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Helen Tian
Chinese (Mandarin)
Native
English

From China

Living in Tianjin, China

No time slot open here. Send me a message if you 'd like a lesson. Hi there! This is Helen Tian and glad to meet you here! I'm living in Tianjin now, a city nearby Beijing. Since graduated from Beijing Language and Culture University, I have been working as a professional Chinese teacher for more than 9 years. I'm more Specialized in teaching adults, especially total beginners. I used to teach for classes in universities in Beijing for around 2 years, then switched to online lessons. There was 3 years that I taught on italki as a full-time job, and I got quite famaliar with this website as well the way to interact with students online. Later I joined an education company to produce teachimg materials for online Chinese classes. From September 2020, I returned here and became a freelance teacher again. In our class, we will follow a certain textbook and focus on appling the vocabulary and grammar in daily use, such as making conversations or explaining the situation that the expression could be used. Also, I like sharing some interesting knowledge about the characters when learning new words, like what you see in my video. Around 70% of my long-term students were total beginners when they came to me.
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Student ndpain2016
ndpain2016
404 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
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My progress with Helen over the past 4 years has been really surprising to me personally. I started from zero Chinese and I am on the verge of starting HSK-5 at this point, and as an older learner (I am approaching 60), Helen's methods and patience have been little short of amazing. As a professional translator, it gives me no end of pleasure to have started translating some quite complex materials into English. Now that I am having to analyze texts and render Chinese into legible English, I am really seeing the benefits from Helen's approach and the great foundations she has laid already. 谢谢你田老师!我很期待和你一起开始五级,有一天我会学会中文 ;-)
Joe Adorno
18 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
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I've been really enjoying my lessons with Helen so far. She's very knowledgeable, patient, and good at explaining things. She's also very good at adapting and being flexible. I have some Chinese knowledge from previous lessons which is semi-remembered/forgotten. During our lesson's she's gone off-script and away from the textbook to incorporate other words which I know and adjust the difficulty level to suit my personal needs. Lesson's with her are always one of the highlights of my day, thank you so much :)
Zoe
4 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
Helen is a patient teacher! Today we focused on practicing tones. I appreciate the in the moment feedback she provides so I can correctly pronounce words!
Maximilian
13 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
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I love that Helen always encourages me to speak more Chinese. During class we follow a textbook but we also have conversations about different topics. She also incorporates new vocabulary. I enjoy her classes a lot and I always learn something new in each class. For those of you that also study writing, Helen knows a lot about characters and how they are formed and their meaning.
温子谦
4 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
Helen 老师 is great !
温子谦
4 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
Just had my first lesson with Helen 老师 and she was really good! I'll be booking more lessons for sure