Ryuji Shikata

Ryuji Sensei is a very attentive teacher who helps me throughout our lessons to master both vocabulary and grammar through an always fun conversation practice! Despite my constant mistakes Ryuji sensei patiently explains the grammar and lets me catch up at my own pace. I'll recommend this teacher to students of all levels! Thank you!

Taking lessons with Ryuji Sensei has been very productive for my Japanese. I'm constantly discovering new words, phrases, and grammar that helps me express myself and understand others. On top of that we discuss lots of exciting topics so the lessons often end before I realized that the time is up!

We just had another lesson where Ryuji sensei and I read a short novel together. The teacher was very patient (despite my slow pace), caring, and came up with very creative examples and visual explanations for the new words that we encountered. I don't think I'd have been able to read a novel with such level of difficulty on my own yet, but with Ryuji sensei this is not only possible, but super fun!

本日も充実したレッスンをありがとうございました。似た動詞の使い分けや、発音のテクニックについて学ぶことができ、とても勉強になりました。

日本語会話を上達させる目的で、Ryuji 先生とのレッスンを二か月ほど前に始めました。　先生から会話中によく出る文法ミスをご指摘いただき、今では同じミスを繰り返さないように意識して話せるようになっています。　😊　ときどきテーマについて面白い議論もしてくださり、いつも楽しく学んでいます。これからも日本語の勉強を続けていきたいと思います。✨

I had a reading lesson with Ryuji Sensei for the first time and it went beautifully. We discussed readings of words, the meaning behind sentences, and connected all of them together to better understand the short story that we were reading. Ryuji Sensei was patient throughout the lesson even though I was reading at extremely slow pace. Overall, I've had many lessons with this teacher and plan to continue taking more. Ryuji Sensei, if you are reading this - you are absolutely the best!