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I recently had the pleasure of teaching Lydia a Japanese lesson at a local café, and it was a wonderful experience. Lydia is a passionate and intelligent learner who brings both curiosity and focus to her studies. As she’s preparing for a trip to Japan, she came to the lesson with clear goals and strong motivation.

We started with the basics of the Japanese phonetic system, and she picked up hiragana and pronunciation patterns very quickly. She asked thoughtful questions and showed a natural ability to connect sounds with written characters. We also practiced essential travel phrases, with a focus on how to order food at a restaurant—one of the most useful skills for visitors. Lydia was highly engaged and eager to role-play real-life situations.

Her enthusiasm and quick learning made the session both effective and fun. I’m confident she’ll do great during her stay in Japan.

Lucie is a highly motivated learner with a passion for acquiring new expressions and grammar concepts.

She is planning to visit Japan for leisure soon, so I'm hopeful that she'll seize the opportunity to engage with locals using as much Japanese as possible!

Kim is very intelligent and passionate! He has self-studied a lot already, so he has a lot of grammar knowledge and knows a lot of expressions! We practiced conversation skills and Te-forms practices today! We had a very high-quality lesson!

Jojo (Jonathan) is a highly motivated student with a lot of background knowledge he gained by himself. He is very curious about learning new grammar and expressions that he always tries to make/use them! I am honored with his endless effort and passion to learn Japanese! I am excited to see how he will make a progress from now on!!

Catherine is a highly motivated student and we learned some basic expressions in Japanese. Although she has just started her Japanese learning, I believe she will become very good at not only communicating but also writing a variety of kanjis.

Mark is an intelligent professor researching アイヌ culture of Japan! He is very knowledgeable in any field of study, and I learned a lot from him every time!

Felix has a great motivation to learn Japanese! He all the time self-studies such a difficult level in Japanese! I'm honored to have such a hardworking student like Felix!

Oisin is a great student who has a passion to learn Japanese as well as the cultural aspect of it! We had wonderful lessons and we actually met in Kyoto in Japan!!