Takeshi Spada
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Takeshi Spada
Community Tutor
Teaches
Japanese
Native
Speaks
English
Entertaining Japanese!
Teaches
Japanese
Native
Speaks
English
Entertaining Japanese!
From JapanLiving in Utsunomiya, Japan (21:01 UTC-05:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Feb 10, 2022Interest topicAnimation & ComicsMusicFoodGamingFilms & TV Series
Hello! My name is Takeshi. I lived in Toronto for two years, and now I'm back in Japan! I also spent 9 months in the States. While I was in the States, I spent my time recording music in Chicago and studying English. I'm super passionate about music, movies, acting, creating content, and language. I'm also addicted to improving myself. I want to meet people who are serious about learning Japanese and whoｍ I can share my vast knowledge with! I'm looking forward to meeting you!Me as a Teacher
I've been professionally teaching Japanese for about three years. My specialties are casual Japanese and teaching phrases that only native speakers use! I help my students avoid directly translating things, as this often results in creating unnatural expressions (E.g When we hang out and friends look a bit bored, we don't say "Are you bored? We say "Do you wanna do something different? （何か違うことする？）in Japanese). Also, I break down common formal Japanese expressions and explain how you can make casual phrases with them. So that you can see the difference and pick proper expressions when you speak or write!My lessons & teaching style
I teach Japanese for a variety of use cases. For example, one of my students wants to be a flight attendant, so we practice a mix of formal and casual Japanese. Another one of my students wants to be funny when he speaks Japanese, so we speak casually and watch anime and comedy together! I always watch my student's favourite anime, shows and videos on youtube to learn natural expressions so that they can remember phrases and rewatch them whenever they forget the phrases we learned! I'm passionate about finding methods that suit my friends. (I call the people I teach, friends!)My teaching material
- PDF file
- Text Documents
- Audio files
- Image files
- Video files
- Articles and news
- Quizzes
- Homework Assignments
5.0
Rating
69
Students
358
Lessons
100%
Attendance
100%
Response
Japanese Lessons
Trial Lesson
62 lessons completed
USD 8.00+
Entertaining Japanese!
A1 - C1General296 lessons completed
USD 42.00+
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Podcast (10)
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43 Reviews
Anthony Huntley
38 Japanese lessons
Takeshi did this particular lesson the day before he was leaving to study in the US and was still 100% fully attentive and focused on giving the best lesson he could! I've been taking weekly lessons with him for 9 month now and he continues to amaze me with his enthusiasm for teaching. Very happy with my Japanese progress now and I HIGHLY recommend him as an instructor!
Jul 15, 2024
Carolina
18 Japanese lessons
Great class, we did a quick catch up, casual chit chat, then proceed to resolve some doubts that I had from previous material and we watched some new material to be reviewed more in depth in the next class. Always so fun to have a class with Takeshi
Jul 10, 2024
Vivek R Serleena
2 Japanese lessons
Seems like the perfect teacher for me!
Jun 28, 2024
Blaise
3 Japanese lessons
Amazing! Very easy to talk to and willing to answer any questions I might of had about language, culture, etc. Super bright personality, understanding, and prepared.
Highly reccomend!
Jun 28, 2024
Carolina
18 Japanese lessons
As always, we reviewed materials, from one and two classes ago (I fell behind lol) and we explored new content to learn from. It was fun 🥰
May 31, 2024
maksymilian stachows
11 Japanese lessons
Great!
May 28, 2024
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