Free Japanese Group lesson on June 10th Monday

Free Japanese Group Session
on Monday. June 10th at 4:30 -5:30 pm
For Absolute Beginners!
-How to order at Japanese restaurant-


Hello everyone!
Now you are invited to our Free Japanese Group Session.
It is for absolute beginners for Japanese.
10 years experienced native Japanese professional teacher, It's me : ) waiting for your joining the session!

To take advantage this opportunity, email to me with your Venmo account. I will send you my friend request to confirm your application.

Date : Monday, June 10th
Time : 4:3--5:30 pm
Location : TBA. in Mid town
Deposit : $5

Please email to me with your Venmo like @Satoshi-Nakamot.Then you will receive for the request for deposit for $5 for taking FREE Japanese group lesson via Venmo. After your payment for the deposit, your application will be confirmed. The deposit for $5 will be paid back to you via Venmo when you attend the class on the Monday, June 10th. If you do not attend, you will not be paid back. The session’s location will be notified via Venmo.
If you would like to get a printed hand out for the session, please message me via Venmo as well.
It is for for $5 but is NOT required because the same hand out will be sent to you in PDF by the session date via Email.

️NOTE
The deposit will be paid back to you via Venmo, if you attend the class.
If you need to cancel the session, please email me by 8 am on the day via [e-mail]
Please be careful!
After 8am for the day, your deposit will NOT Refund.
Also if you do not attend the session without the cancel notice by 8am for the day, the deposit will NOT Refund.
Schedule is subject to change without notice.
Space is limited!

I am looking forward to seeing you!!
Yasushi
P.S.
Stay tuned!
NEXT FREE JAPANESE GROUP LESSON will be soon!

JLPT test prep private

Some my students started to prepare JLPT（Japanese Language Proficiency Test） from this month.
Three of them are going to take JLPT N3.
One is going to take JLPT N2.
JLPT test will be scheduled on Saturday December 1st.
I believe they all will pass their test because they started to study early,

https://www.jlpt.jp/e/

唐の長安（今の西安）

Chinese Tang Empire's Capital is called Xi’an in English.
Here is the map.
I will use this for tomorrow's private Japanese session.
She will visit the city to do her internship at the historical art museum.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tang-dynasty

Onomatopoeia !

It is difficult for nonnative Japanese speakers to learn onomatopoeia.
I think this books works well.
I bought this at Kinokuniya bookstore in NYC.

Onomatopoeia : 擬音語　擬態語

Japanese cooking class for kids

Once a month I have a Japanese food cooking class for kids since 6 years ago.
It is taken place a private school in Manhattan.
Their age is from 7 years old to 13 years old.
We made three type of toasted rice ball called Yaki Onigiri.
Very tasty!

Skype lesson

I started online private lesson via Skype.

It is for my previous student who had moved in Silicon Valley from NYC two month ago.
According to her, there are very few opportunities for her to learn private Japanese lesson in there.
Her goal is to work in Tokyo so that she will take JLPT test in this Dec.

Study Chinese history with my old map in Japanese

Someone from China who studies Chinese history in graduate schools in the USA may need to learn the Japanese language. The reason is there are tons of great historical and journalistic articles about China in Japanese!
A huge number of our ancestors visited China to study their civilization and they reported it to help Japan a lot. That is why I get great used book from Japan for the students.

https://rnavi.ndl.go.jp/mokuji_html/000001079499.html

Japanese Girls Festival

In my Japanese class for kids, we had a sweet snack cooking class for celebrating Japanese Girls Festival called Hina Matsuri.
The snack is made from a regular pancake mix but it is colored with green, pink and white.
The color is a specific meaning for Hina-Matsuri for wishing their luck and health.

Learning classic Japanese literatures is "a gold mine"

Learning classic Japanese literatures is "a gold mine"

I just started new private lessons for a graduate student from China.
The goal is to build reading skill for Japanese classic academic literatures.
She studies Chinese architectural history.
As you may know there are a lot of academic literatures about China written in Japanese.
From long time ago many Japanese people went to China and studied for their life time their great civilization and had reported them to Japanese government or the people.

It also helps a lot for modern Chinese people like my students who needs to study their own history from third person’s perspective.

However it would be very difficult even for Japanese native speakers like us to read many articles even written in 20th century.

Here are three main reasons.
First, they are written in many characters that we no longer use now.
Second, they are written in different grammar from our modern Japanese one even if it was written about just fifty years ago around World War Two.
Third, there are many differences between Japanese writing form and the speaking form.

That is why I am here to help you.
We have a good advantage as well.
It is that we can focus to build only Japanese reading skill. We do not need to learn conversation skill.

I had another graduate student from Yale University. She was also from China and had studied the forest environmental history of China.
She got a grant from her university for studying this.

Classic Japanese literature must be
a gold for you too!
Let’s go to the gold mine with me!
The adventure should be very exciting!

Happy LUNA New Year 2019!

Happy LUNA New Year 2019!

新春（旧正月）
あけましておめでとうございます

Let's learn Japanese!

Yasushi

Japanese Business vocabulary 1

Yesterday my student asked me the difference between two business
words below.

恐れ入りますが（osore irimasu ga）: excuse me but

恐れ入ります（osore irimasu）:thank you for your understanding

I hope it works for you all!

My favorite anime for this season

Hello,
I started watching my favorite anime called Mob-Psycho 100 season 2!

http://mobpsycho100.com/

Let's try!

Happy New Year 2019!

Happy New Year 2019!

新春あけましておめでとうございます
Let's learn Japanese!

Yasushi

ベンチャー企業がお生徒さん

来週、日本に出張し、自社製品を営業する社員２名だけのベンチャーが俺の生徒。
社長と副社長、過労で眠たい中俺が彼らを訪れるのを待っている。
明日は最後のクラス。おれもしっかり準備せなあかんｗ

keeping baggage service in Kyoto

keeping baggage service in Kyoto.

Here are the links below.
As for the first link, there are Japanese version as well as other languages.
The second link is written in Japanese, the only title is written in English though.

[京都駅から京都市内の宿] または [京都市内の宿から京都駅]、[京都市内の宿から宿]に
お荷物をお届けするデリバリーサービスが有料にてございます。
宜しければ下記アドレスをご参考下さいませ。

JR京都駅 キャリーサービス
http://carry-s.com/

JR京都駅新幹線 八条口デリバリーサービス
http://www.delivery-service.jp/travel_bag.html

vegan ramen in Kyoto

http://www.mamezen.com/

http://www.mamezen.com/english-menu-1/

coinlockers info in Kyoto and Osaka （baggage locker,an automatic locker）

Konnichiwa mina-san,

I am writing you all some info for your reference.
It is about coinlocker in Kyoto and Osaka.
I hope it works for you all.
It is written in Japanese so I would like to explain that for our next class.
And you could search it in English also.

http://www.coinlocker-navi.com/
http://coinlockersearch.com/

新大阪駅の周辺（around Shin-Osaka station）
http://coinlockersearch.com/shinosaka.html
新大阪駅のコインロッカー情報→
http://www.hotwire.co.jp/onegai/mission-2o.html

祇園の周辺（around Gion area）
http://www.coinlocker-navi.com/kyoto/area/gion/
http://www.keihan.co.jp/en/station/pdf/162_gion-shijo.pdf

JR山陰本線　嵯峨嵐山駅（around Saga Arashiyama station）
http://www.coinlocker-navi.com/kyoto/eki/11614/1161407/
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g298564-i2712-k6881509-Coin_lockers_Saga_arashiyama_Or-Kyoto_Kyoto_Prefecture_Kinki.html
https://www.jr-odekake.net/eki/img/premises/0610704.pdf
嵯峨嵐山駅周辺のコインロッカー情報→ http://kyoto-arasiyama.com/898.html

Kehan line all stations
http://www.keihan.co.jp/traffic/safety/coinlocker-3.html

Hina arare for a Girl's Festival

March 3rd was a Girl's Festival, so we ate a sweet rice cracker called hina-arare with the family.

halal shops or something like that in Japan

I am writing this for the reference.
My friends who live in Japan sent me some links about halal shops or something like that in Japan.
There are some Japanese restaurants too.

I hope it works for Lily-san and Murat-san.
We could read some articles written in Japanese on this Monday.

west Japan
http://kyoto.travel/muslim/en/index.html

http://halaljapan.jp/muslim/restaurants

http://halal.shop-pro.jp/

http://www.kobebeef.co.jp/fs/kobebeef/c/halal

PARS CUICINE 　神戸市中央区北長狭通り3-2-16　3階　　JR神戸線元町駅3分　 電話：[phone]

食料品
KOBE HALAL FOOD （代表：カーン幸代＝日本人？）。650-0004　神戸市中央区中山手通2-17-3　西島ビル１F。
電話[phone]。　e-mail : kobehalalfood at yahoo.co.jp

delivery
http://hararu-kitchen.com/obento/halal.html
https://jp.halalbento.tokyo/

east Japan
http://www.karaokemanekineko.jp/shop/kanto-area/tokyo/yotsuyasantyome.html
「カラオケ本舗まねきねこ四谷三丁目店」にはムスリムフレンドリーメニュー

http://www.raumen.co.jp/
新横浜ラーメン博物館内に出店している「こむらさき」と「NARUMI-IPPUDO」には
ムスリムフレンドリーメニューがあるそう

general info
http://www.muslim-guide.jp/
http://kyoto.travel/muslim/

a Japanese ginger,ミョウガ

a Japanese ginger:ミョウガ

This morning I planted four strains Japanese ginger called "Myouga".
Because flowerpot is too small, I will plant transfer later.
I think Japanese ginger is important seasoning of Japanese.