I am a certified high school teacher in China and America for 20 years teaching English and Chinese mandarin. I am passionate about international education, teaching languages and interacting with people interested in different cultures.
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...2023 when I decided to switch gears from several years as a software engineer. Drawing on my BA in math years prior from the University of Chicago, I began as a calculus tutor at a company with several in-person locations in the SF Bay Area, and gradually expanded my roster to include students at every level of high-school math. Finally, I trained in and began to offer SAT and ACT prep, 20 years after reaching...
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Hi! I'm Sophie, I'm a Biomedical Engineering major at Washington University in St. Louis. I'm fluent in Mandarin and English, and am very well versed in high school/AP Biology, Chemistry, Physics, World History, US History, and CAPSTONE.
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...journalist with two years of tutoring experience in the city. A native New Yorker, I graduated from Hunter College High School and went to Williams College, where I majored in biology and Spanish. Afterwards, I got a Master's in science journalism from NYU. I have published science articles in The Atlantic, Popular Science, Audubon Magazine, Vice, and more. My goal is to make learning as highly efficient and fun as possible. Good communication and variety...
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I have been teaching military Chinese for years. I know very well of OPI and DLPT test format. Also, I am teaching college students Chinese as well. I love teaching and want to promote Chinese culture and history. I am a very outgoing, most time student and I will study in a really relaxed and fun environment.
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I majored in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. I have been teaching for more than 6 years. I love working with students helping them to learn both conversation and grammar. I have qualities of a good teacher that include understanding, patience, and passion. I try my best using different ways to help students learn.
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Anyone can learn another language, comparative/applied linguistics and simultaneous translation/interpretation at any age. I use multiple intelligences, multimodality and authentic integrated strategies to make your language learning journey one with ease, proficiency and fluency in four skills and fun!
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Zhongshan University University of Hawaii-Manoa - Bachelor in Arts, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General
Universite de Neuchatel Universitat Bern Switzerland London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art - Doctor of Education, Foreign Languages and Literatures, General
...Master of Arts in Teaching World Languages. I got my Professional Teaching Certificate in Chinese and Spanish (K-12) in 2017. I have worked as substitute teacher at public schools for several long term positions. I've taught as a full time Spanish teacher for two years at middle school level. I am currently working at the local Chinese school to teach Chinese to American children. Teaching language and culture has always been my passion for life....
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...student provided they get the support they need. This means that every single person has the capability to be successful. I do not believe that anybody is "bad at math", some people simply learn in different ways or have not been given the chance to fully engage the subject to understand completely. I believe in teaching holistically, teaching understanding; I believe it is most important to understand the material on your own. Someone can tell...
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...Education (specifically PreK-4), in 2018. I currently am a Kindergarten teacher. Working with children is truly my passion. I have 21 wonderful 5/6 year old students. I still tutor out of school hours. I am always happy to go the extra mile and help with anything, not just the subjects where I specialize. If I don't know the answer to something I'm happy to do the research and figure it out. I'm also happy to...
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I have a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and I am currently working towards obtaining my Master of Engineering in Materials Science and Nano-Engineering at Rice University. I have tutored all levels of high school math, high school chemistry and ACT/SAT prep. I have served as teaching assistant for several K-12 STEM focused summer programs ranging from elementary school to high school.
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...passionate about sharing the rich heritage and nuances of my native tongue with others. Outside of languages, I enjoy traveling, reading, swimming, dancing and attending plays or concerts. I believe that the key driver of academic success is genuine interest in the subject. As a tutor, my foremost aim is to find new and creative ways to provoke curiosity and excitement in the student, because after all, learning must first and foremost be fun!!
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...with deeper levels of English writing, grammar, and pronunciation. As a child, I studied English pronunciation and speech at an acting academy. As an adult, I help friends and associates who need to improve their English skills for professional work. I have held news writing and reporting positions that required English writing that was top tier. In addition to language, I love classical music. I play the trumpet in a band. I also like martial...
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...and graduate students, I specialize in tutoring many subjects, mostly in the humanities and social sciences. I also tutor in Mandarin Chinese. As a native speaker in Chinese, I love to teach Chinese because the language relates to my background and specialty. I can also tutor areas in social sciences, including statistics, biostatistics, psychology, etc. I am looking forward to meeting new students. My teaching philosophy is to let students get the most out of...
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...which is English, so I know how frustrating it can be to "decipher" a sentence in a foreign language. Knowing that Chinese is much more difficult to learn than English is, I think a good strategy would be to compensate the struggles with fun activities. During my semester abroad in Taiwan where I taught local students English, I turned away from the old school memorization techniques and instead taught them through interactive activities such as...
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Native Mandarin Chinese speaker who studied English in China for Bachelor's and had Master's in University of Birmingham in UK, travelled to 14 countries, now lives in Alexandria, VA in US. Love cross culture and making friends, have great passion in languages!
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Extremely experienced Chinese Mandarin or Shanghainese "WU" Dialect Instructor with over 19 years of transferable skills in training and assessment, simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and translation. Professional, punctual, reliable, accurate. Having helped many satisfied returning customer and by referrals, I look forward to helping you for both business and academic purposes.
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If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar to a needle. dripping water penetrates the stone. ... Introduce each other, and let my student know that learning can be fun.... I will turn small homework and easy projects to games, and present it to my student. Learning can be fun.... Find motivation in each student. Personalize it. Make learning fun.... Patience is a must. Make learning fun for my student.... Make...
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Mandarin Chinese 1 Tutoring FAQ
Mandarin Chinese 1 courses equip you with knowledge of the core fundamentals of the Mandarin dialect and prepares you for more advanced studies in the language. While this may be the first in a sequence of Mandarin classes that you are planning to take, you should not assume that it will necessarily be the easiest one. It's possible you may encounter more trouble in this class than in more advanced ones because of the initial challenges that learning Mandarin Chinese presents. Throughout the course, you will be expected to familiarize yourself with several different ways of representing Chinese text, including Pinyin Romanization, simplified characters, and traditional characters. For students who grew up speaking a language based on the Latin alphabet, this can present a large obstacle from the very first day of instruction. Additionally, students must learn to work with both hand-written and typed forms, which can cause additional stress. If this challenging subject has you down, get connected with a Mandarin Chinese 1 tutor in your area for one-on-one instruction.
Certain features of spoken Mandarin also present a bit of a learning curve. For example, Mandarin Chinese's use of four tones can create a stumbling block for new students. English makes extremely little use of tones, while Mandarin speakers rely on tone as a significant factor in determining the meaning of a spoken sentence. These initial difficulties must be surmounted before students can proceed with the main work of Mandarin Chinese 1, which is learning the core vocabulary needed to express yourself and communicate with others in the language.
Classes typically expect you to express your own opinions and back them up with evidence using vocabulary and grammatical knowledge that has been gained. They also require you to develop comprehensive understanding of cultural implications and the ability to discuss Chinese culture in the Mandarin tongue. If you are having trouble mastering the features of Mandarin Chinese or retaining all of the vocabulary that you need to memorize, one-on-one Mandarin Chinese 1 tutoring can give you the personalized help that you require to excel.
At Varsity Tutors, our educational directors connect you with a private instructor based on your individual needs. To make the process as effective as possible, your independent tutor will analyze your current Mandarin Chinese knowledge, your concerns about your class, and the teaching methods that allow you to learn best. They can then use this information to help you connect with a Mandarin Chinese 1 tutor who suits your academic profile. Your knowledgeable tutor can take stock of your Mandarin knowledge and create an individual learning plan for your Mandarin Chinese 1 tutoring sessions. This plan can focus on just the aspects of Mandarin Chinese in which it would most benefit you to improve your understanding. This way, you do not need to review material that already makes sense to you, allowing each of your tutoring sessions to be efficient and effective.
A Mandarin Chinese tutor can guide you through exercises targeting your weakest areas, answering your questions and providing feedback along the way. A tutor can even provide opportunities to practice your conversational skills and help you master the tone-based pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese terms if this aspect of the language is giving you trouble. No matter what parts of your Mandarin Chinese 1 class you are struggling with, a tutor can address these troublesome areas with targeted assistance. 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, whether it be daytime, evenings, or even weekends, and whether it's at a local library, cafe, or in your own home.
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Recent Mandarin Chinese 1 Tutoring Session Notes
In this class, we worked on the Chinese consonants and vowels. As a singer, the student was very talented in grasping different tones, he was able to read every tone accurately. We also practiced reading more pinyin by showing some sample words. We will do more practice and introduce some characters in Chinese.
The student had a good session today. He learned his dictation words and copied two sentences containing those words. He read a passage out loud in Chinese. He checked his work and made corrections to previous workbook page and completed one additional page in his workbook.
The student and I went over the previous session's dialogue on date and time, and then we went over a new dialogue involving hobbies. We also reviewed basic sentence structures and various modifications of sentence structure, and we practiced a few grammar drills. We also discussed ways to maintain Mandarin skills, including watching movies or TV shows in Mandarin.
We mainly reviewed the characters learned in the past two weeks. I asked the students to read and recognize the characters I put on the presentation paper. The characters were about colors and common objects in real life so I also reviewed the meanings of them by asking them to connect the colors to the objects by reading the characters. We played a game in which the squares were presented in Chinese characters to improve their recognition. I also introduced a traditional Chinese food, zong zi, as today is the holiday to have that food.
I taught the student eight words (up, down, big, small, you, me, hello, goodbye) and reintroduced the word for dog. We did some charades to help memorize the new words and created very simple sentences to help her remember and contextualize the vocabulary. For example, I taught her how to say "my dog is big" and "your dog is small". We used flashcards to help teach this point, which I think helped a lot. I told her to study her flashcards and bring them to our session next week.
New monthly vocab: Last name, name, called. Chinese last names: Wang, Li, Chen, Zhang
History of Chinese last names
Vocab practice (word search)
Listening practice (online videos)
Convo practice (What is your name? What is your brother's name? Where are you from? What is your favorite Chinese food? etc.)
Character writing practice
