Sylvia G

Hi friend, I'm Sylvia.

✔️A native speaker for Mandarin and Cantonese.

✔️ Worked with people from all around the world 10+ years, accumulating a lot of down-to-earth Business Chinese teaching experience, I totally understand your difficulties and thinking patterns;

✔️ Majored Business English and got Certificate for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Language

✔️ Passion for traveling, reading and staying up to date with current affairs and living a plant-based lifestyle.

✔️ Customize the most simplest, easiest and interesting ways for you, by creating a super real-life situations to learn

✔️ Building confident and enjoyable classroom for you, encourage and train you to make your own sentences that can be used to communicate in your daily life

✔️ 50% of our lesson, you will learn new knowledge including vocabulary, expressions, and grammar, culture etc, another 50% we will practice. 80% of time we speak in your target language, adopting topics for you.

✔️ After class, I will summarize your performance, send feedback

✔️ Should I learn Mandarin or Cantonese?

Not gonna lie, Mandarin and Cantonese are both difficult for native English speaker. But Mandarin is slightly easier because it has four lexical tones( compare to six in Cantonese ) and there are way more resources to support Mandarin learning than that for Cantonese.

✔️How should I prepare for the sessions?

I will send you a personalized syllabus once you have set up a consistent weekly schedule with me. Then I will send you materials before each session. There's no need for you to preview or study them before hand. But I found my students usually learn better if the print out the materials and make notes on them during the session.

✔️How long does it take to acquire the language?

There really is no definite answer for this question. It all depends on each student's aptitude and pace. As long as you don't quit on me, I will be there with you every step of the way.

✔️How often do you conduct your sessions?

This depends on your availability and your budget. The key for language learning is immersion, meaning the more exposure you have to the target language, the better and faster you learn. That being said, most of my students meet with me once or twice a week.