another, and celebrating together. My future career goal is to help students truly love what they are learning. As a nutritionist with a nursing background, I aim to offer knowledge support to students and monitor them over time for keeping track...
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I am a Bachelor in Education degree holder and graduated from The Hong Kong Institute of Education. I help my students on their Maths and Chinese and I like to solve and discuss the difficult questions together with my students.
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...study, I acquired solid knowledge of language pedagogies including lesson planning, language assessment, classroom management and educational psychology. In terms of practical experience, I have taught a total number of 150 students, ranging from primary two to secondary three, with excellent feedback from my supervisors. My research potential is seen in my BEd dissertation which investigated the effectiveness of a disruptive pedagogy in a traditional school environment. The research study was well received by my...
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...on college campus. I was born in Guangdong, China, and I moved to the states when I was in middle school, thus allowing me to be completely fluent in all three languages. I value my culture a lot, and even until today, I still maintain the habit of reading at least one book in Chinese every 2 weeks. I love personalized tutoring, so I have a very efficient system of targeting my course plans according...
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...College for introductory biology classes for a few semesters, and also work as a lab technician at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory focusing on breast cancer. Most my experience in teaching has been with community college students, so I aim to make the concepts clear and inspire them to further their career in science. As a first generation Chinese immigrant, I am also fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese! I am very passionate about the subjects...
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...general homework help, mathematics, history, SAT prep, and Chinese. I was born in Hong Kong and lived there until I was 9. I am a native speaker of and am academically proficient in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. My favorite subject to tutor is Chinese, because Chinese culture is fascinating and the language reflects that depth very well. I am patient, honest, and flexible. My Meyers-Briggs personality type is ENFP, so I am passionate, encouraging, and...
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...also tutor Chinese to a high school student twice a week and substituted several times at Jersey Shore Chinese School on Saturdays. It is my goal to combine my knowledge and experience in language education as well as my ability to be a passionate, hard-working Chinese language teacher to create good learning experiences for the students in the future. As a native speaker of Chinese, I wish I could open windows to a different culture...
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...at Haverford College, and I tutor various subjects including Algebra I, Test preps, Mandarin, and Biology for middle to high schoolers. With more than 4 years of experience of tutoring middle to high school students, my experience aligns well with the qualifications you are seeking in a tutor. In addition to my experience, I have a strong acadmeic background and great passion in watching my students succeed in subjects that they are struggling with
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I enjoy helping someone to get where he/she wants to or needs to go. I believe everyone is unique; therefore there isn't just one method in dong anything. Everyone is motivated by something. It is just a matter of finding what that motivation is. ... Find out the root of the problem and work to eradicate that. Not everyone has the same problem; therefore, one cannot use the same method to teach or to learn.... Discover...
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I am a writer and reader, and love helping others also discover the joy in writing and the world it can open up for them. ... Anybody can learn something if they put their mind to it, and have somebody else helping them learn how to put their mind to it.... Get to know them, make sure they are comfortable with me and will ask me questions, and then see what their main concerns are.... Let...
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...to speak Cantonese! So my first "students" were actually my parents! I taught them Cantonese words, so they could at least know what to listen for. I have lived in the US for 10 years. My fiance is American and he speaks in perfect Mandarin now! He says Ni Hao to everyone! If I can help him from zero to conversational, you've got much more potential! I'm here to teach you easy and fun ways...
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...previously was a teaching assistant at the University of Washington for a summer writing course aimed towards middle and high school students, as well as a volunteer at the Coalition of Refugees from Burma, where I assisted an adult technology and conversational English class. After completing the IB Diploma program two years ago, I would love to tutor middle to high school students in subjects related to English writing and history. I strongly believe a...
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...on education. I have experience tutoring English at ESL level, in reading, speaking, and writing. Having learnt several languages myself and being a trilingual speaker (Cantonese, English, Mandarin), I understand the challenges of navigating between languages and am familiar with ways to overcome them. In addition to this, I have taught beginner violin and basic music theory. I've always developed good relationships with my students and their parents, and I strongly believe that this helps...
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Angela graduated from Yale University and has extensive experience mentoring high school and college students. She has worked with high school students on their college admissions essays to top universities and mentored college students through internship and job search processes. She looks forward to working with you!
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...teaching English. Later, I taught Cantonese here in America, and have since tutored and taught Chemistry, Physics, Statistics, Calculus, and lots of Anatomy and Physiology. Most recently, I have been a Teaching Assistant for an Advanced Human Physiology class at BYU. I love teaching because it is so enjoyable to me to see students progress and start to put the pieces together; in my experience, almost everyone can understand any subject at a high level...
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Cantonese Tutoring FAQ
Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong and internationally, and is notable for its relative popularity in the United States. If you've made it your goal to learn Cantonese, whether in preparation for a trip, for business purposes, or to fulfill an academic language requirement, it is important that you be particular about the way in which you go about learning this language. Classes that simply teach you Chinese may very well teach you Mandarin, the dialect of Chinese that is spoken by the greatest number of people. While Mandarin and Cantonese both are represented using Chinese characters, a great number of differences between the dialects make them extremely distinct, to the point where speakers of each are unintelligible to one another. Your Cantonese tutor can assist you in speaking and writing this dialect most fluently.
The way in which a Mandarin speaker and a Cantonese speaker pronounce a certain character can differ widely, and Cantonese involves unique grammatical rules and sentence structures in comparison to Mandarin. Cantonese also includes characters not used in Mandarin, and to make matters more confusing, certain characters can mean one thing in Mandarin and a completely different thing in Cantonese! Obviously, if you want to learn Cantonese, you need to find instruction and resources that deal with this dialect specifically. In the long run, you will be able to effectively communicate and possibly find opportunities you never thought possible - from detailed conversations with Chinese friends to furthering your studies in this area, or landing a job that requires such abilities. A future trip to China can end up being productive and interesting, being that you'll be able to communicate on an impressive level with the locals.
What's an eager student to do, however, if the only Chinese instruction offered to them deals solely with the Mandarin dialect? Varsity Tutors can help you hurdle this obstacle by helping you connect with personalized Cantonese tutoring. One-on-one Cantonese tutoring can help you learn the language efficiently, while helping you build the skills needed to reach your specific goals. Our educational directors can help you select a superb, independent tutor whose skill set best equips them to help you, taking into consideration your current understanding of Cantonese and your previous education in the language. They look at the aspects of Cantonese you understand well, the aspects of the language you find confusing, and even your preferred learning style. Your tutor can identify any gaps in your current level of Cantonese knowledge and then create a curriculum for your Cantonese tutoring sessions focused on helping you master the material you most need to learn or review.
Additionally, because each Cantonese tutoring session is conducted in a one-on-one setting, you can have your instructor's full attention. That means if you have a question about the material, you can have it answered immediately in a way that makes sense to you. You can also receive feedback on your work as soon as you finish an exercise, or practice your conversational skills with an excellent speaking partner. The tutor's level of detail will certainly challenge you, but in a way that makes sure you know how you are progressing. This will leave little guesswork once you are fluent and able to communicate with someone whose first language is Cantonese. The Varsity Tutors live learning platform allows you to meet with a private tutor either in person or face-to-face online. This gives you the flexibility to meet with your tutor at the time and location of your choice.
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Recent Cantonese Tutoring Session Notes
I went over her practice test that she had taken earlier that day in preparation for her chemistry exam on 4.26. The test reviewed many topics from this semester as well as new material on the crystal field theory and splitting energy.
Today the student had to take a practice midterm exam of the first six sessions since we started working together. As far as the material goes, she seemed to be pretty comfortable with it. There are still some things she needs to work on, but we had already gone over those together. We also reviewed the second half of material since we picked up our sessions again. Since those are more recent, she didn't have many questions with the concepts.
To start I gave the student a quiz on the vocabulary from lesson 4, dialogue 1, which he did very well on. We briefly reviewed grammar, then spent most of the remaining time working on translations, mostly from English to Chinese.
Today, we talked about pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, and quantifiers in Chinese. We finished the core vocabulary for preparing the test, so next class we will start talking about the sentence structures.
Reading practice ( a short poem)
Writing practice
Final 4 week review of:
-Personal introductions
-Basic greetings
-Words in the class room (teacher, students, classmates etc.)
Vocabulary memory game
Go Fish
Today, we practiced and performed the presentation that the student had prepared for her mother. She gave a presentation using photos of her family and explaining who each member was in Mandarin Chinese. We then sang and danced to a children's song in Mandarin. The rest of the class focused on pin-yin pronunciation practice.
