Today I gave a small presentation of German expressionism 表現主義 which was fun to share with Tina. We also talked briefly about board games, a shared hobby. Back to the workbook, Tina explained the difference between 個個 and 每一個 etc. which was insightful. Then some 聽力 to practice the use of 曾經. Very versatile as always!

Fantastic as usual, today we learned our third radical, Tina makes that really fun, and draws pictures of how the characters came to be, I find that super interesting. When it comes to speaking, we learn a lot of everyday words, and after only 3-4 weeks of Chinese with Tina, I can finally catch some of the words people say to me in my everyday life, and I’m not afraid to use Chinese in restaurants etc. Xie xieeee laoshi :))

Tina is an excellent teacher. 非常感谢你帮助我，Tina！

老師超厲害喔。真的認識我耶，哈哈…我跟老師說之前，她已經知道我一定有怎麼樣的問題，已經知道我發現特別難的部分是什麼，哈哈。很棒耶！

I had a great trial lesson with Tina. She is very encouraging and patient, and explained new vocabulary using basic mandarin which was very helpful. Her teaching style is very flexible, and the structure of the class is tailored to her students which is great!

Tina is an extraordinary teacher with whom I had the pleasure of learning Chinese regularly for the last year and a half. She is always very prepared for class. We are working through a book called 當代中文課程, but she does not blindly follow the book but instead adds a lot of interesting supplementary material to our lessons, which give me more (cultural) insights on the topic we are currently working on. For example, right now we are working on the topic of „Modern Families“, and Tina prepared a lot of additional materials surrounding this topic: we read a text about work place discrimination of mothers and women in general, we discussed about the differences of work place discrimination in Germany (my country) and Taiwan, Tina also prepared several dialogues and a video for listening comprehension etc… she puts so much effort and love for detail into her lessons, it’s incredible. I have learned so much from her in our many lessons! Thank you so much for everything so far. 🙏