Tutor profile: Joe M.

I am currently a Master's degree student in in English-Chinese translation and interpretation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. I have HSK 6 certification and in 2016 won first place in the Chinese Bridge Speech Contest. I lived and studied in Beijing from 2015-2016. I also received a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Boston and taught elementary and middle school English for two years at the Kwong Kow School in Boston Chinatown.

I have experience tutoring Chinese students in English and tutoring American students in Chinese. While living in Beijing, I taught at a private ESL school, and I have worked with students as young as eight up to adult learners. My unique advantage is that I learned Mandarin later in life, and I understand the specific challenges that English speakers and adult learners face when learning Chinese.