I’ve been taking lessons from Mizuka Sensei for a while and I’ve come to the conclusion her superpower is consistent inspiration. At least for me, learning language has had several peaks and valleys. I hit the frustration wall often - yet Mizuka sensei always finds a way to encourage you to continue or find a breakthrough point - even a small one. That’s the real secret, to have a teacher who encourages you through the plateaus. She’s really committed to your success as a student.

To convey my most accurate sentiments, I must resort to English. I just want to say that I always look forward to our exchange of dialogue spiced with teaching moments. The most important and rare quality that this wonderful lady possesses is that she is an almost inexhaustible source of goodness. She devotes herself completely to whatever task she attempts, and her positive energy and attitude is highly contagious, but not in a loose way. She’s kind and understanding and patient, but also highly organized. Frankly, I don’t want to praise her too much because I fear generating too much competition in trying to book a time slot with her. But if you are a worthy student who can also impart something positive back to the teacher . . . Be that your devotion to learning the world’s hardest language or to learn about the teacher’s view of the world . . . And you can give back something positive to our teacher to keep her spirits and energy high . . . Then by all means we can share lol

I've noticed a lot of improvement in speaking Japanese since working with Mizuka sensei, and during my latest lesson in particular I learned how to use some more difficult sentence structures, and improved my cadence with them. I highly recommend lessons with Mizuka

瑞香先生👩🏻‍🏫のお陰で私の日本語は短時間に得意になりました。Thanks to Mizuka as a teacher👩🏻‍🏫, my Japanese in a short time got pretty good. 今日、文通する相手は私の手紙の上手の日本語で驚きました。Today, a partner of correspondence was surprised of the level of Japanese proficiency of my letter. 全ては瑞香先生のお陰で、私は瑞香先生を誉めきれないです。🌸All thanks to Mizuka Sensei, I can't praise her enough.🌸

Thank you Mizuka sensei - I enjoyed talking about so many topics today and you always help me feel confident to try using new phrases. Japanese has opened the world to me a little more. I just need to go back and review some basics I’ve become rusty on! Even when I forget those things Mizuka sensei is a patient teacher and it makes such a difference when learning. たらform is very useful! I’ll work on it this week.

Thank you Mizuka sensei for all the great lessons and conversation. I was really interested in 名 as a counter! The homework has been very helpful to solidify things in my brain that were confused (てよかった and ばよかった) so I will continue to work those into conversation!