Japan: Cours de Japonais en ligne

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About the teacher : This is my story of experience in teaching and using Japanese. I could have it totally constructed in the form of CV by AI, but I feel more like being honest about my level of English as a means of teaching and being sincere in the way of expressing myself so my future students could have ann idea about the personality of their sensei. I started English translation as a major in 2002 and on the second year of university I got so bored with English which I had learned as a profile discipline at school that I was thinking about switching my major to something totally different. Still I was too deep in the sphere of linguistics so I was happy to find a 3-year course of Japanese among elective courses. There were two teachers, one if them is Japanese and used only Minna no Nihongo (very thoroughly - as any Japanese - following the book structure), and the other one is Russian, a follower of the Soviet Japan studies which include a lot of linguistic theory. Thus from the very beginning I got an idea of at least two completely different methods of teaching - and, of course, teaching materials. To be short about this difference, Minna no Nihongo is a key to the JLPTest while best translators are raised by the Soviet school. I started teaching Japanese in 2007 in private language schools- right after the graduation -and as I had shown myself as an honoured student - after a couple of years I was invited by the dean of my faculty to teach Jap- Rus translation right on the Japanese elective course I had graduated from. So this is when my experience of teaching grown-ups started. Around 2010 there appeared teaching materials which were absolutely different from what we were used to. That was Marugoto totally based on communicative method. This means that you can get communication solutions without getting deep in to the grammar and extended vocabulary. During my work at university I was sent several times to teacher training courses organised by Japan Foundation in Moscow. Concerning teaching Japanese to children, I considered myself not mature enough for the first seven or eight years after graduation - generally I was training grown-ups for JLPT. But occasionally there were kids, some of them were so bright that inspired me to switch my attention to this field. By now I have got a diploma from the 2-year-course by Oriental Academy in St-Petersburgh during which I studied different teaching methods and designed my own lessons for elementary-school children. At the present time I am holding another special Japanese course apart from those mentioned above - Japanese for travelers - which is quite communicative and best suitable for small groups. Furthermore, I keep teaching Japanese during my "cheap Japan" guided tours. Thank you for reading my long story, I hope it was more interesting than a CV by AI. Just in case: I have got an N2 certificate, master's degree, a certificate of Japanese language course, a diploma on teaching methods retraining course, some other certificates from JF

Presentation of the programme

Course: online only (Teams, Zoom, VooV)Level: N2 - certificate Group or individual classTraining for JLPT up to N2Kids (if they speak basic english or russian)Course for travellersTeach in English, Japanese or Russian