FYWE YWEA | The age of a New Frontier

Corinne Dillon, 26 years old, American (China)

During her studies at Harvard, a Chinese professor said to her: I think you are very lihai, which means ‘fierce,’ and you have potential to go to China and do great things.

Registered in the U.S., but based in Beijing, a Mandarin-lanuguage school has 10 full-time teachers, including Corinne’s original five tutors, who give live, one-on-one lessons through the Web to students located around the world.

Her innovative way of helping students learn Chinese online was presented in The New Yorker and Bloomberg Businessweek.

If I’d stayed in the U.S., I’d probably be working at a big corporation and wouldn’t have been inspired by daily contact with the scrappy, “only in China” brand of entrepreneurs - said Corinne.

In fact, she quit her job at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in 2009 to establish Discover Mandarin, in order to promote a new way of teaching Chinese.

Discover how studing languages can enhance cross-cultural communication as well as give an insight into the other cultures.

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Discover Mandarin is an innovative Mandarin-languauge school that offers personalized, one-on-one speaking classes on-line with professionally trained, native speakers.
www.discovermandarin.com