Explore the Future through Japanese Language | From Daily Talk to the Deep Ideas
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Explore the Future through Japanese Language | From Daily Talk to the Deep Ideas
Über mich
Ich als Lehrkraft
Meine Stunden und mein Unterrichtsstil
Lebenslauf und Zeugnisse
Aus JapanLebt in Other, Japan (10:19 UTC+09:00)
Über mich
italki-Lehrkraft seit 20. May 2024
Thema von InteresseKunstWissenschaftMusikLesenSchreiben
About Me:
Hello, I’m Masaharu.
I offer Japanese lessons that go beyond vocabulary, grammar and conversation — lessons that open a path from Japanese language to new ways of thinking.
My Background:
Native Japanese, with professional experience working for over 20 years internationally in English for a multi-national computer company.
Teaching Japanese online to learners worldwide in English.
Studied philosophy: phenomenology and process philosophy, and interested in how language emerges in face-to-face interactions.
Ich als Lehrkraft
Patient guidance.
What is called a beginning? There is no beginning prior to the beginning. The beginning of the beginning is immediately cast into a contemporaneity where no causal relationship obtains: freedom.
Meine Stunden und mein Unterrichtsstil
I am constantly experimenting in interaction to students' individual curiosity without being bound by preconceived methods of teaching Japanese. Every lesson can be a creative act. The contents of the lessons I am currently giving/have given are as follows:
- Intuit the essence of Japanese
- Clarify the construction in Roman
- Deconstruct Minna no Nihongo
- Conversation about any topics of interest
- [TBD] Learn Japanese from manga; the analogy between α) pictures with speech bubbles and β) kanji with ruby
- Prepare for JLPT; maximize the use of abduction, neither deduction nor induction, using limited knowledge
- Read novels
- Memorize numerous kanji by free association
Mein Unterrichtsmaterial
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1991 - 1997
Bachelor - PhilosophyWaseda UniversityI have been interested in phenomenology and process philosophy, concerning the concept of time and space, the foundations of mathematics, and the emergence of meaning in language.
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.