Yukari

I highly recommend Yukari-san’s personalized Japanese classes, especially for learners seeking to move from intermediate or low-advanced to truly advanced or even superior levels. As a language pedagogy professional, I rarely feel compelled to leave reviews on iTalki, but I am consistently impressed by the quality of the materials Yukari prepares. Her ability to extract useful expressions and structures from texts is superb, and she beautifully weaves them into discussions on engaging topics. The materials she creates for a single one-hour class could easily sustain a week of study in a college-level program—the richness and thoroughness are simply remarkable. While her classes are strongly form-focused, the authenticity and natural flow of conversation are never sacrificed. I train nearly 40 Chinese/Japanese teachers at college level every year, and I would place Yukari’s pedagogical effectiveness in the top 5%.

毎日のクラスが楽しいです。ありがとうございます！

As always, Yukari Sensei has been extremely helpful and very patient and kind during my lessons, and always helps clarify things I'm confused with or need more practice with. I've been learning a great deal in our sessions and have enjoyed each lesson so much!! I always come out of them a little more confident than before and always feel I understand the concepts we go over so much better after our sessions. I absolutely would recommend Yukari Sensei to anyone catching up on their Japanese studies, I always look forward to my lessons and am very much excited to book more!!

This lesson as per usual was excellent!!

Another excellent lesson with Yukari-sensei. Her feedback is always so thoughtful and personalized to my needs as a learner. 由香里先生のおかげで、日々上達を実感しています。誠にありがとうございます！

Yukari-sensei is a phenomenal teacher. I am so grateful to have met her on my journey as a student. She makes every lesson tailored to my current ability, setting the challenge at just the right level to ensure that I keep learning and growing my confidence. 由香里先生、心を込めてありがとうございます！