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Masaharu
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Teaches
Japanese
Native
Speaks
English
Explore the Future through Japanese Language | From Daily Talk to the Deep Ideas
Teaches
Japanese
Native
Speaks
English
Explore the Future through Japanese Language | From Daily Talk to the Deep Ideas
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
Resume & Certificates
From JapanLiving in Other, Japan (20:26 UTC+09:00)
About Me
italki teacher since May 20, 2024InterestsArtScienceMusicReadingWriting
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.Me as a Teacher
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.My lessons & teaching style
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 associationMy teaching material
- Image files
- Quizzes
- Presentation slides/PPT
- PDF file
- Articles and news
- Audio files
- Text Documents
- Video files
Education
1991 - 1997
Bachelor’s - PhilosophyI 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.
5.0
Rating
14
Students
74
Lessons
95%
Attendance rate
99%
Response rate
Japanese Lessons
Trial Lesson
3 lessons completed
USD 7.50+
Characteristics of the Japanese language
A1 - C2Language Essentials12 lessons completed
USD 20.00
Package with 20% off
On Japanese Verbs' Continuous Spectrum: Passive - Intransitive - ∅ - Transitive - Causative
A1 - C2Language Essentials21 lessons completed
USD 20.00+
Conversation (Dialogue)
A1 - C2Language Essentials38 lessons completed
USD 10.00+
Package with 34% off
Reading Shūzō Kuki’s "The Problem of Contingency"
B2 - C2Language Essentials0 lessons completed
USD 30.00
Package with 20% off
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1 Review
Håkon ホーコン 和康
7 Japanese lessons
Teacher’s pick
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.
Aug 24, 2024
Trial Lesson
USD 7.50
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