Award-Winning Japanese Tutors serving Santa Monica, CA

...acquiring a Minor in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) and hope to receive certification for that next year as well. I became interested in tutoring students initially through my internship at the Intensive English Institute (IEI) at UIUC. As an intern, I was tasked with helping students acclimate to American culture and allow them to begin their life at an American university with as few hiccups as possible. I would often answer their...

...languages themselves and more to do with our human need to communicate. At Dartmouth, taking a language course meant full immersion from day one. For the slightly bolder students like me, taking two different, intensive languages courses during the same time period meant constant brain hiccups at the most inopportune moments. Why could I only think of pinyin for the Chinese characters that I had just spent twenty minutes memorizing? And why did I blurt...

Hard-working senior at Old Dominion University working in biological research that loves to help others! I am currently open to tutoring Organic Chemistry and Japanese students.

...in Terminal Care. I was always fascinated by the wonder of human life and had a wonderful experience at the Hospis as a spiritual care volunteer worker for 3 years. While I was at college, I also studied English a lot to become an interpreter by attending a vocational school. I started to work as a tutor when I was a college student and taught some middle school and high school students. I thought Japanese,...

Living in Great New York Area since 2008. Graduate student at Columbia University. Major in Finance + Economics (Undergraduate Program), and Public Administration (Graduate Program), Average GPA is 3.65. Speak Mandarin, English and Japanese. Subjects cover East Asian History (China & Japan), International Relation, Public sector (NPO related). ... I would question students to check the level of understanding on certain subjects, and design learning schedule with students.... I would show them my way of learning,...

...Meteorology at Penn State University and graduated in 2017. While there, I tutored student-athletes in algebra, pre-calc, calc I, and calc II. In university, I took calculus I, II, and III as well as differential equations. After graduation, I moved to Japan, where I taught English to children and adults for 5 years. I taught both online and in person. Currently, I am pursing a master's degree in Japanese with a focus on translation, interpretation,...

...career and thoroughly enjoyed it. Tutoring is one of my passions because I love learning and want to show others the joys of learning too. I think one of the greatest things as a tutor is seeing the face of someone you are tutoring when they have a "eureka" moment. Although most of my tutoring experience has been in biology, I love reading and so am happy to tutor in verbal reasoning or any similar...

...a teaching assistant for linguistics. I plan to continue tutoring and assisting in these fields. I also hope to continue my linguistics and Japanese studies in graduate school in the future. My favorite subject to tutor is linguistics because it is such a relatively new field, and it leaves so many opportunities for learning for both the tutee and the tutor. I believe teaching and tutoring plays a large role in shaping a person's passion...

I am a very passionate learner and I would be delighted to share that love for learning to other students. My empathetic mindset, work ethic, and persistence for success is what I value most about myself and how it can positively impact others.... My philosophies behind teaching are that there is not a single method to learn a subject, but multiple approaches to learning it. My belief is that using all the resources acquirable will lead...

...in and out of the classroom is confidence, and my teaching style places confidence as the most critical thing a student can take out of my lessons. Through my teaching career I have taught many different age levels and a variety of different subjects, as well as a variety of different types of schools. I am able to connect with any student about any topic and am excited to help students learn and succeed here!