

Improve your Cantonese with a native tutor poetry (only for intermediate learners)
#Cantonese translator chicago free#
*You are free to choose materials in fully English, traditional, or simplified Chinese characters.

*Lessons and handouts are tailored based on your interests. Note: There are five phonetic systems for Cantonese and I use Jyutping with adult learners. 👍 Colloquial Cantonese - The Complete Course for Beginners 👍 Chinese Made Easy - a hardworking adult can finish the first book in three months I usually use these books for teaching Mandarin:

Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Australian, Canadian, and Indonesian. I have experience teaching a range of nationalities and have a great understanding of their differing needs e.g. Lessons will be 1-on-1 and Google meet lessons are available. I'm happy to meet in the North Shore area and CBD. I am mainly working as a commercial translator and interpreter and have six years of experience teaching Chinese to kids, college students, working adults, and students with hearing impairment. Currently an AUSIT (Australian Institute of Interpreters & Translators) member and an academic tutor at University of Sydney. *Giving feedback to your recordings or writing over WhatsApp on weekdays is part of the service. *Fortnightly lessons aren't available and won't work *An hour lesson per week is available for online classes and those I teach in the city. *Please chat with me and confirm availability before making a payment!!! Improve your Cantonese with a native teacher Note: during these troubling Covid times, I am providing tutoring by Zoom for HK$300/hr. Please inquire for details.Ĭome language exchange with Iris! I look forward to working with you soon! :P I believe that what I am doing is creating a better world and a better HK with love, hope, fairness and happiness. Finally, he can be brave to apply for governmental positions which require Cantonese fluency.īesides, I am also a collaborator of Translate For Her-THEM and HKSKH Lady MacLehose Center for voluntary language education in order to help EM people from underprivileged class better integrate into HK society. Right now, Charlie becomes “a real HongKonger”. More importantly, he can have a better presentation in Cantonese in his new workplace in the field of financial services. After six months, he could even use popular idioms like local young people.

For his career prospect, he decided to spend at least twice a week with me. He had been living in HK for 5 years and was still waiting for his permanent residency. When I met him, Charlie was still a teacher for master degree in Public Policy in CityU. Charlie Zhao, who comes from Beijing, is one of my students. In my experience, listening a lot of pop songs is a key to learn languages.ĭr. Since I needed to learn the scripts from all over the world when I was a freshman, I listened many songs on YouTube to kill boredom. More to tell, I got an A+ in the subject of Written Communications, which was about reading all the books of Professor Zhou Youguang. My favorite song is Ekin Cheng’s Automatic Victory Let’s Fight (Theme Song of Digimons). My favorite character is Bei Ka Chiu, Cantonese Pikachu, who was killed by Mandarin Pikachu in 2016. My favorite dramas are Lizzy McGuire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lily Franky’s Tokyo Tower. Children, Westlife, Linkin Park, Yui, Marie Digby, Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Bianca Wu, Christina Aguilera, Hilary Duff, Michelle Branch, Esmee Denters and Shahzoda. My favorite singers are Leslie Cheung, Jay Chou, Beyond, Mr. My interests are reading, writing, drawing Pastel Nagomi Art, making beeswax flowers, playing with candles and preserved flowers, playing with origami, listening to pop songs, singing, hiking, cycling, watching martial art movies and Marvel Movies. My favorite authors are Charles Dickens, Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Bruce Lee, Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, Zhou Youguang, Roald Dahl, Roger Hargreaves and J.K Rowling. Right now, I am also a co-organizer of a digital salon on Discord. As a language lover, I can speak Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Japanese and some Urdu. My students are from America, Britain, China, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, The Philippines, Thailand, Iran, India, Pakistan and more. Learners from kids to adults also love my classes. My academic interests are Speech Therapy and Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Besides, I have a good connection with National Museum of Beijing and Zhejiang University. I am a native speaker of Cantonese in Hong Kong, able to help you in all aspects of learning and perfecting Cantonese.Īfter graduation from PolyU majoring in Bilingual Studies, I started my freelance language teaching career. Hi, learners! I am a certified TCSOL Chinese teacher.
