About Me

Hi my friends! My name is Apple  , the teacher and founder of Apple Chinese Online!I grew up in Beijing, I am a Beijinger! I am a professional editor, a part time English translator and a part time Mandarin teacher. I have been conferred by the Ministry of Personnel P.R. China as a Certified Editor in the Publishing Specialty three years ago.

I started teaching Chinese when I was a sophomore in college. From then on I've kept it as a part time job and also as a hobby. My first student was an Australian who was an electrical engineer and worked for Nestle (China). He studied practical Chinese and a little business Chinese from me. After he finished my Chinese lessons, he mastered basic spoken Chinese to solve the common language problems in daily life in Beijing. He likes "Beijing hua" (Mandarin Chinese) very much! My second student was a guy from New York. He used to study Chinese from a tutor from "Si Chuan" (a province in south of China). During my first lesson for him, I found he has a strong "Si Chuan & American" accent. I helped him correct many pronunciation errors. I want my students to master standard Chinese pronunciation so I put my full effort forward to help them. My third student was a guy from Boston. He has mastered Pinyin and is very interested in learning Chinese characters. I used the material I translated and edited myself to teach him, the result is very good, he has mastered many basic Chinese characters and most often used Chinese words. In our lessons, we discussed the similarity between Chinese radicals' meaning and some of the English words' prefix, suffix or letter combination which has a meaning. We can see that different languages still share something meaningful. In my lessons, my students also can learn singing Chinese songs. I like singing songs so I like to teach them some Chinese classic or pop songs. Learning to sing Chinese songs and enjoying Chinese music make my lessons to them very relaxing and special. From learning the lyrics of the songs, my students have more interest in learning Chinese and also can improve Chinese skills.

At last, I want to thank my elder sister who encouraged me to set up Apple Chinese Online and my American language consultants Robert, John, Pat and some of the other friends from Sweden, Finland, Britain who used to evaluate my study materials and gave me suggestions on my work, also including teaching tool (Skype) testing.I hope you can have a happy experience of studying Chinese with me.