Three years of teaching Japanese, lessons for children and adults 🐻🐰
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Japanese
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Finnish
Polish
Three years of teaching Japanese, lessons for children and adults 🐻🐰
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
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From JapanLiving in Nishinomiya, Japan (13:37 UTC+09:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Jan 11, 2021
Interest topicEnvironment & NatureAnimation & ComicsPets & AnimalsMusicFilms & TV Series
I'm Nao. I live in Hyogo Prefecture now. I have many hobbies. I love studying English and Korean and playing the ukulele. I like music and films.
👩🏫 I have been teaching Japanese for three years. I also work for after-school activity classes in Japanese primary schools.
🏫 For one year from March 2019, I taught Japanese in offline classes at a Japanese language school in Warsaw, Poland. On a temporary return trip, I was unable to return to Warsaw due to the corona, so I returned to Japan.
💻 Since returning to Japan, I have been teaching Japanese only online to people from different countries and regions.
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Me as a Teacher
👍 Students who have signed up privately as well as italki say that they feel relaxed as if they are talking to a friend, that the lessons are well prepared, and that Nao-san is funny and the lesson time seems to go very quickly.
【Japanese language teaching qualifications】
📃 June 2015: completed the studies for the Teaching Japanese Language Course
📃 February 2022: AJLC certified ”the Children's Japanese Language Teacher Qualification Course”
📃 March 2022: AJLC certified “the Children's Japanese Advanced Instructor Qualification Course”
My lessons & teaching style
The lessons are basically conducted in Japanese. Sometimes simple English or Korean is used to give explanations.
📚 For over 13 years old ✏️
・The lessons are basically based on the textbooks 'Irodori' and 'Marugoto' published by the Japan Foundation. Sometimes I also use news articles for lessons. I use a variety of tools to make the lessons fun.
・I have conversation-based lessons, but I also give grammar quizzes and quizzes at the end of each topic of the text to check achievement and understanding.
🐻 For 4 - 11 years old 🐰
For Kids' lessons, no textbooks are used. Puppets and games are used to make the lessons fun.
★For more information, please check the lesson description
My teaching material
PDF file
Audio files
Flashcards
Test templates and examples
Graphs and charts
Articles and news
Image files
Text Documents
Presentation slides/PPT
Video files
Quizzes
Homework Assignments
Certificates
AJLC認定こども日本語指導者 - 一般社団法人国際こども日本語教育協会 - 2022
Certificate verified
AJLC認定こども日本語上級指導者 - 一般社団法人国際こども日本語教育協会 - 2022
Certificate verified
日本語教師養成講座420時間コース修了証書 - KEC日本語学院 - 2015
Certificate verified
5.0
Rating
16
Students
213
Lessons
100%
Attendance
98%
Response
5.0
Rating
16
Students
213
Lessons
100%
Attendance
98%
Response
Japanese Lessons
Trial Lesson
11 lessons completed
USD 13.50+
【Japanese for travellers】
A1 - C2Language Essentials2 lessons completed
USD 13.50+
【For Intermediate】
B1 - B2Language Essentials41 lessons completed
USD 13.50+
Package with 11% off
【For Starter to Beginner】
A1 - B2Language Essentials74 lessons completed
USD 13.50+
【Only 30min】KIDS for zero starter (4 - 12 yo)
A1Kids77 lessons completed
USD 13.50+
【Only 30min】KIDS for Beginner (4 - 12 yo)
A2Kids8 lessons completed
USD 13.50+
Package with 11% off
【Only 30min】KIDS for intermediate to advanced (4 - 12 yo)
B1 - C1Kids0 lessons completed
USD 13.50+
Availability
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Vocabulary (12)
Quiz (10)
9 Reviews
Nile Schofield
1 Japanese lesson
great teacher. very interactive and knowledgeable
Nov 21, 2022
CarrRobert
35 Japanese lessons
Nao is a great.
Nov 11, 2022
CarrRobert
35 Japanese lessons
Nao is helping me improve my Japanese speaking skills, she is friendly and helps me with the overly complicated things I am trying to say.
Sep 30, 2022
Mia Ratosa Rigler
43 Japanese lessons
I really like studying japanese with Nao-san. Her lessons are well prepared, she is funny and has thought me so mutch in sutch a short time. :)
Nov 22, 2021
matty
1 Japanese lesson
Speaking Japanese with Nao was a fantastic lesson for many reasons!
First, she is organized and is able to use resources to focus on a topic to discuss about. This is great for someone who is unsure of what to talk about in another language (as I do!).
Second, the flow of discussion is probably my favorite part of the lesson. We talked about current news in Japan and then the discussion organically flowed to our opinions, personal experiences and into other areas of relative interests. This is what I look for in speaking partners because talking in a language I'm learning just feels natural!
And I have to mention that Nao is very friendly, encouraging, direct and is able to understand even when communication is a little challenging.
One hour seems long but when it's this engaging time just flies by, so I hope to take another lesson in the future! Thank you, Nao!
Jun 9, 2021
garrett Gutierrez
1 Japanese lesson
Had a great time. Nao is very pleasant to talk with.
She's really helpful when I tried to push my speaking a little further than my ability allows. Keep a notebook handy!