Takeshi Spada

I really, really appreciate Takeshi's patience with me as I feel it takes a little bit of a while for me to "change gears" into Japanese. I am so grateful!

I've been taking lessons with Takeshi for going on two years, he always brings a ton of energy and enthusiasm to our lessons and never fails to make them both extremely fun and challenging. Lately we've been working on filling out my vocabulary and developing a more natural pitch accent by watching a pair of interesting short videos and having me share my thoughts about them in Japanese, one of which I study beforehand and prepare and memorize sentences for as a homework assignment and the other which we watch for the first time together and I talk about off the top of my head. We've been using close variations of this method for a few months and I've made leaps and bounds on my Japanese progress! I can't recommend Takeshi enough, especially if you're open to more unconventional, creative learning methods.

I really enjoied the trial lesson, great range of content, very relaxed and encouraging when it came to correcting mistakes. I am looking forward to the next session.

Great teacher! 🌟 Takeshi is so good at explaining things and it was always interesting to listen to him. I really like his teaching style which is more on the casual side. He also had a lot of resources and studying materials prepared which helped me out a ton! 😊

Very enjoyable first lesson, explained everything thoroughly and made for a comfortable learning experience!

I'll sound like a broken record, but I cannot recommend Takeshi enough. He really goes the extra mile to ensure you understand & not feel alone in your language-learning journey. Amazing!