Minnie

Second class with Minnie and I’m learning heaps. Really enjoy speaking with her and really appreciate Minnie for writing the words down during the class. That really helps me when I am reviewing my lesson and remembering the words. Thanks Minnie!

We've been having online classes with Minnie for over 3 months now. Minnie is the best language teacher I ever had - be it online or on-site. I feel very motivated after every lesson with her, because she makes me feel that I can already speak Chinese. I was starting with almost no prior knowledge, but now we mostly use Chinese throughout the class. She knows what words I already know and mostly uses these, but slowly introducing new ones. She's always speaking in Chinese first. If that fails - she tries to explain it using other Chinese words and only then - if I still can't understand it - she uses English. This immersion method is a great way to learn the language!

Minnie connects well to the readily available knowledge.

(Review for English students) First official lesson with Minnie was amazing! She was very patient with teaching me how to pronounce different sounds in Mandarin, and her powerpoint is easy to follow. She is very friendly and very easy to talk to, compared to other teachers. Thank you Minnie! I look forward to having you as a Mandarin teacher for the next few years!

Adjusting pace to allow for understanding. Involving enough existing language and new language to grow vocabulary and practice fluency level. Love the lessons

She was very engaging in trying to identify how she can help me learn how to speak Pudong-wah She suggested that using my laptop to record our future lessons. Unfortunately, iTalki is not easy to use or access on my laptop and hope they will address this in the near future