I have to say that ALL my doubts disappeared after the FIRST lesson. Although it was a much earlier beta version, I really felt that it would help me to improve my speaking and allow me to practice with my own learning material (the one i used when I was at NCCU) To be honest, the best part about this platform is that you only remember having a good lesson with a very nice teacher (and get the teacher's feedback / documents afterwards), which I think means they have nicely achieved to make the platform transparent to the learning experience, and not get in the way with unnecessary functions. Actually, some improvements over the last 3 months they made was following my suggestions (heh :) ) they listen to comments and take them into accounts fast! (this is why I gave a testimonial too - I like companies that listen to their users carefully).

After all, these kind of websites that provide Chinese teachers can only really work if they bring a smooth (i.e. transparent) user experience and great Chinese teachers anytime anywhere. I think they just got both right and this is why I keep using them.

Oh, I nearly forgot, on the technical side (after all, I am geek), I really like the fact I can login onto any browser (i.e. not even from my own computer) and can start a lesson from THAT browser in the less than one minute! And I can see all my previous lessons notes and share my learning documents during that lesson, all like if this was my computer. Of course, after I logout, it is like I was never on that computer - all in the cloud (and in my brain) :)

In a next post i'll talk about a good complement to ChineseTeachers.com and one of the most amazing tool to learn how to write Chinese (and soon japanese), Skritter.com !