Chinese Classes

Yuan Yuan Wu Corson is a native Mandarin speaker with 21 years of teaching English to children in Taiwan. She was born in Miao-Li in Taiwan, and received degrees from the National Taichung Institute of Tech. and the National Taiwan Academy of Arts. Ms. Wu met her American husband in Taiwan and moved to the USA in 2010.

Weiwei Curtis was born in Beijing. She is a native Mandarin speaker and near-native speaker of Japanese. She moved to Japan, attended high school there, and holds a degree in teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language from Yokohama University. Weiwei taught Chinese to adults in Japan for 7 years and is relocated since 2004 to Mid-coast Maine.

Jenny Tung. A native mandarin speaker, Ms. Tung also speaks dialect Cantonese and Taiwanese and can read and write with both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. She earned a masters in law in Chicago and then worked there for the Consular Affairs Taipei Office for five years. She is studying now how to create on-line multimedia Chinese lessons. She has taught Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan, at the Chinese Culture Education Association Chinese Language School at Skokie, IL, and most recently at Mid-Coast Christian Academy in Thomaston. She lives in Thomaston, where she enjoys gardening and participating as percussionist with the Mid-Coast Community Band. She plays also a traditional Chinese stringed instrument called pipa.