| Name | Xin Z. Recommended |
|---|---|
| City | Markham, ON |
| Teaching | Mandarin Chinese, English |
| Native Language | Mandarin Chinese |
| Originally From | China |
| Working With | Kids (8y+), Youth, Adults, Groups |
| Levels I Teach | Beginner, Intermediate |
| Lessons Take Place | Online |
| Hourly Rate | C$30 |
700 hours of Mandarin lessons with 10 students have been delivered through face-to-face and Zoom teaching since 2019. Mandarin is my first language. The TEFL program (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) has helped me to understand Mandarin linguistically and profoundly developed my teaching profession after five years of teaching. I am teaching English as well. English is not my mother tongue, I have passed TEFL certificate and I have voluntarily taught many students since 10 years ago. I have helped Chinese students to prepare their final examination in middle school and high school to get significant higher marks in English. Welcome to join in the first-hour free trial lesson through Zoom meeting. I commit my teaching and I expect you to commit your learning too. Please notify miss attendance prior to 24 hours.
Shanxi Commerce School - China Mainland.
TEFL Teaching English as a Foreign Language -Seneca College of Canada.
Zhongwen 中文 12 books are my main material to teach Mandarin. For a beginner, book 1, 2 and 3, 36 classes will learn 450 characters, 160 words, 30 sentence patterns in 62 lessons (62 hours teaching), they are the basic Mandarin. One and half year, one lesson a week, a student can achieve his or her basic Mandarin goal in speaking and listening and reading and writing.
I teach Pinyin accurately, 2 hours lesson needs.
I teach characters, starting with Pictogram, with hand posture or quick hand-drawing to help student to remember it. I also introduce a lot of etymologies to help student to understand the sources and provoke interest.
I teach them to use it right way in their real life. For example, when we learn number, I will ask student to tell me what shoe size they wear. When I teach from here to there, I will ask student to answer my questions " we have learned Mandarin from class one to class ten." many times. Each lesson I will have a focus point words or sentences and we hit it through the lessons.
I teach them systematically work with me in each lesson. When we are in a dialogue practice, students know we are in a role-playing activities and students quickly enter his or her role. When we are in a recite session, student voluntarily know the goal to recite is accurate and fast. Students recite with my stopwatch to challenge themselves. They are happy when they achieve the fastest time record.
Although English is not my mother tongue, I have been voluntarily teaching 6 family students to get amazing high marks in their high school and middle school final examination. They scanned their training material and sent them to me. I have using the material in many different ways. I could use it to practice pronunciation, and I could choose one short sentence to recite, and I could use one paragraph to read aloud to practice their tongue. I understand language linguistically, and I helped them to learn smartly.
Motivation is very important; individual attention is a key for tutoring; reading aloud practices flexibility and adaptability; google image searching is an efficient way to learn Mandarin characters; nurturing Chinese culture passion for students is an important way to encouragement in language learning; encouraging students is always good for learning.
I am flexible and easy to adapt to the student's schedules. I am sorry I am not available on Sunday because I am loving to worship Jesus, my Lord, on Sunday.
Remote and virtual online Zoom meeting
