Joy Kim

I've had more than 30 lessons with Joy over the course of about a year and a half, and I've recommended her to many friends. She's always energetic, kind, and patient, and she adapts our lessons to whatever is currently interesting or confusing me. We've worked on many different kinds of things together: sometimes going over lessons from the TTMIK grammar books (for which she has lots of useful exercises for practicing the concepts), sometimes reviewing/correcting/discussing things I've written between our sessions, sometimes just having conversations in Korean (sometimes with topic prompts/questions she provides and sometimes just spontaneous). I'm much more confident speaking Korean now than I was when I first started working with her, and I'm very glad I found her at italki! I'm an intermediate learner, but I would recommend her to more beginner learners, as well, because she is so kind, patient, and encouraging.

Had an amazing trial lesson with Joy 선생님! We pretty much had a full conversation for 30 minutes in Korean and if there were any words I didn't know she was quick to help out without interrupting the flow of the conversation.

Korean lessons with Joy are always a challenging mental workout, but I don't dread them, because she has a way of making the class feel seamless. It feels hard and easy-going at the same time. I appreciate her organized teaching style, technical knowledge base and her upbeat energy. Thank you!

Really great energy, good pace, makes the class fun, and it feels like I’m learning.

I’ve only had one class so far with 선생님 but it was very enjoyable and we were able to talk in Korean the entire time without stopping thanks to her great listening ability and correcting errors on the spot ability. The lesson was energetic, positive and engaging and so I think for any learners who thrive on a more positive high energy environment, Joy is a phenomenal teacher for you. I also think she has a great ability to judge and craft her class around her student’s skill level as we didn’t need to use english or discuss beginner grammars etc.. and rather just jumped into conversation. I highly recommend Joy to be your teacher!