Hillary Yip 锶雅

Hillary always has prepared lessons available with lots of structure if you want that, or as in my case, I prefer having free-style conversations with occasional use of prepared materials, for example, to handle reading exercises. All in all, I really love my lessons with Hillary. She is quite awesome!

Hillary is hands-down the best teacher I've had on italki, she might even be the best teacher I've had for anything ever. Hillary's really good at keeping the conversation fun and spontaneous - even when I'm stumbling through the language - and she's helped me massively improve my comprehension, speaking and vocabulary. Hillary's fluency in English and skill at explaining concepts and meanings (in any language) is super helpful when I have more detailed questions or if I switch to English to say something. When Hillary gives homework it's always interesting, and she has great vocab and grammar write-ups for heaps of Chinese short videos - my favourite so far is about Ding Zhen's World in Tibet. Also, if I need more time, Hillary's very chill about taking an extra week or so to study and discuss the homework, which helps me get a better grasp of the vocab and structures. If you're looking for a Chinese teacher, I can't recommend Hillary enough!

Hillary does a good job introducing new vocabulary and getting me to engage and speak Cantonese as part of her lesson. Her lessons are structured and engaging. Thank you

I've been learning Chinese together with Hillary for about a year. All this time she's been an absolutely great teacher, always well-prepared, easy-going, patient and understanding, with extremely helpful personalized advice and additional materials. Every time we have a lesson, we have a lot of fun, which makes learning Chinese feel like a trip to the amusement park :D I definitely recommend her to anyone who's interested in learning this, or in fact any language! :)

Hillary is communicative and helpful. I'm a complete beginner to Cantonese and I feel like I am learning the foundations to be able to become conversationally proficient which is my goal.

Hillary was fantastic. She helped me feel comfortable (something I struggle with because I am not confident in my Chinese). There was absolutely no confusion on her end. She immediately understood exactly what I was trying to say and/or trying to ask even with my very poor Chinese. She answered all my questions, she assessed my level and helped me learn in a very natural way, all while having a couple laughs along the way. She is pleasant to talk with and she took meticulous notes for me to have. Can't wait to have more lessons with her.