Now I am a volunteer Mandarin tutor for Madison East High School. I speak a standard Mandarin without any accents. My spoken Chinese is at the level of a Chinese radio announcer.

I am holding two master's degrees, one of which is an MBA from the University of Connecticut. I was a lecturer for an undergraduate course when I studied my first master's degree in China. I was a graduate teaching assistant at UConn business school.

I'd like to teach American people Mandarin because I belie...