Award-Winning Japanese Tutors serving Virginia

I am a native speaker of Japanese. I have experience teaching Japanese at elementary and high school levels as a substitute teacher. I've been tutoring with Varsity tutors since July 2018. I look forward to working with you to build on or establish your Japanese language skills.

...tutoring experience, and I'm excited to work with you to address your specific needs! I was born in Denver, CO, and grew up in a small ski town called Steamboat Springs. I graduated as the valedictorian of my high school class and moved to New York to study philosophy at Columbia University. After college, I spend two years teaching English in the public school system in Japan before going back to Columbia to complete my...

...be overstated. It is not enough to share knowledge; knowledge must be communicated. This is the philosophy by which I have tutored and by which I currently tutor. With 4th grade students and with college-age students, with students in America and with students in Japan, I have helped new ideas and information take root and blossom to the satisfaction of student and tutor alike. I love those moments of recognition as someone internalizes knowledge, when...

...pencil off of a table, I can easily demonstrate physics concepts to my students. For me, hearing "Oh, that makes so much more sense now!" from the students whom I tutor makes my job very rewarding because working with them to find the approach that best caters to their needs feels awesome. As a tutor, I always ensure that my students have a good qualitative understanding of the subjects they are struggling in before helping...

...peer tutor. While at university, I also served as a part-time English teacher at two elementary schools in inner city Pittsburgh. Since college, I have lived and worked as a tutor in New York, Los Angeles, and Barcelona. While I tutor a wide range of subjects, I am most passionate about English, History, Math, and the SAT. I am fascinated by the SAT. I love teaching struggling test takers how to view the SAT as...

...and Japanese. I encourage students to find freedom in these subjects rather than trauma. In each lies a means of expression and an opportunity for dialogue. Physics, for example, offers us a completely new vocabulary for describing our natural world. My goal is for you to develop a comfortable rhythm using unfamiliar vocabulary and the ideas behind them. Patience, young one, and you will feel empowered, not intimidated on test day! My method involves students...

...for Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism at MIT, and I tutored in math and science in high school. I scored a perfect score on the SAT Math section twice, and have taken 11 AP tests with an average score of 4.7. I believe the best way to learn math is through challenging problems, and gaining confidence in yourself when you find that you understand those problems. I am passionate about learning, and I hope I...

I am currently pursuing a Bachelors degree at Indiana University Bloomington, majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Psychology and Japanese. I tutor multiple subjects, but I enjoy tutoring Algebra and Japanese the most. I believe that everybody should be able to get the education that they deserve and the attention and help in order for them to achieve that. Outside of academics, I enjoy playing the Guitar, Photography, and playing Badminton.

...creative initiative that I developed during my studies. Having learned through past teaching experience that no two students think exactly alike, I facilitate learning by developing methods that cater to a student's personal learning style. I aim to make the learning experience feel less like a chore and more like an opportunity for self-improvement. Outside of tutoring, I indulge my addiction to crossword puzzles and enjoy foreign language studies and practicing guitar in my spare...

...past, and my most recent experience was as an English tutor for a Japanese researcher. I have a fondness for foreign languages, and offer tutoring services for Japanese, as it is a language that is nigh impossible to master alone. As someone who has learned foreign languages through self-study and under the guidance of teachers, I recognize the importance of having access to fluent speakers. I want to enrich your Japanese learning experience and be...

...on my own and eventually studied business at the graduate level at UCF. Informally I study history and culture and love to read. I taught English, Reading and Writing in the Japanese public school system for nearly 5 years from 2001-2006 and know well the satisfaction that comes from seeing a student succeed. I have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and at this moment am taking an online digital marketing course through the University of...

I am born and raised in Japan. I would like to help those who are interested in learning Japanese language. Thank you!

I believe every student has his or her own learning needs. I would like to know more about my students, to provide a personalized learning experience and to help them achieve their dreams. My students will not be afraid of making mistakes. My students will be more confident about their abilities. My students will have a open and critical mind to what they are learning. ... I believe every student is special and needs personalized teaching...

...college student attending Brigham Young University in Utah, studying Japanese and Finance. Having lived in Japan for two years and having completed a professional internship in Osaka, I have learned to speak the Japanese language fluently and am passionate about helping others do the same. Though I have experience both teaching classes and privately tutoring learners of all ages and all levels, I am especially expert in working with high school to college-aged students who...

...helping my classmates out with difficult concepts and subjects. I have tutored classmates in Spanish before I graduated from Upper Moreland High School. I also currently work as a tutor through Foundations Inc. for students in the Philadelphia area. I understand what it's like to feel like I'm never going to understand something, and I want to help others be able to feel proud of themselves for overcoming that feeling and achieving their academic goals....

I'm a native Korean, and also I moved to the US from South Korea about 8 years ago. I have a passion to teach others, and I would like to teach about how to speak like a native Korean speaker, not just based on Korean textbooks. I understand how hard learning different language is because I also experienced and is experiencing it.

...Currently, I tutor Japanese and have experience in tutoring subjects such as English and Math. I like Japanese because it's a very unique language and has a lot of tangible applications to modern day media such as anime and manga. I like to put an emphasis on learning as a process, meaning I treat my tutoring process as a progression of steps to help achieve some goal. I like to help invoke fun and excitement...

...years before I came back to the States and earned a bachelor's degree in Japanese from BYU, and am currently working towards a master's in education at UVU. I tutor Japanese primarily, and it's my favorite subject to teach. My main philosophy when it comes to language learning is that everybody has a reason they're studying, and to help them fulfil that reason. Along with that, there are many routes to achieve that - there...

...school and college levels in courses including Japanese and Linguistics. I also helped peers with their essays and presentations. Outside of class, I founded and presided over the now-official Linguistics Club. I love tutoring because it not only allows me to work with and help other people but also encourages me to reinforce and improve my own knowledge. I especially enjoy working with people on their reading and writing, because I believe writing skills empower...

...learning differences and disabilities and four years in public school. -Have taught students as young as 8 years old and as old as 63 -Coached and ran academic clubs and extracurricular clubs such as state spelling and writing competitions and creative writing clubs. -My proudest accomplishments to date include teaching an elementary student to love classical literature and one of my Latin students going on to join and excel in college translation courses as only...