Jake Harrison

I am from a small—but very cool—English city called Newcastle upon Tyne, and I am extremely passionate about learning and sharing languages. I try to make this enjoyable and laid-back while helping you to improve and achieve your language learning goals. I am interested in philosophy, psychology, history, culture, and Mandarin Chinese. Using this foreign language to study, work, and socialise has been incredibly rewarding, so I would love to help you work on your foreign language too!

• Teaches in a friendly and conversational style.
• Gives you a lot of time to practise speaking.
• Offers useful sentences, vocabulary, and corrections during the class.
• Listens carefully and helps you improve your pronunciation.
• Leaves time for questions and reviewing what we have learned.
• 如果你是中文母語者，也歡迎使用中文來提問喔！

We can follow your own study plan or you can hand the lesson plan over to me and I will prepare suitable topics and materials for us.

Since 2016, I have been involved with foreign language education in quite a few different roles. I have designed and taught various online courses, and I have also offered private tutoring tailored to students' learning preferences and goals. Previous students, from a range of countries, have included beginners, intermediate learners, and fluent speakers, and they have been of all different ages, including children, teenagers, young adults, and older adults. As a language teacher, I have met a lot of really cool people and learned so much about other places, and it has been an incredible experience to be a part of so many students' language learning journeys. In addition to teaching English as a foreign language, I have also taught English, mathematics, and science to primary and secondary school children in the United Kingdom.

Outside of education, I have experience in administration, data science, and text-based translation and real-time interpretation (Mandarin Chinese and English). After growing up in the United Kingdom, I travelled extensively before spending over eight years in Taiwan, where I reached full professional proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and studied psychology at National Taiwan University. Later, I studied philosophy of the University of Warwick. I like to use my second language—Mandarin Chinese—to converse with friends and explore Chinese literature, including modern novels, academic papers, and ancient texts.