Japanese teacher Masaharu

Masaharu

Community Tutor
Teaches
Japanese
Native
Speaks
English
Between words, ことば, コトバ, and 言葉
From JapanLiving in Other, Japan (08:27 UTC+09:00)
About Me
italki teacher since May 20, 2024
InterestsArtScienceMusicReadingWriting
I have been interested in philosophy since I was in junior high school, and when I think about the Japanese language, I often find myself thinking about philosophical issues at the same time. For example, the Japanese binding particle “wa” has the function of transcending grammatical logic and fixing the topic of the entire sentence until its period, and there has been a unsolved problem about what the “subject” really is in the Japanese language. This is quite analogous to how philosophy attempts to describe the pre-logical or the meta-logical in a way as consistent as possible. And such attempts seem to resemble the act of teaching someone an unknown language.
5.0
Rating
2
Students
6
Lessons
100%
Attendance rate
100%
Response rate

Japanese Lessons

Characteristics of the Japanese language
A1 -  C2

Language Essentials

6 lessons completed
USD 20.00
On Japanese Verbs' Continuous Spectrum: Passive - Intransitive - ∅ - Transitive - Causative
A1 -  C2

Language Essentials

0 lessons completed
USD 30.00
Free conversation
A1 -  C2

Language Essentials

0 lessons completed
USD 15.00

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1 Review

Student Håkon ホーコン
Håkon ホーコン
5 Japanese lessons
Teacher’s pick
Great first lesson. Even though I still find it hard to express myself in Japanese and the fact that we were chatting about rather difficult philosophical subjects, Masaharu先生 still understood what I was trying to say and we were able to have a very interesting conversation.
Aug 24, 2024
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