Experienced Private Mandarin Tutor
Meet Katya, Your Expert Private Tutor for Mandarin Chinese.
I am a highly experienced private tutor based in the United States with over five years of experience teaching Mandarin Chinese. With over 18 years of specializing in Chinese language and culture, I have helped many students improve their linguistic and cultural knowledge. I have a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Anthropology and a master’s degree in International Development. I am currently pursuing a Ph. D. and teach Chinese at the university.
I have lived, worked, and studied throughout China, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Central Asia. I have worked as a Chinese language tutor and a conversational Chinese teacher for over five years. I am proficient in English, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, and Mongolian. I am also proficient in Spanish and Turkish. I speak standard Mandarin and Northeastern Mandarin. Learning and teaching languages are my greatest passion! I am currently learning Turkish!
My goal is to help make learning Mandarin fun and approachable.
My goal is to engage students with fun and interactive language lessons filled with cultural immersion and knowledge. My studies and research in anthropology taught me the importance of interacting with culture and philosophy while learning a foreign language.
As a non-native speaker of Chinese, I understand what my students are going through as they learn and progress in Chinese. Through my 18+ years of studying Chinese, I have become very familiar with how to unpack the Chinese language clearly and concisely and the cultural and linguistic idiosyncrasies of the language.
My ultimate goal and priority is to ensure that my students have fun and enjoy the process of learning this beautiful language!