I have had many experiences with Chinese language learning neither going to Sunday school or in-house tutoring; nothing could compare with my current teacher Ms. Chien Chien. It had been the best nine weeks learning the Chinese language with her. She taught me about the Taiwanese ghost festival and introduced many different traditions, fascinating customs, and even all types of ghosts. I found it particularly interesting with the online interaction with her via the online quiz, pictures visualization, and actual physical drawings. It definitely drew plenty of interest wanting to learn more of the language and look forward to each lesson.

My first lesson with Ms. Chien Chien was particularly interesting to break the ice. Knowing that my Chinese was not very fluent, the teacher used many interactive visual effects on the screen to guide me with the understanding. She started with questions about my school, what I have learned on the day and what time it was in Australia to connect the dots to the topic she wanted to talk about in the lesson. It was really cool when I saw we could interact by drawing on my iPad screens, which did help me to understand a few vocabularies in Chinese. Throughout the lessons, Ms.Chien Chien emphasised on the things I showed the most interest in, for instance, I loved the cute fat ghost character in Chinese ghost festival lessons. At the end of each lesson, Ms. Chien Chien would come up with a ten quizzes to revise what we talked about in the lesson. I loved the buzzing sound on the multiple-choice questions and its sound effects. I sometimes had to ask my parents to help me out and we were surprised they did not know all the answers in Chinese. It was wonderful to engage my whole family and at the same time learning the language.

The online lessons made it very easy to fit into my busy schoolings, extra curriculums, and sporting events. We sometimes had lessons right after school or even perhaps on Friday nights. Ms. Chien Chien had been very accommodating and it was nice to see her on a weekly basis yet improving my Chinese language. I started to speak more confidently at home with my parents, my brother, and even to my grandparents. I now have more vocabularies in my pocket which are relevant to my daily living and applicable to my schools. Sometimes my Chinese pronunciations were not accurate, Ms. Chien Chien had always been very patient to find out what I was trying to express. I loved the time where we had our little drawing competitions where we exchanged thoughts and cultural backgrounds. My parents could see a great improvement in my conversational language skills and spoke more confidently to feel engaged.

I would highly recommend my teacher, Ms. Chien Chien, for her extreme patience with me and her joyful character to lighten my days. My mother and I loved the way how she spoke the Chinese language, it was very well articulated and yet gentle. I am very happy to be her student and look forward to continuing with our learnings.