Self-introduction

★年内は12月30日まで、年始は1月4日からレッスンを始めます★
今年は9月に4周年を迎え、JapaTalkで7000回レッスンを達成することができました。生徒のみなさんのおかげです。本当にありがとうございます。来年もわかりやすく、ためになる、そして楽しいレッスンをお届けできるようがんばってまいります。
　どうぞよいお年をお迎えください。

Hello everyone!  My name is りえ. I am a certified Japanese instructor. This September marked my 4th anniversary on JapaTalk. Thanks to my students, I have already done more than 7000 lessons. I am over the moon! I will continue to make my lessons as easy to understand, informative, and enjoyable as possible.

I worked as a local government employee for quite some time. I had used Keigo to communicate with local people and government officials. Moreover, I had experience checking documents that enhance my ability in grammar. So, teaching Keigo and correcting grammar are my strong points.
Lastly, I think that learning a laungage is like a long journey and I would like to be a lighthouse guiding you.

市役所しやくしょで長く働はたらいていたので、敬語けいご、文法ぶんぽう、ライティングなどが得意とくいです。日本語学習にほんごがくしゅうのみちはとても長いですが、あなたの日本語学習にほんごがくしゅうを導いてみちびいていく灯台とうだいのような存在そんざいでありたいと思っています。

【生徒さんについてのおねがい】
・ひらがな、カタカナがよめること
・18才さい以上であること
・日本語にほんごネイティブではないこと
I am sorry to inform that my class is only available to those who are over 18, those who can read hiragana, katakana, and those who are non-native Japanese speakers.

Students' comments

・楽しかったです。ありがとうございました。
・りえ先生は非常に親切です。説明もわかりやすいです。
・私が苦手な発音を丁寧に教えてくれて、大変勉強になりました。
・Rie Sensei is such a wonderful person. She has lots of experience in life and have a very nice personality. I can talk about many things and learn Japanese at the same time!
・Rie Sensei is always nice and listens patiently to you and teaches you what you want to learn.
・Very kind sensei
・りえ先生はベテランの先生です。日本語の学習についてとても熱心に教えてくれました。日本語のレベルアップに大変役に立っています。
・Rie sensei speaks clearly, I can easily understand her questions and words. I can recommend taking her lesson for beginners like me.
・She is very calm. I like her lesson because she allows me to practice well by having small talk. She explains the grammar points well.
・りえ先生はレッスン中に小さな間違いでもすぐに直し下さり、そしてチャットボックスにタイプして正しい言葉や使い方などを送って下さいます。復習をするとき、とても助かります。
・とても満足しております。
・技術的問題があってもRie先生は親切に待ってくれました。先生はレッスンのために分かりやすいプレゼンを作ってくれました。
・If you are looking for teachers to help you go through the difficulty of learning Minna no Nihongo textbook, it may be (one of) the best choice for taking this class of RIE sensei. Actually, I have communicated with several JapaTalk teachers and I am confident to say that RIE sensei is a responsible teacher with marvelous English ability.
・She is very friendly and helpful.
・She speaks very clear and her explanations help me understand the lesson easily. I will take more lessons from her.
・初めてのレッスンで先生の日本語教育への熱意を感じ、ご丁寧に添削していただき、言葉のチョイスを考えていただいたりして、今後の書く練習へのモチベーションにもつながりました。
・先生の慣用句のレッスンが大好きです！少しづつ聞いた会話で慣用語を聞き取れることができ、これからも会話中に活用できるように頑張ります。
・りえ先生のレッスンはいつも楽しいです。様々な話をしたり、新しい単語を教えたり、間違ったところも教えてくれたりして、とても良いレッスンだと思います。
・I appreciate Rie sensei for being patient in teaching and fixing my Japanese grammar. I can tell she`s one of the best teacher I had.
・Her schedule is really flexible and she has a really high level of English. She explains and speaks in a clear manner. She also gives me additional information and extra homework which really helped me a lot.
・素晴らしい先生でした！優しくて聞き取りやすい声で文法を教えてくれました♪たくさん勉強になりました。ありがとうございます。
・優しい先生です。詳しい説明をもらいました。色々勉強になりました。
・Rie sensei prepares her own Keigo basic concept sheet for students which I think not many books describe it in detail. It helps me to understand Keigo better and thus easier to memorize. She is kind and speaks very clearly to students. She welcomes questions and whenever she couldn’t answer on the spot, she will come back to me later. I also appreciate that she remembers what her students said before and uses it to create some light conversations.
・Rie sensei provides constructive feedback on my verbal communication using the Skype chat box. She teaches a lot of useful and natural expressions for different contexts (e.g. more formal expressions in the workplace, and more casual expressions when talking to families and friends). She also corrects my pronunciation, which is something that you cannot easily pick up by studying a textbook. She also provides challenges in order for me to step out of my comfort zone.
・Rie sensei is a very nice teacher. The course of honorific Japanese is exactly what I need to learn, helps a lot for my work. I'm enjoying the class very much.
・Rie sensei is a very kind teacher. Thanks to her flexible schedule I can enjoy the lessons that are really well structured and a lot of fun. If I don't understand anything she is always ready to explain any grammar clearly and patiently.
・Rie sensei is always so pleasant and fun. She corrects me when I need to be corrected and guides me towards areas I need to study more. I'm so happy I found Rie sensei. She is helping me a lot.
・りえせんせいのレッスンは相変わらずめちゃくちゃ楽しかったです。今年、日本語を勉強する理由を何回も迷いましたが、最近答えを見つけられて半年ぶりの予習も再開しました。私は自分の小さいな上達を喜びます。りえせんせいと会えて本当に良かったと思います。ありがとうございます。
・Excellent lesson with Rie Sensei as she guided me through the sentences I made for homework. Also enjoy chatting about what I’ve been doing in the past week. She is a lovely, caring and dedicated teacher. Appreciate her very much!
・She is punctual, flexible and taught very well. The examples and use cases of each sentence structure that she have taught help me grab them so easily.
・りえ先生のニュースレッスンは非常に良いレッスンだと思います。興味があり、より理解したいニュースを自由に選択できます。レッスン中に読みながら、先生は発音を直し、疑問点を解説し、不明な語彙などを分かりやすい言葉で説明したり、例をあげたりしてくださいます。りえ先生のレッスンを通じて、ニュースの内容をより正確に理解できるほか、多くの知識を得、ニュースを読むのもより一層楽しくなりました。
・I get to learn a lot about Keigo and Japanese corporate culture in general. Rie-sensei is very friendly and lessons were not stressful.
・Rie Sensei is the best Japanese teacher I have ever met. She is nice, dedicated, and friendly. Her good teaching method with strong pedagogical skills enables me to obtain new knowledge easily. I always feel comfortable and relax when attending her class. She prepared her own handown that makes me quikly understand the lessons. Apart from knowledge in text book, she teachs me many Japanese sentences which are very useful in daily conversations.
・I got the impression that Rie-sensei is very dedicated to her work as a Japanese language teacher!
・敬語のことを詳しく説明してくれて、助かりました。
・添削は予想以上に早かったし、添削していただいた部分はとても分かりやすかったです。今回は仕事で使う文章だったので、レッスンを予約する前に先生に相談してみましたが、凄く丁寧に受けてくれて、嬉しかったです。