When I first signed up for live Mandarin Chinese classes last year, I quickly found that it didn't work for me. The pace of the lessons...

I think I've just experienced how a lot of my students must feel "normally", but it's been magnified due to lockdown. How do I know when...

When I turned up to my first lesson, I was using (I'm ashamed to say) a hand-made notebook constructed from pieces of rough paper stapled...

LESSON 1: It takes me longer than I'd anticipated to "settle in" for my lessons... Although I'm not very good at Chinese, I do generally...

How many lecturers have had the chance to be a student, learning remotely, during the COVID-19 pandemic? I feel very lucky! I started my...