Kin Nam Leong

Hi, my name is Kinnam, or people usually call my Stone.
I just graduated from my masters degree and working at Carlisle, and would make use of my language skills to teach Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), Japanese, or English.

I believe learning a language is not only about understanding the grammar and strokes and pronunciation, it is much more about getting used to its "atmosphere" , intuitively knowing when to use what.

After learning the basic "know-hows", my style emphasizes on finding the language in daily life, and letting the student realize the opportunities that they can learn from, instead of just learning through me for an hour per week. For example, my "homework" would not be too much of reading or writing the language, but to record maybe 10 encounters of the language (as simple as words) during the week, in what situation did the student saw, hear, or realized it and does it relate to the previous impressions of other terms. I will then extend my teaching on them, expanding the situations where such words may appear, and encourage students to find them in other places or events.

Learning, in my opinion, is not a static input of knowledge from the tutor to the student, it should be an interactive process where the initiative should be taken by the student and the tutor helps to deepen and elaborate on it.

If you really want to learn the language, then this method will be very effective. However I can also adopt a more traditional teaching style if you prefer.