Yi-Hsuan

Hello :)

My name is Yi-Hsuan, and I have been teaching Mandarin for more than 7 years throughout Asia and the UK. I possess an MA in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching from the University of York and and certification of Teaching Chinese as a foreign language from Ministry of Education (Taiwan ROC).

I pride myself in my ability to design and adapt teaching materials specific to your needs and goals, whether that be to learn conversational Mandarin for travel, to pass exams, or to help you on your journey to become fluent. Based on students’ needs, I can adapt and design suitable teaching materials, and also adopt different kinds of teaching methods to achieve successful teaching. I specialise in teaching Mandarin in Mandarin which helps students to enhance their Mandarin more effectively.

I am good at creating a friendly and interesting classroom environment which encourages students to use language in the classroom actively and learn Mandarin happily. Rather than lots of mechanical drills, I prefer using activities/tasks, and incorporating current events and culture to create a more authentic situation for students to practice Mandarin.

I have received very positive feedback from my previous students, who have said that the comfortable classroom environment and easy to understand teaching materials, has made learning Mandarin easy.