In this episode we are using a quote from the philosopher Lao Tzu to have a short discussion on the acquisition of knowledge. These discussions are designed to bring us closer and explore the ideas and thoughts that might help us on our language learning journey.

Philosophical Friday

Lao Tzu

A Language Learning Story // His Journey and a Transformative Stay in Japan

Hello I'm Akari, I'm a online Japanese teacher and tour guide in Kyoto.
I've been teaching Japanese since 2013, and thanks to this job I met amazing people along the way.
Today I interviewed Akira, who took my lesson around 2020, then came to Japan and spend three month from autumn 2024 to winter 2025. 
He's learning Japanese journey is not only language learning, but it's related to his dad's family history and his future wife.

Akari's online Japanese lesson:
https://www.italki.com/teacher/916033

Akari's information:
linktr.ee/akari.japanese

Akari Talks Japan

A Language Learning Story with Akira // His Journey and a Transformative Stay in Japan

Atsushi and I are both online Japanese teacher on italki.
On Oct 11th, 2022, Japan finally open border to international individual tourists.
We talk about making both new Airbnb experiences and teaching Japanese.

Atsushi
https://www.italki.com/ja/teacher/9451959/japanese

Akari
https://www.italki.com/teacher/916033
https://www.airbnb.com/users/show/24592207



Atsushiさんと日本観光の話

I stated to teach Japanese online on italki from 2013, it passed 9 years after I started. 
Today I completed 3,000 lessons on italki ＼(^o^)／

Atsushi, who also online Japanese teacher on italki kindly interviewed me about that.

I completed 3,000 lessons on italki ＼(^o^)／

Tatsuki-san and I are both Japanese teachers.

Tatsuki-san's podcast
https://tatsukisjapanese.buzzsprout.com

Akari's information
https://linktr.ee/akari.japanese

海外で活躍する若者を応援したい A Japanese university student blamed on Twitter about staying in Ukraine.

Tatsuki-san and I are both online Japanese teacher on italki.


Tatsuki-san's podcast
https://tatsukisjapanese.buzzsprout.com

Akari's information
https://linktr.ee/akari.japanese






Tatsuki-san's adventure coming back to Japan from Italy イタリアから日本に帰省しているTatsukiさんとおしゃべり

(We have more English speaking than usual)
My frined, Renata and I both work as tour guides before Covid 19.
Now she's trying new tour, so I interviewed about it.

Talk about new tour possibility with Renata

italki online Japanese teacher, Tatsuki and I talked about Italy. He lives in Italy now, so we talked about the language, life, etc.

Tatsuki's podcast:
https://tatsukisjapanese.buzzsprout.com 

Talk about Italy with Tatsuki  イタリアの言語や生活についておしゃべり

On last podcast, I talked about what we do before new year's day. Today I talk about after new year come.