Sakiko

Sakiko is a great teacher! She is patient and kind and fun to talk to. She provides a list of the vocab we covered in the lesson so I can review it later. She guides conversation well and there are never any awkward pauses, which was something I was afraid of in a conversation lesson.

さきこ先生は優しいし、流暢に話せない時、いつも待ってくれて、そして新しい言葉を教えてくれて、大変ありがたいです。こんな素晴らしい先生に出会えたのは幸いなことです！今日は朝ごはんについて話して、色々日本の文化が知れて、自分にとって普通なことをちゃんと人に紹介するにも勉強になりました。 先生はいつも間違えたところや新しい単語をまとめて、vocab listを作ってくださって、復習にとっても役に立つと思います。最初のレッスンではすごく緊張しましたが、先生のおかげて、今はもっと自信を持って、日本語で話せるようになりました。日本語の会話を上達させたい方にさきこ先生はおすすめです。

Teshima-sensei is lively, passionate, professional, and extremely dedicated! She puts in time and effort to help students make the most of the lesson time through detailed preparation beforehand, and carefully curates each lesson to their needs depending on their language ability. She is patient and adept at explaining concepts in a simple way. I’m extremely fortunate to be learning Japanese under Teshima-sensei and fully recommended her to everyone else!

咲子先生はいつも授業の前に頼む文法の説明や宿題などの準備をすっかりします。そして、先生が書いた絵を使って、説明はとてもわかりやすいです。優しく教えてもらってありがとう。やっぱり最高な先生だ!

I have taken casual conversation lessons with Sakiko先生 a couple times now. She is very easy to talk to and helps me identify better words or phrases to express my thoughts, organizing them after each lesson so I can review. I've really enjoyed the lessons so far and would recommend her for conversation practice!

I really like Sakiko sensei's class! She leads the conversation in Japanese which encourages me to actively think and practise in speaking Japanese - but she is also very patient and will help figure out a word when I stumble. She's very bright and cheerful, and she would find fun and interesting topic that relate to me - which helped the lesson become very conversational - almost like talking to a friend and not awkward at all!