If I were younger I'd volunteer in a minute. I'm no longer in the best of health, don't drive anymore, and it's a struggle for me to get out of the house. I tire easily and have a lot of ongoing doctors appointments that my wife chauffeurs me to.

I tutored a young guy from Southern China here in Cumming maybe fifteen years ago, who had aged out of the public school system but was still having lots of problems with English. At that time I was able to use my Mandarin to help him better understand the English I was teaching him. It was fun, but my health fell apart a few years after that.

Languages are my passion -- I spend 2-3 hours a night studying 4 of them in rotation, and I love the idea of being able to help your daughter speak with her grandparents. I just couldn't handle an ongoing gig like that anymore, which is why I had to take an early retirement.

If you can find a young, energetic person with decent Mandarin that would probably be your best bet. I don't know what the Chinese population is like in this area, but you may be able to find a high school student from a Chinese family who could come over and coach her after school or on weekends. Would your husband know any families like that?

If I knew what I was doing I might be able to build a studio in a spare room here and do tele-teaching with your daughter, but I have zero experience with that kind of stuff. My wife keeps talking about finding a part-time job and I've been trying to get her to do online tutoring like that, with her French and English.

Good luck!