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Yan Zi
Chinese (Mandarin)
Native
English

From China

Living in Harbin, China

Hi everyone! My name is Yan Zi 燕子. I’m a native Chinese speaker and now living in Harbin where has the most standard mandarin pronunciation. Singing, dancing and cooking are always my prior choice in free time and I also have started doing yoga everyday since 4 months ago. I want to make everyday meaningful so that although 51 years old, I still have a high requirement to my body shape and I am learning English everyday now. My character: passionate, friendly and patient. Look forward to making friends on italki! As a Chinese tutor, I have 100% confidence to teach you the most standard Chinese mandarin pronunciation. I will also teach you many phrases, idioms and proverbs based on different topics. I’m willing to introduce Chinese traditional culture, historic attractions and some delicious food to you. Meanwhile, to know how to get along with Chinese and to be properly in some specific situation are also very important. I'd like to share my experience with you. I believe you’ll love China. My lessons focus on conversation practice. In my opinion, the grammar of Chinese isn’t very logical and the best way to speak Chinese like a native speaker is to talk with Chinese and to use the correct sentence structure again and again. Honestly, I’m not very good at speaking English now so to teach a beginner is really difficult for me. I believe you can get what you want in my lesson. Look forward to our lesson!
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Trial Lesson
126 lessons completed
USD 6.00+
Conversation Practice 中文对话练习
A2-C2
Conversation
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For beginners·125
Student Thomas Marlowe
Thomas Marlowe
51 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
Teacher’s pick
今天的课非常好。很高兴可以给老师看一下我在大连和丹东拍了照片。我能修理手机的话下次想给老师看其他的照片。
Student Tony
Tony
261 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
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I have been learning Chinese with Yanzi for over two years. She has been helping me improve my reading and writing skills. Every week we read articles that I pick and she helps me with my pronunciation. She is enthusiastic and her lessons are enjoyable. I will continue to take her lessons. 我觉得曲老师是很好的老师。她帮助我学习中文。现在我可以读新闻的文章。我也可以写自己的文章。每周我跟老师读一个文章。老师也改变我读错的发音。我很喜欢老师的课。
Student Brendan Cunnie
Brendan Cunnie
8 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
Excellent! Very very patient. I really struggle with the ü sound of 去, and she's very patient repeating it with me. 去, 去, 去. (I'm still not there yet.) I asked her to interrupt me quickly and bluntly when I get the tones wrong, and she's excellent at working the way I like to work.
Ernst
189 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
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很棒的一堂课,老师聊天总是很有趣。我们已经学过李白的一些诗了。 以我的中文水平,可能不适合学李白的诗。这些字往往是陌生的,不为人所知的。另一个问题是,这些词不是由两个字组成的,而是由一个字组成的。 然而,这给你提供了一个线索,让你了解中文是如何构成的,以便比我所知道的任何其他语言都更准确地表达情感。
Student Brendan Cunnie
Brendan Cunnie
8 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
Excellent. Very patient. And very good about correcting my tones and pronunciation.
Student Brendan Cunnie
Brendan Cunnie
8 Chinese (Mandarin) lessons
Terrific. Great teacher. Excellent listener. I have a specific textbook (from Hunter College) that I need to follow. And Yan Zi is wonderfully flexible, and is amazingly skilled at teaching from a new text in my textbook, which she had never seen before. I also asked her to interrupt me bluntly and correct me when I make mistakes. And Yan Zi listens well and teaches the way I want to learn. She patiently repeats 热, 热, 热. (Each time I get a bit closer to the correct pronunciation) and other words I mangle. In summary, she's always prepared with her own dialog. But she's such a great listener and effortlessly shifts gears if you have your own textbook or other materials you want to follow.