...currently a freshman at Rice University. I double majoring in Managerial Studies and Cognitive Sciences. I have helped students with ESL and I currently work with refugee students at a local middle school. I am most passionate about business and psychology, because of the impact it has on each person's daily life. I have had a lot of experience with standardized testing, specifically ACT and IB testing as I just completed my tests recently. In...
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...my Chinese language education at Western Kentucky University and North China Electric Power Institute in Beijing, receiving my diploma from WKU. I completed my degree with a double major in Chinese and English studies. I have both tutored in and taught ESL as my job, giving me an excellent grasp on the struggles of learning English from a first language and second language speaker. I have been teaching for approximately 2 years now. I specialize...
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I have experience of teaching Chinese to foreign children. I had tutored a 7 year old Danish girl for a year and a half. Before I graduated from university, I did an internship at a secondary school in Thailand. I learned how to assist a Thai teacher teaching Chinese.
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...a graduate of Vanderbilt University. I received my Bachelor of Arts with double majors in Anthropology and an interdisciplinary major called Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS). I went on to attain a Master of Arts degree in MHS. I am an immigrant from China and speaks Mandarin as my first language. I am in the process of applying to law schools. I am a firm believer of the importance of a good mentor to the...
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...the students and guide them so the outcome was a successful event for all attending. In the spring of 2007, I began working in a full-time managerial position for the University Dining Services at UW-L. I managed the employment budget and payroll, prepared employee work schedules and planned special events in the main dining room. One of the most rewarding aspects of this position, however, was the opportunity to hire, train and supervise international and...
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I am a dental school student at NYU. I grew up in Taiwan for 15 yrs, and I spent the last 10 years in USA. I'm very fun to interact with, please don't hesitate to talk to me. ... Teach him/her the approaches to that subject. Each subject requires a different approach.... Find an interesting way for student to learn the material.... The concept is always the most important part in math. In terms of language,...
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...by the belief that learning ought to be engaging and evidence-based. I graduated from Berea College Cum Laude, majoring in English & Exercise Science. After Peace Corps and years working as a University professor in China, I graduated with a Master's in Medicine, majoring in Acupuncture and Tuina. I have 7 years of exeperience teaching primary through postgraduate ESL, and I also have two years of experience teaching Mandarin Chinese to foreign students in preparation...
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...native speaker and have been involved teaching Mandarin more than 15 years. I can teach you how to read/write (traditional character particularly) and practical conversation in all areas. I can teach students from new beginners or advanced learners. I can fully adapt the culture into language learning since I have lived in Taiwan more than 20 years before I settle down in US. I also know Taiwanese Dialect as well and be able to teach...
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...an undergraduate student at Harvard University studying neuroscience on the pre-med track. I graduated from The Spence School in New York City where I ran Peer Tutors; I administered communication between students, teachers, and parents, in addition to tutoring a middle schooler in math once a week. For the past three years I worked as a research assistant at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where I studied memory distortion. I am a US Presidential...
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...experienced a variety of textbooks and language teaching methods from elementary to collegiate. I have been taught by professors that have textbooks used around the country, as well as some considered to be experts in their field including Hiroyoshi Noto, Guy Alitto, and Edward Shaughnessy. I have 3 years private tutoring experience in Chinese and Japanese language. I know more than the 2000 characters required for proficiency in reading and writing, both in Japanese and...
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...such a great pleasure to be a Varsity Tutor and help students improve to realize goals! Your time is very valuable to me, so I will break down those complex concepts for you to understand, internalize, commit to memory and score high and/or higher! I have been a teaching assistant for calculus and physics and research assistant for power system design and analysis work at the college of engineering at my graduate school. In two...
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...currently an undergraduate double majoring in Computer Science and Music at Cornell University. I enjoy working with students, and can tutor in a broad range of subjects. In my experience, I've been able to help many struggling students prepare for their standardized tests and school exams by teaching them valuable study methods and breaking down the questions until they are able to grasp a deep understanding of the subject. Not only do we make outstanding...
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...the University of Michigan and received my Master degree in International and Regional Studies. I am a Chinese native speaker and I majored in Japanese at college. Before I came to the United States, I studied at Ritsumeikan University in Japan for three years. Language learning and teaching are my passions. I am open-minded and love to communicate. I can help you to improve your Chinese listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. I also passed...
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...name is Xin Pan. I am a junior at the University of Massachusetts, studying Accounting at the Isenberg School of Management. I am planning to get my CPA license in the future. I lived in China for 15 years, and I have lived in America for 6 years. My favorite subject is Chinese, because I know that learning a new language is difficult. I want to help students learn useful language knowledge during fun tutoring...
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...name is Baoyi and you can call me Rita. I studied and graduated at The University of Texas at Austin. I am an outgoing, organized, friendly and responsible person. I am fluent in Mandarin and English, and I'd love to help more people to know and learn about Mandarin. Most people think Mandarin is hard, but I will say it is super beautiful, interesting and worth learning. I hope you are interested in it and...
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...a 21-year-old recent graduate of Rice University in Houston, TX, where I received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture! I plan on returning to school to receive my Bachelor of Architecture by 2022. In the past, I have tutored a range of students from middle school- to college-aged, in school subjects like writing, math, and science. I have tutored an eighth grade student in the ISEE, and I have tutored high school students in SAT/ACT...
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...current PhD student at Tufts University studying Applied Math, and formerly I attained my Bachelor of Science in Math at Pepperdine University. I have been tutoring math for three and a half years now, including Calculus, Differential Equations, and Algebra. I also have taken and tutored many standardized tests, including AP Calc, A-Level Math/Further Pure Math, and GRE Quantitative Analysis. In addition, as a Chinese native speaker, I'm also tutoring Chinese speaking and writing. Outside...
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University of Virginia (Pursuit of Biochemistry B.S., Sociology B.A., and Chinese Minor) Specialized tutoring in Chinese, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics.
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Students taking Mandarin Chinese 2 build on the language skills they acquired in Mandarin Chinese 1 in order to improve their fluency in the dialect and gain a more complete understanding of Mandarin Chinese-speaking cultures. The biggest challenge for many students taking Mandarin Chinese 2 turns out to be keeping their knowledge of previously learned concepts fresh and ready for active use while learning new material. Certain challenges that first appeared in Mandarin Chinese 1 may persist as obstacles that need to be continuously surmounted in more advanced coursework.
When learning new vocabulary, students are still expected to express terms in traditional Chinese characters, simplified Chinese characters, and Pinyin Romanization, as well as pronounce vocabulary using the unintuitive tonal system of Mandarin Chinese. If students struggled with any of these topics in their previous coursework, it might spell trouble for them in Mandarin Chinese 2. While it is difficult enough to expand your understanding of increasingly complex grammatical constructions, learn additional vocabulary, and master new social details, it is the cumulative nature of the course that often proves to be a student's most imposing challenge. Classes spend relatively little time in reviewing previous course content, and you may have a hard time figuring out exactly which concepts it would most benefit you to review. Even if you can self-identify the weak points in your understanding, mastering this content can be extremely difficult without knowledgeable assistance.
If you are looking for guidance in your course, Mandarin Chinese tutoring might be just the thing to help you streamline your studies. Whether you need help with vocabulary or a grammatical concept from your previous course, your tutor can focus on exactly the material you need to review. Your tutor can create a customized learning plan for your Mandarin Chinese 2 tutoring sessions that focuses on the material you struggle with most, saving you time and energy by not asking you to review concepts that you have already mastered. If it is your speaking skills that could use more practice, your tutor makes for an excellent conversation partner. If it is reading or writing in Mandarin Chinese that you find most confusing, your tutor can help you work through targeted practice exercises, providing feedback and answering any questions you may have about the material along the way. If you need to prepare for an exam, your tutor can help you focus on reviewing the content that it will test. No matter what your particular concerns are with your Mandarin Chinese 2 course, your tutor can help you address them.
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Recent Mandarin Chinese 2 Tutoring Session Notes
We worked on Lesson 13 Asking Directions. Giving directions is one of the hardest topics in learning Mandarin. We worked on direction and location words. Also, we practiced comparative sentences, special Mandarin word usages such as "dao," "guo", and resultative complements.
I did needs analysis at the beginning including at the student's current level, Chinese learning background, expectation from this tutoring session, and the general schedule to meet every week. We started some vocabulary for "family tree" as warm-up, and I left some homework for preview and extra homework. She didn't show me grades but I prepared some exercise as a quiz to see where she is. From her feedback, we decided to use her textbook as the main materials, include all language skills especially grammar and writing. We'll meet once a week for 90 minutes at 2:00pm, at the Library.
In the session, I was impressed by her Chinese proficiency. She has no difficulty understanding my questions and can express herself perfectly. We went over the grammar and practiced two sets of questions, we also had a dictation to help her review the vocabulary. I truly enjoyed working with her.
The student made a mother's day card for his mom in Chinese. He also needed help preparing for his math test tomorrow, so we reviewed the distributive, commutative, identity, and associative properties of addition and multiplication. He also completed some challenging problems using those properties and then I gave him some FOIL problems, which he figured out on his own with no teaching from me.
The student and I started off by going over common conversational phrases and trying to have a conversation in Mandarin using the question-response format. We went over "Where are you from?", "Where is the bathroom?", "What time is it?" etc. We also went over two old dialogues, one involving hobbies/going out and one involving family, in order to review old vocabulary. We finished off by going over a new dialogue which expanded the vocabulary relating to hobbies.
This is the last session and we did revision of most the vocabulary of the semester. There were at least three different kinds of vocabulary, and we made sentences or asked questions to connect them together to strengthen the usages of them as well as the recognition. With scaffolding the student could made sentences using most of the vocabulary.
