TutorABC Chinese

It is a good place to learn Mandrian. Their teachers are pretty good.
Got various courses for different needs.

I am planning a trip to China in a few months to conduct research and needed to learn Chinese rather quickly. I chose TutorMing after attending the free demo class they offer to all prospective students. I must unequivocally say that I made right choice.

The classes are excellent. All of the instructors are very supportive, patient and very good at helping to me to really understand the language. The curriculum and the methods TutorMing use to teach Chinese is very effective and allows for easy comprehension and retention. Besides having a live teacher 4 days per week to work with me and teach me proper pronunciation of the language, I especially benefit from being able to go back and watch the recorded video of our entire live lesson as many times as necessary to allow me to really remember the concepts learned in each class and help my retention level even more.

The entire experience so far has just been so wonderful from all of the staff who work with Tutorming to the instructors and the integrative teaching style and cuuriculum that allows for such a positive learning experience and true retention of the language.
I highly recommend Tutorming to anyone who really wants a well balanced, motivational, and easy to learn Chinese language program with live one on one instructors who reside in China.

Sincerely,
Lissa Conley

I'm 60 years old and I started Chinese so I would not feel out of place for an upcoming trip. I really wanted to learn the language and be able to communicate to the people there on my own. I am amazed at what I have learned in 1 year. I am thrilled with the availability and flexibility of classes whenever I want them. If I need a class earlier or later I schedule where I need it. You can also take the class on the go. There were times I thought the phone and tablet app was performing better than my old laptop. Out of approximately 160 classes I've had less than 10 classes where I couldn't proceed due to technical issues. Most of the time the technical issue was mine not TutorMing's. IT support is immediate and every effort is made to keep you up and running in the application. The best part of this learning method has been the consultants. My coaches have really worked on my speaking and listening skills. This process, the structure of the lesson, the interaction with the tutor, the ability to review your vocabulary and listen to a video of your past lesson is a superior learning tool. If someone asks me what I would recommend to take a language, I would say TutorMing, it's the best.

Half a year ago, rather unexpectedly a Business trip to China was scheduled. With one month to brush up my rusty Chinese, it was an almost desparate decision to give TutorMing a try.
Just now, i re-newed my subscription with a full one-year plan.
Looking at my 50 hour work week, i knew, that i would not sit down and find the energy to study Chinese by myself. Making it a habit to schedule morning classes with my first Cup of coffee however has become a very pleasant start in the day.
By now, i have recovered most of the Chinese i mastered when living there a while back and hope to feel fully confident again soon.
So far, I have been more than impressed by the whole Service Team build up around the site - not common, at least in Europe.
Also, the new app is working great for me, and i´ve switched from using my Computer to my mobile. Since then, I´ve never again experienced any technical difficulties whatsoever.
One Suggestion towards the developer would be to also give the Students the possibility to use their own web-cam. To use your Hands when learning a new language can be quite helpful ;) At the Moment it is one-way (only students can see the teachers).

A little background - I learned Greek because my husband Sotiris Plesiotis was Greek and I wanted to bring our children up to speak Greek, French because I loved it and Gaeilige (Irish) because it's my native language. English was the language of the colonising force in Ireland and I'm glad I learned it.

My PhD is in second language pedagogy, or how best to teach and learn a second language. So, I am keen on languages.:-)

Chinese? What a challenge! Especially for what I call (linguistically speaking) the mumblers of the world, the English speakers. In Chinese one must be precise with vowel sounds and then there are four tones. I love it. I found the first twenty lessons very challenging because I was inept. It was difficult for my ego.

Then the lovely, patient and very encouraging TutorMing tutors - Sunshine, Miranda, Sophie... so many, made me feel as if I might one day master their incredible linguistic code.

I am now keen and confident to keep going. This year has been difficult because my business has expanded and it has invaded my Chinese learning time. I remain keen. Thank you so much to TutorMing. I love going to Chinese restaurants here in Melbourne (Australia) and surprising people by saying "I don't eat meat but I love your vegetables".

We were looking for Mandarin Chinese lessons for our kids, but prefer for them to learn traditional Chinese characters. There are not many options for that particular combination either online or in person. But TutorMing had no problem accommodating our wishes.

They were also super flexible in letting us try out both 25min and 45min sessions. This is great, as it is so hard to predict how much stamina kids have.

We have had a total of four lessons so far, and the kids are loving the experience.

By necessity, we had an unusual amount of interactions with customer service, as we needed a few unusual changes. The biggest change was that our Chromebook was initially not supported by the app. I reported the problem, and I was blown away by how fast TutorMing's response was. It only took about four hours from my bug report and they had released a new version of the app that now fully supports Chromebooks. That's amazing! It's also really convenient, as Chromebooks are so popular with school kids these days.

I love how both for e-mail and phone customer support, I regularly get the same tech support person. This makes it easier, as I don't always have to repeat everything we talked about previously. That's so refreshing compared to the experience with most other companies. The only downside is that I can't get hold of customer support until the evening of California time. Not a big problem, but certainly something to keep in mind when reaching out for help.

We have used the TutorMind Android app, which appears to work great, and which also works fine on modern Chromebooks. At this time, TutorMing also has a Flash app (which doesn't seem to work on Chromebooks; or at least I haven't figured out how to use it) and they are in the process of switching to HTML5. Once that is done, things should work even better across even more devices. I believe there also is a iPhone app, but I have no way of testing that product.

With very professional teachers and great academic materials, TutorMing provides an excelent way to improve my Chinese comunication skills!

Best regards,
Mário Pereira

Over the years, I was looking for ways to learn Chinese. So I attended some classroom lessons and bought many audio/video books in the hope of being able to pick up the language. However, being too busy with work and family, I soon realise the travelling time to classes and the self-taught method didnt work out as I would have expected.

I was thinking to give up. Until one day while searching for Chinese classes online, I came across the TutorMing website. The demo lesson had persuaded me to sign up for a year and now I am continuing into my 2nd year of learning with TutorMing.

The great thing about TutorMing is that I can schedule the classes at a time that suits me, the lessons are tailored around my level and lessons are made available prior to the classes so I can preview them. The one-on-one classroom structure has given me the opportunity to practise my speaking skills and then finally doing the homework.

During classes, if we ever encounter any technical issues, IT department would promptly help and the customer service consultants are very responsive to any questions that I may have.

My Chinese has improved so much in terms of pronunciation, vocabularies and sentence structures. The teachers are very friendly and patient in guiding me through new words and correcting any mistakes I made. Along the way, I also pick up various Chinese cultures through communication with the teachers and from the provided text.

Overall, the flexibility of the class time arrangement together with an interactive on-line teaching platform and knowledgeable teachers make up for a great Chinese language learning experience.

I would not hesitate to recommend TutorMing to anyone who is trying to learn Mandarin Chinese.

This is a great site to learn Chinese. The price is right! That is, if you're dedicated to learning the language. Really dedicated, almost desperate.
I like the teachers, too. They do a good job pretending to like you, and are more than happy to put up with you for the short 45 minute session you get with them. They're getting paid pretty well for the tiny effort of telling you to read a small paragraph in Chinese. It takes you ten minutes to read something that they can read in 10 seconds! Happily, though, the company is still able to make a killing off of you! Ha ha ha.
Their online scheme, and their slogans of learning Chinese "from the comfort of your own home", is a great guise for cutting classroom costs that would have originally come out of their own pockets. 'Let's have them pay for their own internet access, and still pay our morbid rates for our services!'. Ingenious! Way to go, corporate!
However, make the slightest gesture to communicate with your teacher like a real person, and you will forever be cut off from the system. Don't talk about religion, the meaning of life, solutions to real world problems, opinions of cultures, history, etc. Keep your conversations bland, and chalk full of clichés and managerialism jargon. They love that. TutorMing does a superb job of keeping it 'professional', 'politically correct', and free of that blasted form of communication called human expression.
In short, when you're ready to learn Mandarin for whatever dumb reason, and if you're completely ignorant of the other resources available to you, such as switching between English and Mandarin on jw.org for free(publications available for free download in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, along with MP3 audio files, videos, the JW Library app that can display the Bible and other publications in English and Chinese simultaneously, and even the JW Language app designed to teach many languages, including Traditional and Simplified Chinese, all available free on jw.org), then sign up for lessons with TutorMing today! You won't regret it! But then again, you just might. I don't care. Do whatever you want, man.
Keep it real, my friends, and protect the manatee!
- Your boy, David Mederos-Serrano