⭐ Ejderha Sato ⭐

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!

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.

During this lesson we went over a bit of ＿＿ぶり usage in Japanese and how to use time counters with it, I wasn't really familiar enough with said counters at the time so I had to get a refresher on them and how to say them in a conversational and written way.

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

During this lesson with Sato I went over improper uses of verb+すぎる that I had needed correction on, alongside a refresher on how to use the て-form on い-adjectives. I cannot use で on a verb like 良い because it's an い adjective and not な。Also the sentence I was using didn't even call for it because 良い was not the reason to connect with て. Then we went over how しる works and started a bit of examples on て＋みる

During the lesson today we went over how to talk about the medical field and in the first little conversation topic we had, went over how to say "I learned that fragmented knowledge is bad from how my Japanese was after my Anki studies.", in which Sato gave me the helpful phrase for the second part in which I'd say ばらばらの　ちしき for fragmented knowledge and が　わるいと　いうことが　わかりました。　to describe how I I figured out this was a bad thing. Connecting the reasoning for how I found out through て　reason. And then after that we went over how to use ぶり in the most basic sense of the grammar. I also forgot that in cases where　間 is not a necessity for counters to keep them from turning into a whole different word that you can drop it to make the sentence conversational and not written.