PRIVATE CONVERSATION FOR ADVANCED CHINESE SPEAKERS

Chinese for the conversations you want to have.

You already speak Chinese well enough to discuss most things, but your wording may still sound blunter, more formal, or less certain than you intended. Bring something you want to discuss. We will speak entirely in Chinese, without turning the conversation into a grammar lesson in English.

Regular dialogue€6950 minutes
First conversation€3925 minutes
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Is this the right format for you?

A working level

  • You can tell a story or make an argument without translating each sentence in your head
  • You can read an everyday Chinese article and discuss your own view in Chinese
  • You want specific feedback on wording and tone without losing the flow of the conversation

This format may not suit you if you want

  • to start with pinyin, basic grammar, or pronunciation
  • lessons taught through English
  • to focus on HSK or another standardised exam, or simply to book unstructured conversation practice

What could we talk about for fifty minutes?

It might be a difficult client, a passage from a novel, or a custom you understand but still find strange. Something already on your mind usually leads to a better conversation than a prepared prompt.

  • Law, institutions, and the people affected by them
  • What business language leaves unsaid
  • Literature, cities, and modern China
  • Tea, its objects, and the customs around it
  • How wording and tone differ between mainland China and Taiwan
Seal-carving practice · impressions
Seal-carving practice · impressions

About Eva

Portrait of Eva Wang
Eva Wang

I’m Eva. I listen for the part of an answer that has not yet been fully expressed. I may ask you to clarify a distinction, give the example you passed over, or reconsider a word that sounds more certain than you intended. I usually wait until you have finished the thought before correcting the language.

  • Raised in Jiangnan, with Mandarin as the language of daily life
  • Lived in Taiwan for ten years; reads and writes both simplified and traditional Chinese and is familiar with differences in usage across the Strait
  • Also speaks Cantonese and Shanghainese
  • Studied law and taxation; reads literature and follows public affairs
  • Practises calligraphy and seal carving; also reads German and Austrian writers and listens to their music
  • Advanced English; TestDaF 4/4/3/4; has spent time in Vienna, Salzburg, and Berlin

What happens in fifty minutes

  1. Bring
    Bring a question, a text, or an opinion you have not quite worked out.
  2. Talk
    We stay in Chinese. I ask questions, but there is time to follow a useful detour.
  3. Review
    At the end, we return to a few places where your wording changed the meaning, tone, or degree of formality.

Start with a twenty-five-minute conversation

The first conversation is 25 minutes and costs €39. That gives us enough time to see whether the pace, subject matter, and style of feedback suit us both. Regular conversations are 50 minutes and cost €69. The booking page shows times in your time zone, and payment is made through PayPal.

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