This summer I plan on spending about 3 weeks in TPE for immersion Mandarin with a private tutor - the resources online are quite overwhelming, so I thought I would post the question here in case someone can offer a referral.

I am looking for a tutor who is a professional Mandarin teacher, but who can customize a program to meet my goal of taking beginner level conversation and basic vocab skills to a higher level, sort of a turbo boost - and then be able to continue more advanced lessons via Skype after the visit.

Because I need to maintain a US ET schedule while over there, the lesson period would probably run from about 2pm through 7pm, 5 days a week with homework practice assignments I can do with local friends on weekends (I would work my regular telecommute job from 9pm to 6am, then sleep from 6am through 1pm).

The ideal tutor is someone patient, flexible and willing to adapt the teaching method and lesson plan to inject as much accurate speaking style, sentence structure and vocabulary as possible while offering a very beginning introduction to written script and reading.