Every lesson with me starts with a conversation, not a test. I want to know why you're learning Chinese — travel, work, exams, family, or simply wanting to order food and chat with confidence — because a lesson built around a phrase you'll actually use sticks far better than one built around a textbook page.
A typical 60-minute lesson runs in three parts. We open with tones and pronunciation, alw...
Every lesson with me starts with a conversation, not a test. I want to know why you're learning Chinese — travel, work, exams, family, or simply wanting to order food and chat with confidence — because a lesson built around a phrase you'll actually use sticks far better than one built around a textbook page.
A typical 60-minute lesson runs in three parts. We open with tones and pronunciation, always. I correct them early and gently, because tones fixed later are much harder than tones learned right the first time. Then we work on the language itself? — new vocabulary and sentence patterns, always inside a real situation rather than as isolated words. Finally, you speak for at least half the lesson. You will make mistakes in every single class, and that is exactly the point: the goal is not a flawless sentence, it's a sentence that actually comes out of your mouth.
Characters are taught through patterns and radicals, not memorised one at a time, and I schedule review before you forget rather than after — that's the psychology of learning behind how I plan.
I've taught one-to-one since 2023, and I've never missed a session I committed to.
Chinese will not feel impossible forever. My job is to make sure you notice the day it stops feeling impossible.