In my twelfth year of italki, both teaching and studying! Now back from travel in Europe.
Teaches
English
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Chinese (Mandarin)
French
German
In my twelfth year of italki, both teaching and studying! Now back from travel in Europe.
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
From AustraliaLiving in Sydney, Australia (21:15 UTC+11:00)
About Me
italki teacher since May 24, 2013
InterestsTechTravelScienceReadingFilms & TV Series
During June and early July 2024 I was travelling in Europe, but now I am back home and back to lessons as per normal.
In our conversations anything goes! Whatever your beliefs or ideas I make no judgments, and I am always willing to discuss and belief or topic whatsoever. I am in fact a maths and computer nerd so technology and programming are common topics, but travel and the world, my world or your world, your culture and my culture, are of interest to both of us!
Me as a Teacher
Already over ten years now, and perhaps over 9000 hours of online teaching. I make liberal use of online materials, and I like englishclub.com, ABC Radio National, TED Wolfram Coursera EDX, and linguapress.com. My sessions are particularly free and subject to your wishes, needs and goals. I am equally happy to chit-chat, or address deep and troubling issues, to delve into science, grammar, technology. There is no set agenda, but I expect us to set up a basis for the coming sessions.
Intermediate to advanced students only please.
My lessons & teaching style
I study language too, so I am aware that adult language acquisition is nowhere near as rapid as that of children. In my lessons I am constantly typing to leave a record for both of us of what has been said, of corrections, of vocabulary idioms and expressions - I expect you to review the lesson dialogue, I always do.
My teaching material
PDF file
Text Documents
Audio files
Image files
Video files
Articles and news
Graphs and charts
Homework Assignments
4.9
Rating
1,247
Students
9,878
Lessons
99%
Attendance rate
99%
Response rate
4.9
Rating
1247
Students
9878
Lessons
99%
Attendance rate
99%
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English Lessons
Trial Lesson
378 lessons completed
USD 6.00+
Informal Tutoring
B1 - C2Conversation9,326 lessons completed
USD 7.50+
Package with 20% off
Computers, Programming, Maths and Science
B2 - C2Language Essentials127 lessons completed
USD 11.00+
Package with 17% off
Technical Thesis, Assignment, Essay proof-reading (on or offline)
B2 - C2Language Essentials33 lessons completed
USD 16.00
Package with 20% off
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1,707 Reviews
Fanny. D
66 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
I am really happy to resume the course with Laogui, it is always the real pleasure to learn English with him:)
Nov 15, 2021
Thien Thanh
26 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
Thank you for the lesson! Lao Gui wrote down most of the words he were speaking to me, which made the learning process easy. He also suggested different techniques to help me improve my speaking skills. I've learned a lot today.
Jun 9, 2016
Hongxiao
5 English lessons
He is a guiding- style teacher.I‘m already excited for the next class.
Feb 19, 2025
Kai
10 English lessons
Teacher’s pick
so excited to have Laogui as my teacher again.
Nov 8, 2021
CN5316
1 English lesson
It’s a good teacher, his voice like my grandfather, very gently, but have some noise in the itaki voice