I began tutoring missionaries in the field by the time I got to Japan. I put in several hours a day studying, learning, and speaking the language with native Japanese speakers every day. I still practice the language today, and I have several Japanese- speaking friends with whom I communicate often.
I also began teaching the language when I lived in the Japanese house at the Foreign Language Study Residency at Brigham Young University for a semester. We would speak the language each day,...
I began tutoring missionaries in the field by the time I got to Japan. I put in several hours a day studying, learning, and speaking the language with native Japanese speakers every day. I still practice the language today, and I have several Japanese- speaking friends with whom I communicate often.
I also began teaching the language when I lived in the Japanese house at the Foreign Language Study Residency at Brigham Young University for a semester. We would speak the language each day, and I would help non-native speakers with homework, lessons, and everyday conversational subjects. Furthermore, I was a church teacher which allowed me to teach a formal lesson in Japanese every two weeks. I love teaching and tutoring. I have always loved it at school and look forward to helping those who want to learn the best language in the world!
I spent thirteen months learning the Japanese language as a missionary and as a friend. I had two Japanese companions for over six weeks each that I had the opportunity to speak with each day. They taught me a lot, and I was able to tutor fellow-English speaking missionaries what I learned from the native-speakers. Also, I took two Japanese courses while I was at university last fall, Japanese 301 Reading and Culture and Japanese 311R 3rd-year conversation which was included as a class Arnold the foreign language student residency.
Before I became a missionary in Japan, I was trained and tutored by former missionaries who would only speak to us in Japanese. This was rigorous course work, and I learned how to specifically teach the language through conversation. No English was involved in our class work. I had to learn to adapt listening and speaking the language in a very short amount of time, just months.
Another opportunity I had as a tutor and teacher was while I was a missionary. I was called to be a district leader which allowed me to tutor and teach a group of missionaries and to lead them I their missionary-efforts. We would have a weekly-meeting where I would cond
