Taeko

Taeko always has well structured lessons planned and starts the lesson right on the dot, but she does more than just that. During today’s lesson, she gave me a really great talk about proper learning mentality; basically, when you’re learning a language, you’re teaching a young child. You wouldn’t get angry with a young child for not grasping advanced concepts quickly, so you shouldn’t get angry with yourself either. Really changed the way I think about learning, and I feel like I can be much more patient with myself. What a great teaching moment!

I have been Taeko-sensei's student for a while now and I have to say that she is my favorite teacher I have ever learned under. From the very first lesson, she had a good grasp of where my current skills were at and had strong suggestions for what I needed to improve on. Overtime we developed a lesson plan that worked well for me. Every lesson feels extremely engaging and she she always shows a vested interest in what I have to talk about. It is very much like talking to a friend. I cannot recommend her enough!

My son loves his lessons with Taeko. He is making excellent progress with Japanese. I honestly could not say enough positive things about how working with Taeko has improved my sons foreign language learning experience.

Taeko sensei assessed my current language level and we bonded over both of us being musicians. Then we touched on verb conjugation and made a plan for lessons going forward.

As always, Taeko is super professional. She also has her own materials simplifying tough grammar concepts (e.g., the different uses of wa).

4th lesson and always super excited for the next session with Taeko.