AKI HAPPY

My weekly Happy Conversation lessons with Aki Sensei have become a really important part of my study routine. It’s funny how it works - on any given week I often feel like I’m struggling but I can look back to a few months ago and see how much progress I’ve made. Her infinite patience with my clumsy Japanese is much appreciated, and she always gives me enough time to work out what I want to say. She is clearly a gifted and experienced teacher and I’m really glad I found her on this site!

Today was the first lesson with Aki sensei, it was a great lesson! She prepared cards with different topics, such as: - If you could tell something to all people on the Earth, what it would be? - If you have a chance, would you go to the Mars? - What book made the biggest impression on you? I think its a great way to make lesson, every time we can pick different themes and discuss it. Your Japanese level will be improved much faster if you will speak on different themes everytime, in this way you can broad you vocabulary, and also you can heard what Sensei thinks about that, which is very interesting as we all have totally different backgrounds, and that that we can talk about anything online while studing language its just great. Thank you Aki-sensei, looking forward to the next lesson with you!

Thank you Aki Sensei for another great lesson. In today’s lesson we talked about a lot of different things, ranging from Kyoto real estate to Hawaii weather and I even got to do a mini book review about my favorite book from high school. Talking about the book was fun because it is honestly a difficult book to summarize even in English but I did my best to explain it in Japanese (although I’m pretty sure Sensei is still wondering why any high school student would read such a book 😂). I will have to miss next week’s lesson because of scheduling conflicts but I’m already looking forward to our next lesson two weeks from now!

Aki-Sensei is an excellent teacher. She is attentive to the student and makes the lesson fun and engaging. She also made sure to communicate very well before the day of lesson to get to know a little about my daughter and made the lesson fun for her. Thank you so much! If you book with this teacher, you will not be disappointed! We will book again.

My kids always enjoy their lessons with Aki-sensei! She structures the lessons according to both kids' language level and interests and keeps them engaged for the entire lesson. She also provides homework to reinforce what they learned. She has very positive energy and passion for teaching. I highly recommend Aki-sensei!

Another fun lesson today with Aki Sensei. In the last year I’ve changed a lot of my study habits, but one thing that I haven’t changed is my weekly conversation lesson with Aki Sensei. These lessons truly are the best part of my week and, even though they don’t feel like “work” I know I get a lot of benefit out of each one. Increasingly the lesson content is mostly free talk, which not that long ago felt like it would be impossibly difficult.