🌟 AGENDA
✔ Self introduction of each other
✔ Talk about learning goal & purpose
✔ Talk about current and target language levels
✔ Introduce teaching style & materials
✔ Demo teaching
✔ Summary and next lesson

🐇 For the beginners in English, for the intermediates in Japanese, I will help you obtain Japanese practical expressions. This lesson will use the textbook series 'できる日本語', which has more conversational expression compared to other major Japanese language textbooks.

This class is NOT for total beginners: you need to be able to read Hiragana & Katakana before starting a lesson. If you are currently learning basic Japanese using textbooks like 'みんなの日本語,''げんきⅠ/Ⅱ' and so on, this class is ideal for you. It is time for you to put your Japanese knowledge into practical conversation and learn how to converse in many situations. 

In my class you will get ideas of when to output your Japanese words, expressions and grammar while confirming the grammar rules and learning new words & expressions. While showing you pictures, I'll lead you to guess what Japanese people would say in each situation. After giving me your Japanese, you will listen to the dialogue of the picture scene and confirm the conversation. Through this practice, I will fix your Japanese and you will learn how to converse.

This class is especially for listening & speaking rather than reading & writing. Also, this class is not for exam preparation.

The publisher of the textbook shares us with good materials, which are dialogue of all the conversations used in the book and their scripts. Visit their website and you can download them as you like.

https://www.alc.co.jp/dl/7008004/
https://www.alc.co.jp/alco/img/howeng.pdf#page2

- After class students will receive homework that I created along with the class but doing homework is optional and not mandatory. 👍
- If students are late more than 30 minutes without notice, the lesson will be considered a no-show and charged full amount. 🙇
【Last update: 2 April 2025】

🐇 Basic grammar rules & Conversation / 『できる日本語（初級 & 初中級）』

🐫 This class is for those who need some help in learning Japanese. If you have any questions of Japanese, I would be willing to help you studying. 

📣 I can support you study by doing things like answering questions, which may be regarding grammar, pronunciation, nuance, sense of humour of words and expressions, reading, writing rules and the like. It would also be a good idea to just practise speaking in Japanese with me. I have some topic to talk about ready for conversation class.

🤩 I am from Osaka, and I can speak Osaka dialect. I am happy to talk in the language if you wish to hear! Osaka dialect has special intonation and expressions which Tokyo people cannot copy or make any sense! 

We do not have a particular textbook to use for this class.
【Last update: 2 April 2025】

🐫  Self-study support / Free talk / 発音の練習・関西弁も🙆

🐧 This class is to learn Japanese society, culture, people and so on while reading articles and talking about the relevant things. Do you like thinking and talking about social matters, what's happening in society at the moment and where Japan is going. I like sharing ideas with people.


(English follows Japanese.)
この授業は日本語で行われます。N3以上の日本語力を持つ人が対象です。これは日本語能力試験のためのものではありません。

授業の前に、私から皆さんにPDFで「記事」を送ります。皆さんは授業までにその記事を読んでおいてください。その記事のテーマについて、授業の中で私と一緒に考えたり話したります。記事は『読解厳選テーマ10』という３つの教科書の文章です。この教科書は日本語学習者向けに日本で出版されていて、日本の社会や文化に関する文章を扱っています。新聞記事や小説、随筆などの文章が引用されていることもあり、様々な文体に触れることができます。
This class is for intermediate learners, who have the Japanese skills equivalent to N3 or higher. The lesson will be performed in Japanese. Before each lesson I will send you PDF data of an article and ask you to read it and go through some questions if possible. This lesson is not preparations for JLPT or any examinations.

The articles used in the lesson come from the three textbooks of a series, '読解厳選テーマ10　中級・中上級・上級]'. These are published by Japanese for Japanese learners and deal with various topics through which you will see culture, current trend, traditional manner and so on about Japan. Some of the articles use quote from new paper articles, novels and essays, so you will see different styles of writings in the books.

【中級】N3 記事のトピック
１．富士山　２．夢中になる人たち　３．和食・日本料理　４．怪談　５．遅刻　６．東日本大震災　７．ストレス　８．小学校の英語教育　９．出産・子育て　１０．熟年世代の夫婦事情

【中上級】N2 記事のトピック
１．働かない働きアリ　２．血液型　３．言葉の意味　４．IT社会　５．喫煙　６．Kawaii　７．若者　８．いじめ　９．子どもの名前　１０．高齢化の中で

【上級】N1 記事のトピック
１．漫画・アニメ　２．恋×AI＝？　３．見る脳、聞く脳　４．外来生物の今　５．日本人と宗教　６．お花見　７．富士山　８．今、学校で起きていること　９．夫婦別姓をめぐって　１０．人生の終わり

🌾私は授業の後、授業で勉強したことを基にして宿題を作ります。みなさんはぜひ宿題をやってみてください。
【Last update: 2 April 2025】

🐧 Read, Think and Talk (Japanese society & culture) / 現代日本社会と文化

🐬１⃣この授業では、日本の生活の様々な場面で使われる日本語表現を学習します。例えば、みなさんは日本語で天気予報や電車のアナウンス、道案内を聞いたことがありますか。また、イベントのお知らせや就職活動ではどういった表現がよく使われるでしょうか。他にも、丁寧な手紙、愚痴、依頼を断るときに便利な表現、随筆、新聞の記事や投書、詩など、幅広い表現を勉強します。

２⃣この授業では『できる日本語中級』という教科書を使います。受講する方は、なるべく教科書と『ワークブック』を買うすることをおすすめします。２冊合わせて約5000円（税抜き）です。📕


３⃣これは日本語能力試験のための授業ではありません。毎回の授業のあと、その授業で勉強した内容を基にした宿題を作成してお送りします。みなさんは、もし時間があったらやってみてください。そして、ぜひ復習に役立ててください。🤩✏️

◆最終更新日2025年4月2日

🐬 Intermediate grammar & expressions in Japanese life / 『できる日本語（中級）』

I majored in teaching Japanese in my university in Kyoto, Japan, and learned about teaching the Japanese languages in various ways and methods of practice. In the department I also learned about the language itself, which includes history of the language and how it has changed in the past.

I worked as a translator in I.C.T. (international coordination team) in a subsidiary of Nintendo, Kyoto. The main task was translating computer malfunctions, game specifications, work instructions, made by Nintendo developers or game testers, written in Japanese, into English so that they can be shared with our colleagues in another subsidiary in Seattle in the US. It was approximately 80 percent that Japanese to be translated into English.

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music

health

travel

I have been teaching the Japanese language and culture to students of every grade of the Japanese department. Having worked there for a year, I have learnt a lot of various important tips of teaching. One of them is how we teachers stimulate learners so that they can keep on motivated to study. To be specific, at any time during my class, I made a point of catching students’ attention, by sometimes asking them simple questions or joking so that they can relax, for example.