I am here to help you get through any standardized testing roadblocks that are preventing you from getting where you want to be in life, as well as to help you achieve greater knowledge and skill purely for your own value. I specialize in reading, writing, Mandarin, and Spanish, and I am happy to work with any skill level.
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...love being a tutor! I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2015 with degrees in Economics and Political Science. I spent most of 2015-2016 travelling around the world. I have been to over twenty countries and four continents. My goal is to visit as many as I can! I am willing to tutor a variety of subjects to a variety of students. This includes test prep for both ACT/SAT and LSAT!... I encourage my students...
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I enjoy helping someone to get where he/she wants to or needs to go. I believe everyone is unique; therefore there isn't just one method in dong anything. Everyone is motivated by something. It is just a matter of finding what that motivation is. ... Find out the root of the problem and work to eradicate that. Not everyone has the same problem; therefore, one cannot use the same method to teach or to learn.... Discover...
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...year as an active teaching assistant (personalized tutoring and lab instruction), I hope to continue my involvement with tutoring at Varsity Tutors! I've had extensive experience with Speech and Debate throughout high school, which not only helped me with my communication skills but also taught me how to be an organized and analytical student. Despite having a fierce passion for debating, I am known by my peers as always being calm, cool, and collected. I...
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Hi! I'm a freshman at Princeton University from Greenwich, CT. I'm currently pursuing a degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, with a certificate in Computer Science. I'm also fluent in Chinese, and currently taking a heritage speaker's Chinese class here at Princeton. I'm more than happy to help you with any math/science/Chinese questions!
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...have worked in Shanghai for about 5 years before moving back to San Francisco recently. I've tutored mainly middle/high-school students in Chinese or ESL in the home or at summer camps, but I would also love to work with adults or much younger children. It's never too early to start! I hold a bachelor of science in economics and bachelor or arts in comparative area studies from Duke University, with a minor in Chinese. I...
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...his M.S.Ed. in Elementary Education from PennGSE in Philadelphia, PA. Self-motivated, creative, and passionate young professional seeking to learn and create innovative and transformative learning technologies for the modern user. Inquisitive and hard-working educator with strong technical and writing skills. Classroom practitioner with diverse interests in education technology, social media platforms, and instructional design. Currently teaches upper elementary math in a South Philadelphia Charter School. Extensive experience with elementary math curricula, teaching in summer, enrichment...
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Hi, I'm the philosopher they call Andrew! You are most very definitely welcome to come to me with any school questions, but be warned: there's a good chance we'll soon be figuring out the meaning of life...
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...has taken me from studying crows’ ability to recognize human faces here in Seattle to researching critically endangered monkeys and dolphins in picturesque rural China. I am excited to encourage my students to become confident in their areas of study so they too can pave the academic avenues to follow their dreams. I tutor Writing, English as a second language, Mandarin, and biology. Instilling confidence in my students is my top priority and I believe...
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I am a current MBA student at the Yale School of Management who will also be attending UCLA School of Law post-MBA. I've also enjoyed taking standardized tests and "cracking" their code; so I love getting to continue to work on this with my students.
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...I have spent my time finishing premed requirements for my future applications to medical school, visiting my family in Italy, and privately tutoring students in New York City high schools. Having been raised in New York City myself, I have first-hand experience with the rigorous academic curriculums and standardized tests with which many New York City students are challenged. I feel passionate about imparting the academic knowledge and advice that I have cultivated during my...
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...started at an entry level job and held a senior management position when I retired. I have experiences in full ranges of accounting functions and business operation. Among all those experiences I appreciate the most is the opportunities to coach and mentor my staff. This led me to pursue a teaching position at a community college where I taught financial accounting for a semester. Even though I was working full-time at the time, I thoroughly...
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...I take pride in "seeing" my students accomplish the goals we set out to achieve. I have many years of tutoring experience and have assisted in their studies. My students have fun while learning a difficult new language. Because of my very own experience in learning English when I came to America, I am able to relate to my students' struggle in learning Chinese Mandarin. I am unique and a great tutor because I CARE!
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...finish my B.A. degree, I both taught and tutored for after-school centers in Taiwan working with children from a young elementary level up to high school and even college students. My other position was as an education consultant for university applications where I taught advanced writing workshops to working professionals. Through my editing and consulting services, I have helped my clients gain entrance to elite US institutions such as Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania,...
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My goal is to promote the language skills and understanding of the Chinese culture for Americans who are interested in Mandarin Chinese. Using typical Pin-Yin system and my unique teaching tools for guidance, you will soon discover that you can communicate in Mandarin Chinese and the ability of self improvement. That is your take away!
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...Psychology. Through the classes I took, I became interested in learning and motivation. I believe that education is extremely important, but learning should also be fun! My approach to tutoring involves a lot of communication and listening I try to figure out what the student understands and what the student needs help with. I hope to be able to inspire my students and help their academics improve so that they can achieve their goals and...
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I have tutored a variety of subjects for students ranging from elementary school to college students. I love science and I am excited to share my passion with you!
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...we have different goals and dreams. What I like about tutoring is that you can learn more about how your subject relates to individuals. You can see growth up close, and the success of your students is a wonderful thing. That's why I like tutoring so much. When I'm not tutoring, teaching, or reading (a huge hobby of mine), I try to be outdoors. I love mountains and hiking. Since Illinois lacks mountains, I try...
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Mandarin Chinese 1 Tutoring FAQ
Mandarin Chinese 1 courses equip you with knowledge of the core fundamentals of the Mandarin dialect and prepares you for more advanced studies in the language. While this may be the first in a sequence of Mandarin classes that you are planning to take, you should not assume that it will necessarily be the easiest one. It's possible you may encounter more trouble in this class than in more advanced ones because of the initial challenges that learning Mandarin Chinese presents. Throughout the course, you will be expected to familiarize yourself with several different ways of representing Chinese text, including Pinyin Romanization, simplified characters, and traditional characters. For students who grew up speaking a language based on the Latin alphabet, this can present a large obstacle from the very first day of instruction. Additionally, students must learn to work with both hand-written and typed forms, which can cause additional stress. If this challenging subject has you down, get connected with a Mandarin Chinese 1 tutor in your area for one-on-one instruction.
Certain features of spoken Mandarin also present a bit of a learning curve. For example, Mandarin Chinese's use of four tones can create a stumbling block for new students. English makes extremely little use of tones, while Mandarin speakers rely on tone as a significant factor in determining the meaning of a spoken sentence. These initial difficulties must be surmounted before students can proceed with the main work of Mandarin Chinese 1, which is learning the core vocabulary needed to express yourself and communicate with others in the language.
Classes typically expect you to express your own opinions and back them up with evidence using vocabulary and grammatical knowledge that has been gained. They also require you to develop comprehensive understanding of cultural implications and the ability to discuss Chinese culture in the Mandarin tongue. If you are having trouble mastering the features of Mandarin Chinese or retaining all of the vocabulary that you need to memorize, one-on-one Mandarin Chinese 1 tutoring can give you the personalized help that you require to excel.
At Varsity Tutors, our educational directors connect you with a private instructor based on your individual needs. To make the process as effective as possible, your independent tutor will analyze your current Mandarin Chinese knowledge, your concerns about your class, and the teaching methods that allow you to learn best. They can then use this information to help you connect with a Mandarin Chinese 1 tutor who suits your academic profile. Your knowledgeable tutor can take stock of your Mandarin knowledge and create an individual learning plan for your Mandarin Chinese 1 tutoring sessions. This plan can focus on just the aspects of Mandarin Chinese in which it would most benefit you to improve your understanding. This way, you do not need to review material that already makes sense to you, allowing each of your tutoring sessions to be efficient and effective.
A Mandarin Chinese tutor can guide you through exercises targeting your weakest areas, answering your questions and providing feedback along the way. A tutor can even provide opportunities to practice your conversational skills and help you master the tone-based pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese terms if this aspect of the language is giving you trouble. No matter what parts of your Mandarin Chinese 1 class you are struggling with, a tutor can address these troublesome areas with targeted assistance. The Varsity Tutors live learning platform allows you to meet with a private tutor either in person or face-to-face online. This gives you the flexibility to meet with your tutor at the time and location of your choice, whether it be daytime, evenings, or even weekends, and whether it's at a local library, cafe, or in your own home.
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Recent Mandarin Chinese 1 Tutoring Session Notes
In this class, we worked on the Chinese consonants and vowels. As a singer, the student was very talented in grasping different tones, he was able to read every tone accurately. We also practiced reading more pinyin by showing some sample words. We will do more practice and introduce some characters in Chinese.
The student had a good session today. He learned his dictation words and copied two sentences containing those words. He read a passage out loud in Chinese. He checked his work and made corrections to previous workbook page and completed one additional page in his workbook.
The student and I went over the previous session's dialogue on date and time, and then we went over a new dialogue involving hobbies. We also reviewed basic sentence structures and various modifications of sentence structure, and we practiced a few grammar drills. We also discussed ways to maintain Mandarin skills, including watching movies or TV shows in Mandarin.
We mainly reviewed the characters learned in the past two weeks. I asked the students to read and recognize the characters I put on the presentation paper. The characters were about colors and common objects in real life so I also reviewed the meanings of them by asking them to connect the colors to the objects by reading the characters. We played a game in which the squares were presented in Chinese characters to improve their recognition. I also introduced a traditional Chinese food, zong zi, as today is the holiday to have that food.
I taught the student eight words (up, down, big, small, you, me, hello, goodbye) and reintroduced the word for dog. We did some charades to help memorize the new words and created very simple sentences to help her remember and contextualize the vocabulary. For example, I taught her how to say "my dog is big" and "your dog is small". We used flashcards to help teach this point, which I think helped a lot. I told her to study her flashcards and bring them to our session next week.
New monthly vocab: Last name, name, called. Chinese last names: Wang, Li, Chen, Zhang
History of Chinese last names
Vocab practice (word search)
Listening practice (online videos)
Convo practice (What is your name? What is your brother's name? Where are you from? What is your favorite Chinese food? etc.)
Character writing practice
