AKI HAPPY

My weekly Happy Conversation lessons with Aki Sensei have become a really important part of my study routine. It’s funny how it works - on any given week I often feel like I’m struggling but I can look back to a few months ago and see how much progress I’ve made. Her infinite patience with my clumsy Japanese is much appreciated, and she always gives me enough time to work out what I want to say. She is clearly a gifted and experienced teacher and I’m really glad I found her on this site!

Today was the first lesson with Aki sensei, it was a great lesson! She prepared cards with different topics, such as: - If you could tell something to all people on the Earth, what it would be? - If you have a chance, would you go to the Mars? - What book made the biggest impression on you? I think its a great way to make lesson, every time we can pick different themes and discuss it. Your Japanese level will be improved much faster if you will speak on different themes everytime, in this way you can broad you vocabulary, and also you can heard what Sensei thinks about that, which is very interesting as we all have totally different backgrounds, and that that we can talk about anything online while studing language its just great. Thank you Aki-sensei, looking forward to the next lesson with you!

Today’s lesson was a little different than usual, but also a lot of fun! Almost the whole hour was unstructured conversation, and we covered a wide range of topics in what felt like a natural conversation. I like our usual format too, but it was fun to change it up today. Two things really stood out : ① being able to hold down even a 5 minute Japanese conversation was unimaginable to me a year ago, so I feel like I’ve made a lot of progress thanks to these lessons ② Aki Sensei has an amazing memory as she remembered things I told her many months ago, and she used that to keep the conversation moving smoothly. Aki Sensei is a great teacher and I look forward to working with her again next week!

Aki-Sensei is an excellent teacher. She is attentive to the student and makes the lesson fun and engaging. She also made sure to communicate very well before the day of lesson to get to know a little about my daughter and made the lesson fun for her. Thank you so much! If you book with this teacher, you will not be disappointed! We will book again.

Aki was so friendly, diligent, and joyful! She was fully prepared for my lesson and it was super personalized. Highly recommend!

My son is very young not even 18 months and Aki Sensei always makes him laugh and smile. She is able to keep him engaged and interested and he learns things that I would not have thought about teaching him. Thank you for the great lesson!