ABOUT

Born and raised in Shanghai, China, and later graduated from St. Olaf College, I have been working as a Chinese language tutor, translator, and cultural consultant in the Twin Cities for over 15 years. I have worked with students ranging in age from 4-year-old beginners to 75-year-old professionals. I have worked with students from all across the states.

I have given Chinese language lessons to more than 800 students from various schools in Minnesota including Yinghua Academy, St. Paul Academy, Breck School, the University of Minnesota, Hamline University, St. Olaf College, Concordia Language Villages, etc. My adult students range from business leaders at the Apple Store in Minneapolis to a U.S. diplomat in Taiwan, to English teachers currently working in China, to international lawyers, to a multinational newspaper owner from South Carolina.

Over the years, I have developed a consistent and effective method to help students who struggle with character memorization, tone recognition, and sentence building. My Mandarin Chinese programs include face-to-face one-on-one and small group online private lessons

In early 2016, I assisted the Minnesota Timberwolves with writing, instructing, and producing this promotional video for Karl-Anthony Towns.

The video targets Chinese audiences, and it helped Towns secure international votes to appear in the NBA All-Star Game of 2016. The fluent little actors in the video are all students with whom I have been working for years.

During the Chinese New Year of 2017, as the language consultant, I gave personalized lessons to the basketball players at the Minnesota Timberwolves.

While the Timberwolves made a special effort to reach out to the Chinese-speaking audience, I helped to facilitate and translate the interviews with Chinese-speaking students and immigrants.

You can benefit from my 15 years of experience in teaching for students of all ages. I am committed to continued learning and development for both myself and others.