Stephen Lau
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Stephen Lau
Community Tutor![]()
Teaches
Chinese (Cantonese)
Native
Speaks
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
Teaches
Chinese (Cantonese)
Native
Speaks
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
From Hong KongLiving in Glasgow, United Kingdom (01:18 UTC+00:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Jun 18, 2020Me as a Teacher
I have 2 years of experience teaching Cantonese. I helped expats and exchange students to improve their Cantonese pronunciation and grammar.
After taking my classes, they are more confident to communicate with their local friends and colleagues now. A few of my students only knew "nei5 hou2" at the beginning, but now they can talk to their neighbors, their taxi drivers and hotel receptionists entirely in Cantonese.
When it comes to teaching Cantonese, I'm always patient, supportive and encouraging.My lessons & teaching style
Reading, writing, speaking and listening are the four fundamental skills of language learning.
I believe you could learn how to read or write Cantonese from textbooks and online resources, but you have to actually start speaking to achieve fluency. I usually suggest my students to focus on speaking in the class. I will help you improve the pronunciation, grammar and fluency. I can use Jyutping or Yale romanization system if you like.
Sometimes I like my students to write a story in Cantonese. They can use new vocab and sentence structures. You will see how much you have improved when your stories become longer and more complicated over time.
Good luck on your journey.My teaching material
- Text Documents
- Quizzes
- PDF file
5.0
Rating
66
Students
756
Lessons
100%
Attendance rate
100%
Response rate
Chinese (Cantonese) Lessons
Trial Lesson
30 lessons completed
USD 5.00+
Conversation Practice
A1 - C2Conversation726 lessons completed
USD 10.00
Availability
Based on your timezone (UTC+00:00)
104 Reviews
Luna
37 Chinese (Cantonese) lessons
Teacher’s pick
Stephen is super nice, attentive and delightful to talk with. He asks good questions to encourage me to speak, taking notes in the meantime, and after I finished my sentences, he lets me know my good choice of words and mistakes I made. He also elaborates certain points to me so that I know how to use a word in various contexts. Thank you Stephen for the fantastic first lesson and I will definitely book another one!
Jul 5, 2020
Adam N.
6 Chinese (Cantonese) lessons
Teacher’s pick
Stephen is incredibly patient and supportive. In our first lesson, he helped me learn new words and especially helped me with pronunciation (which is the most important thing in Cantonese!). I felt safe to make mistakes and learn from them with his help. I almost don't want to recommend him to anyone because I'm afraid he will get so popular with new students - he's so good! I'm sure he will become a favorite teacher of any student who takes his classes.
Jun 21, 2020
Tracy Nguyen
29 Chinese (Cantonese) lessons
Stephen rocks!
Nov 24, 2024
Steven
91 Chinese (Cantonese) lessons
Teacher’s pick
Very impressed with my first lesson with Stephen. He is professional, encouraging and a HK native speaker which is quite different from the other Cantonese teachers on this platform. If you want to learn HK slang and sound like a native HK speaker, it is quite important to learn from a HK native speaker in my opinion as there are certain terms that are used in HK but not Guangzhou.
Jul 4, 2020
Tracy Nguyen
29 Chinese (Cantonese) lessons
Stephen is a fantastic teacher. Our lessons are casual that I feel relaxed and not afraid to make mistakes and structured enough that I continue to challenge myself. I highly recommend Stephen if you want to learn how to speak like a native.
Feb 23, 2025
Tracy Nguyen
29 Chinese (Cantonese) lessons
Stephen is the best!
Nov 16, 2024
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