I am a Chinese woman with college degree , I have worked in international company as senior manager for 15 years , and then I moved to Belgium for 2 years . In the last 2 years , I teach my own kids chinese lessen 4 hours per week with the chinese national school textbook , now my first kid knows round 2000 chinese charactors , she can read and write , talking is certainly as a native speaker . My second kid was 5 years old when we moved to Belgium , so she didn't learn any chinese lesson in China , so I began with her from pinyin , now she can read story books with pinyin and she learns more than 500 charactors . From teaching my own kids chinese lessens , I collected lots of experience and I trained my patience . I have to say , if the teacher can make the lessons interesting , then with love , passion and patience , she or he can teach . Otherwise , the lesson can not help the learner but only kill the motivations .