Karuna

Lessons with Karuna are always a pleasure. She is calm, patient, and looks for ways to draw out your strengths so you pay less attention to your flaws. She has a wealth of resources to help you study and assigns homework that gets you thinking outside of the regular book work. Karuna engages with you in a very casual conversational manner that helps you relax and she actively listens to try to understand what you are saying. I never feel like she is distracted or inattentive during my lessons with her. Since I am very nervous when it comes to speaking, there are often awkward pauses that Karuna adeptly fills in with questions or her own insights to keep the conversation going. I highly recommend Karuna if you are beginning Japanese or if you just need somebody to help you with speaking practice. She gives good travel suggestions too!

Karuna did an excellent job in our first lesson of evaluating my needs and finding ways to involve me even with very little experience and a long hiatus away from Japanese. She's a calm presence and an effective communicator capable of making you feel at ease when you're uncertain of how to progress and gives helpful nudges to push you forward. She also provided several resources and homework exercises to me in order to prepare for our next lesson. I would recommend her to anyone seeking to grow their Japanese language skills. You won't regret it!

Karuna is an amazing teacher!! Always learn so much each lesson!

she rocks

Two months into my adventure learning Japanese with かるなせんせい and I have gone from not knowing their characters to forming simple sentences and understanding the structure. Her guides and applications are amazing for repetition and she always makes sure to play to my strengths and is very encouraging during it.

One month into learning Japanese with Karuna and I can tell how far I've come. Just a month ago I could barely recognize a Hiragana character and now I'm able to write and understand simple sentences in Japanese. Karuna is an amazing teacher with a wealth of knowledge who has made learning Japanese fun and exciting. 10/10, I 100% recommend taking her class. I look forward to seeing how far I'll have come in another month!