Private Classes

My teacher’s knowledge of Chinese is excellent, and she’s especially strong in the contextual use of terms, expressions, and idioms.  With her tuition, I’ve become much more aware of how these elements of the Chinese language have historical context and contemporary cultural and social media use that, when correctly understood, will lead to a higher level of Chinese proficiency.

Let me just add that over the last two years, since I started re-learning Chinese, I have found the CI teachers who have taught me in private classes to be excellent.  They all have their strengths, whether it is knowledge of chengyu (Hongli), clarity of grammatical explanations (Jiarui) or contextual meanings of Chinese (Rongfeng).  Quite apart from their academic and pedagogical strengths, I have found each of them to be well prepared for each lesson, committed to teaching Chinese to foreigners (and diasporan Chinese), affable as a mentor, and amenable to tailoring the teaching to my linguistic level and background.  This is my assessment as someone who was involved in language teaching for over thirty years in Oxford and Edinburgh.