Professional Japanese educator with a PhD and three decades of teaching experience

I am a PhD-educated professional Japanese language educator with a university degree in teaching. I have 27 years of experience teaching all levels of Japanese. I studied at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies on the Japanese Ministry of Education scholarship and have Level 1 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) and the JETRO Business Japanese certificate. I obtained my MA and PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

I can help you plan and structure your learning process, kanji and vocabulary memorisation techniques, make sense of Japanese grammar and usage, develop writing and conversational skills. I can explain the minutest nuances of Japanese grammar patterns or kanji/jukugo meanings in plain English and ensure that you know how to use them correctly. Specifically for teaching kanji, I use my own method adapted from the Japanese national school curriculum for the needs of non-native speakers. It is built around continuously mindmapping kanji and their combinations to help develop your kanji usage, boost your Japanese vocabulary, and really understand how the Japanese language describes reality.