Ruri るり

Ruri sensei has honestly helped my confidence so much. For so long I’ve been so scared to learn Japanese despite it being my life goal. As someone with a learning disability I was always scared that I would never be able to become fluent. Ruri sensei not only encourages me but she teaches me in ways that are so easy to understand. You can tell she genuinely cares and wants her students to learn in the most positive environment. I can’t thank her & recommend her enough!!! 🤍

Rurii has been the perfect teacher for me, always helping me learn more, always making the classes fun and interesting, I've learned so much with her and I've been able to break down the language barrier and make Japanese friends and enjoy Japanese media, the kindest teacher I've even come across, with fluency in Spanish, English and of course, Japanese, she taught me Japanese from all of those perspectives,I am truly thankful for all of the effort she's put to help me learn! in my opinion as a teacher she's 10/10 and as a person she is 20/10

Had an amazing time as usual with Ruri先生!!! Learning about Japan while learning Japanese with her is amazing, I enjoy each class more and more. I can’t believe I’ve been taking classes with her for two years now 🩵 また次のレッスン^_^

This was my last class of 2023 with Ruri, and started taking classes with her in February of this same year!! Time flies when you are really comfortable 😊 I've noticed an exponential growth in my Japanese level ever since I started studying with Ruri. Even on days I don't feel very confident with my Japanese, after I take a class with her I feel so much better and super motivated to continue to learn. She also teaches me so many cultural aspects from Japan which I love (understanding the culture that surrounds a language is so important to me). I promise no one would regret trying a class with her, there are very few teachers with her ability!! So so sooo kind, professional, organised and adapts quickly. I feel like I won the teacher lottery with Ruri. 本当にいつもありがとうございます、るり先生 🩵 メリークリスマスと新年あけましておめでとうございます 🎉🎉

I had a lot of fun in my class today with るりせんせい！Today in our speaking practice, we spent time talking about 高級な食べ物。It was fun speaking about some of the different food that I've eaten in Japan in the past, as well as foods that I have yet to eat. I feel like I'm getting more comfortable stringing thoughts together and putting them into words in conversation. After speaking practice, we covered the next section in Lesson 16 of Genki II. One thing I really appreciate about going over the grammar with るり先生 is how she spends time breaking things down and relating it to things that I've already learned - she had a nice chart of where request words like てください are relative to the request words we covered today. As I might be able to use Japanese at work, I really appreciate learning more about the cultural meanings of using certain words / grammar so that I can use them appropriately when the opportunity comes!

I had a great class with Ruri 先生 today. In our speaking practice, we talked about ご当地キャラクター that I looked at last week with my wife. It was fun talking about some of the characters that we looked at as well as getting to share about some other characters as well. We also spent some time talking about ice cream. I really enjoyed hearing about ice cream flavors in Japan as well as being able to share about the flavors that we have here. I definitely have been feeling more confident about my speaking ability in the last few months as we've been spending time focusing on speaking. During our grammar lesson today, we finished going over Part 1 of Lesson 16 in Genki II. I'm grateful that Ruri 先生 always keeps the exercises engaging. With her encouragement, I've been trying to combine other sentence patterns and grammar that we've covered before with what we're working on and I feel more confident doing that as well. I'm really looking forward to our next lesson!