Award-Winning Mandarin Chinese Tutors in Overland Park, KS

...culture. My approach to teaching Mandarin Chinese is to start with what most Chinese teachers skip over: fundamentals. I emphasize the need to teach the fundamentals of grammar to allow an easier, clearer, and more natural progression in learning language and building new skills. I also believe that culture and language are inseparable and am especially interested in Chinese folk opera, history, and the development of language and culture over time. Since my study has...

We all learn differently. As Albert Einstein said, "Study is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think." Thomas Edison said only five percent of people think; another 10 percent think they think; and 85 percent would rather die than think. Let me help you be one of the five.... We all learn differently and at our own pace. Also, we often know more than we think we do. We just need to ask the right questions. Tutoring should be about identifying where a student is having problems, and then helping them devise their own strategies to address those problems and find answers on their own.

...initially doing private tutoring elementary and middle school students in competition math, adding ACT/SAT test preparation to my repertoire my senior year of high school. I have taken 12 AP exams, including AP Latin and what used to be AP Physics B, and can tutor them upon request; however, I prefer to focus more on tutoring test prep such as PSAT/SAT/ACT/GRE and competition math. I consider my tutoring style to be less rigid: I prefer...

...in calculus I and II, college algebra, and chemistry. I am currently a student tutor for my school TRIO Supportive Educational Services, and I am going to apply to be either a chemistry or a math teaching assistant. Also I am a student tutor for tutoring websites, and I tutored students from more than 20 classes through them. I feel great when I can help students understand the problems and help them achieve their goals....

...with students in different fields of education. In 2010, I was a TV director in Hunan Education Television,China. The program I conducted was a fun TV show which recorded children's life experiences. In 2011, I went to Hungary for an international internship, I served as a Chinese teacher in local primary school. From 2012, I have worked with College students on Chinese in University of San Francisco. I also tutored Math, Science, and Social Studies...

...teaching Chinese with non-native speakers for two years, and recently I have been teaching Chinese with little kids. I've found that before age 6, kids can quickly and correctly learn tones, and after 6 they can learn characters and strokes and better understand sentence structure. No matter what ages my students are, I like to use games and role playing to practice with them, because it's fun and applicable to real-life conversations. I like to...

Learning is the hard part, but applying what you learn... Now that's the fun part.

...simultaneously pursue my undergraduate degrees and a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies, area of specialization: China. In June 2012, I received my Master’s degree and dual majors in Economics and Chinese, while attaining a minor in Asian Humanities. I have been tutoring mathematics, economics, and Chinese since high school. Most students come to me for Chinese lessons and help with standardized test preparation. I am also experienced in teaching algebra, geometry, and calculus. I enjoy...

...to 2017, working toward a Juris Doctorate degree. I have tutored a wide range of subject areas during college, including languages (I have native fluency in Chinese and French - and have also tutored beginner to intermediate Spanish, Arabic and Russian), math (through calculus), intro micro- and macroeconomics, Statistics, and test prep (ACT, SAT, GRE, APs, and select IB subjects). I also have experience tutoring graduate students with ESL. I love getting to know my...

I am a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese. I have lived in New York for more than two years and I am currently working as a development associate for a non-profit organization. I am sufficiently qualified to teach Chinese. I spent two years working as a social worker, so I was trained to be patient, and detail-oriented.