Izumi's Tutoring Blog

JAPANESE FOR BUSY PEOPLE is a text book that enables busy working people, who are new to Japanese; learn the language easily while having fun. I have started a project for business people. In my new project, adult beginners will be able to introduce themselves and carry a casual conversation in Japanese in 8 lessons. If you need to know the basic Japanese for your business trip, conferences, and presentation starter, please contact me. You will be able to impress your Japanese counterparts!

TOBIRA for advanced high-school and college students and MIEKO-SAN NO NIHONGO for very young students are added to my repertoires. TOBIRA is an intensive text book, therefore, some students have difficulties getting used to it. I have designed supplemental lessons and exercises to improve students' understanding Japanese with TOBIRA. My power point presentations and one-on-one lessons can help students, using TOBIRA, in fast and intensive Japanese classes at school. If you are a TOBIRA student and need help, please contact me before it's too late.

MIEKO-SAN NO NIHONGO is a good and easy...

For Japanese learners, I want to recommend TV dramas and movies from Japan; however, it's very hard to select a program for lessons. AIBO or Partners is recommended for advanced adult students. Q.E.D. is cute and good for middle and high school students. Both protagonists speak beautiful standard Japanese. Their Japanese sounds great and intelligent. Mr. Ukyo Sugishita, an unusually sensitive and talented detective, has superb vocabulary which is also good for Japanese learners. There is nothing wrong with local accents and slang but they are distracting for foreigners. In my opinion,...

My lessons are fun. I use Japanese TV dramas, anime, and magazines to design lessons. If you want to see sample lessons, please contact me. I will send a sample lesson in Power Point format to you. Lessons must be fun. When you are motivated, you can learn anything quickly.