📣Kid/AP/Adult-Lydia

I’ve now had more than 120 lessons with Lydia over a 3 to 4 year period. If you are interested in Chinese, you won’t find a better teacher, here is why. Lydia 是一位非常友好和耐心的老师，能够适应我的学习方式。 每节课都很有趣，因为我们讨论很多不同的话题。 ‘‘论很多不同的话题’’ This is what makes our lessons very rewarding. It takes a very special teacher to help a student talk about many different things and not just follow a book. Lydia gave me the confidence to speak, to use what is available to me, to express myself in Chinese. Lydia 用许多不同的材料让我们的课程变得有趣，例如视频、音乐和许多不同的图片。 Lydia 的普通话非常清晰，是标准的普通话 Lydia 非常了解我的中文水平，可以用我能听懂的方式说话，而且在每堂课中都会添加新的词汇和句子。就这样，我的普通话水平一步步提高。 Nothing encourages a student more than the feeling that you are making progress and Lydia’s lessons give me that feeling. I always go away feeling ‘’我会说中文’’ :-) 我很清楚，Lydia 的风格适合各种学生，年轻的、年长的、初学者的和高级的学生。 Lydia 是一位聪明而有趣的老师，她慷慨地提供知识和时间。 This why I recommend Lydia for anyone who wants to study Chinese.

I've been going through HSK material with Lydia and I feel like I'm becoming more confident speaking every day! Before I started taking lessons I felt that I had trouble recalling vocabulary, but with these lessons I'm having this issue less and less. Our lessons are usually a mixture of speaking about the real world and reviewing HSK material. Our conversational practice will often introduce me to practical vocabulary that isn't necessarily in the textbook, which has been very helpful for giving me the ability to express myself more naturally. At the same time our detailed study of the HSK material has made me feel like I understand it far better than when I tried to study it on my own. I find that Lydia makes our lessons fun and it has kept me more consistent with studying than I would without these lessons. Thank you Lydia!!

I have done over 100 lessons with Lydia and even when I reach my desired fluency level probably will never stop. You will not find a better teacher than her. Somehow she always knows exactly where I'm at in my learning and how to push me. She always uses vocabulary and sentence structure within my skill set. She remembers everything so every lesson is perfectly tailored just for me, things I like to discuss, current happenings, pets, food, etc. Somehow she does this for all her students. My world has opened up since learning chinese, I have made chinese friends and attended cultural events and my world is so much better having done so. It's so great being able to have conversations in chinese that I thought I'd never be able to do. None of this would have been possible without Lydia. If you are lucky enough to be her student and work hard she will help you achieve whatever your fluency goal is.

Something amazing happened with my son’s Chinese last week that really surprised us! We walked into a Chinese restaurant, and he not only ordered our food entirely in Chinese but even struck up a conversation with some of the other Chinese speakers there! We couldn’t be prouder. He said he felt confident thanks to Lydia’s lessons, where they cover all sorts of topics using fun videos, pictures, and structured practice. Now, he’s also getting more interested in reading Chinese characters. He loves how Lydia uses pictures, stories, and games to make characters stick. We’re so grateful to have Lydia as his teacher and couldn’t recommend her more!

My kids really enjoy speaking with Lydia - she makes it fun!

I really enjoyed my first class with Lydia, I’m very excited to continue learning with her💛