Open Group Chinese Courses

Tina is a confident native Mandarin Chinese language trainer with 4 years’ experience, a global student, and a well-traveled teacher: she earned her bachelor’s degree in China, a master’s degree in the UK, and now lives in Canada, where she achieved business analysis certification.Tina likes nothing more than helping learners to achieve their goals while sharing her passion for Chinese culture. Between her private and school teaching career throughout the UK and Canada, she has taught Mandarin Chinese to native and non-native speakers of all levels, ages, and cultural backgrounds. More recently, she has adapted her teaching approach to encompass online training, and she especially values creating an interactive learning atmosphere with varied activities and materials to stimulate conversation and idea sharing.Tina started her professional career teaching freelance Mandarin Chinese classes in the UK. Later, she transitioned to a career at Oracle: initially, as a marketing development consultant; and, later, as a business development lead. But despite enjoying huge success, her passion for languages was too great. She has since returned to teaching, but her experience in corporate business has benefited her greatly. In addition to acquiring superb organization, team-building, and leadership skills, Tina is highly knowledgeable about several important areas of interest, including telecoms, resource management, manufacturing, retail, education, healthcare, finance, and the public sector. So, if you want to improve your Mandarin Chinese in any of these fields, Tina can adapt the course content to suit.

Marco is one of our most charismatic Chinese instructors. He loves learning about new cultures, which is what took him to pursue his Master’s in Australia. After getting his postgraduate degree in Communication Technology, Marco discovered his passion for languages and started teaching his native tongue, Mandarin Chinese.

Thanks to the analytical skills he acquired during his university studies, Marco can break down complex language aspects, like grammar, and make them simpler and more fun. This makes his lessons easy, yet motivating. If Chinese seems difficult to you, Marco will change your mind!

To design engaging classes for the whole group, he always takes into consideration his students’ preferences and learning styles. Marco will be a great match for anyone looking for exciting Chinese classes!