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✅ Over 23 years of professional experience (53,000 hrs offline and 18,600 hrs online) in JSL (Japanese as Second Language),KSL (Korean as a Second Language), and ESL (English as a Second Language)
✅ All levels from scratch to advanced
✅ Specialized in business (Over 18-year professional experience as a freelance translator for 91 companies)
✅ Interview preparation (JET Program, job interviews for Japanese and Korean companies)
✅ Exam preparation (JLPT, JPT, TOPIK, TOEIC)
✅ Correction of various documents such as résumés, CV, SOP, and others
✅ Proofreading of academic papers (Over 18-year career as a professional translator)
Me as a Teacher
⭐ Tailored Japanese Lessons in English, Korean, or Basic Spanish/Italian ⭐ Comprehensive Support to Build a Strong Foundation for Mastery.
I'm a native Japanese speaker from Nagano in Japan, who is currently living in South Korea. I had moved around a lot in my childhood. This enabled me to acquire not only standard Japanese but also several Japanese dialects.
After traveling in Asia and Africa, I realized there are so many languages and cultures in this world. Since then, I have become a language enthusiast. Thus far, I have learned several languages, and this has helped me conduct easy-to-understand and customized classes for students with diverse language backgrounds.
My lessons & teaching style
⭐ All lessons can be conducted in ENGLISH, KOREAN, JAPANESE, and a bit of SPANISH ⭐
❖ To provide students with better information quality, all information is recorded in GoogleDocs ❖.
☆ Teaching Style:
➡️ Meticulous, Interactive, Customized, Patient, and Motivational
✫ Main Focus:
➡️ Student’s output, successful second-language acquisition
✫ Lesson Structure:
➡️ Interactive practice, vocabulary enhancement, grammar exercise, accent reduction
✫ Reviewing System:
➡️ Composition practice for the previous lesson are included.
✰ Cancellation/Rescheduling Policy ✰
✅✅ ✅ No-show must be also paid in full without rescheduling
Your kind understanding would be greatly appreciated.
My teaching material
PDF file
Text Documents
Audio files
Image files
Articles and news
Quizzes
Test templates and examples
Certificates
Certificate of Employment (from 2004 to present) - S & S Language Institute - 2018Experience as a professional Japanese, Korean, and English teacher and translator
Certificate verified
Japanese Language Teaching Competency Test - Association for Japanese Language Education - 2010The Japan International Education Association administers the Japanese Language Teaching Competency Test to certify that applicants have acquired the level of knowledge and ability required to work as specialists in the field of Japanese language education.
Certificate verified
TOPIK - Korea Institute of Curriculum & Evaluation - 2007Level 6 (C2)
Certificate verified
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Radina B
293 Korean lessons
Teacher’s pick
As 2023 concludes with today's lesson, it’s time to reflect on a year and a half of learning Korean! I am deeply and incredibly thankful for discovering Sato! While I began the year familiar with many words, now I can engage in basic Korean conversations. My proficiency in conjugating between past, present, and casual to polite tenses has grown significantly. Sato's teaching skills are evident; he gauges precisely when to challenge me and when to allow independent exploration. Whenever I struggle with a concept, his patient explanations ensure clarity. He will always keep at it until I have fully grasped the topic. His organized Google Docs of lesson notes are invaluable, and his commitment shines through—even when responding to late-night questions! Beyond language, Sato also adds invaluable insights into Korean culture and lifestyle. His meticulous attention to my pronunciation ensures I sound as authentic as possible. Truly a dedicated and skilled instructor! Thank you!
Dec 29, 2023
Hayden Salvato
100 Japanese lessons
Teacher’s pick
As another year studying with Sato San is finishing, I feel the need to write a proper review. A new year's resolution two years ago changed my life, I decided to try learning another language and shortly after discovered Sato San. Looking back after almost 100 lessons it is hard to believe we've come so far. Starting from scratch, we are now conducting class in almost exclusively Japanese. I am still far from proficient, but feel like I have an extremely solid foundation to build my intermediate level Japanese on. Sato San's style of teaching puts the ball in your court as a learner. The amount of information and study material he provides is abundant, its up to you as a student to study and apply. We have come a very long way together and I am very grateful as a student to have found such a great guide on my language Journey. We continue to trudge towards the metaphorical peak of Everest together.
Sato San- 本当に ありがとうございました
Dec 31, 2020
Huyen Tue Dao
668 Japanese lessons
Teacher’s pick
Another fun and very helpful lesson with Sato-sensei!
I appreciate his patience and understanding when I forget vocabulary or make mistakes. And I'm super enjoying the pace and really am absorbing the new information well.
I also enjoy all the cultural and language context that he gives as we go through the lesson. It gives so much more life and meaning to learning Japanese.
I also found it very easy to study up on the previous lesson thanks to the Google Doc notes and organization.
Dec 27, 2019
Rachel
149 Japanese lessons
Today we focused on the マス buddy すぎる, and how to use it with イ and ナ adjectives as well as nouns! We did a lot of translating and listening practice as well! いつも ありがとうございました、サトさん!また金曜日‼︎
Oct 23, 2024
Ross Calimlim
72 Japanese lessons
Sato-san and I were able to review quite a number of topics, as my recall is improving! Today we focused on conjugating「-い」adjectives. Sato-san and I practiced pitch shifts for the negative conjugated forms as well.
Oct 21, 2024
Jack
243 Japanese lessons
In today's lesson we started with talking about fractions, the system for conveying fractions in Japanese is easily understandable and fun. I was glad Mr Sato took the time to show me how to do this! after that we talked about the previous week, and I explained to him an odd situation that happened at work. He was able to take my story and give me the Japanese phrasing for the situations. Continuing from there we graded my homework until the end of the lesson. Mr Sato took the time to help me understand the pitch accent for every vocabulary word we went over. It was a very fun lesson and I'm thankful for Mr sato's time, patience and guidance. As always I'm looking forward to our next lesson!!