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2024-05-10 20:23:00

TikTok Project in progress

Hi everyone,

How's studying going?

This is Masa :)
How are you?

Today, I would like to share with you a quick heads up on my TikTok project.

https://www.tiktok.com/@asaolanguageschool

It's been about 3 months since I restarted and now I welcome 270 followers.

First and foremost, I would like to thank those who have been watching and leaving encouraging comments and thumb ups on my posts.

It is a simple enough content that I am making but posting everyday can only work with the assuring feeling that there is somebody waiting so thank you!

Going forward, welcoming your questions and requests and me responding to those will be an essential part so if you have any wonder, doubts or opinions, please give them to me. I will appreciate that :)

To new teachers, this project is my personal challenge as well as a test to see if teaching Japanese in English (Indirect Method) actually works better than Direct Method or is effective at all.

So, please do not worry. You will not have to be an English speaker to teach at Asao. You will be teaching in Japanese :)

Will keep you posted!

Masa

2024-04-16 14:17:00

Certified Japanese Teachers - 10

Hi everyone,

How are you?

This is Masa.

How's your Japanese studying going?

First of all, thank you so much for joining us for the Pub Night in March
We hope you enjoyed it :)

Our next event will be held on Saturday the 27th of April. We are planning to have a short day trip to the city of Odawara. We will be visiting the castle and the fish market by the bay and have a barbecue with fresh seafood there.

These are the photos from our last trip to Odawara in 2019.
It was a lot of fun!

https://www.meetup.com/aspiring-japanese-teachers/photos/30554925/

If a few people are interested in the idea, we will go ahead with it :)

Please contact either me at asaolanguage@gmail.com or Taito sensei at taito.asaolanguage@gmail.com or on his Line https://line.me/ti/p/n8yqj_PTgR to let us know if you are interested by Wednesday the 17th!
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The photo is from Takashi Uematsu sensei and here is his introduction.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgsnOf_hAN9/

He teaches lessons with us both in person and online :)
He is also actively offering lessons on Discord. Outside our Discord community, he is popular with those who are studying JLPT Preparation, BJT Preparation and Business Japanese. If you want to work on your honorific Japanese or some practical Japanese that are required in the business scenes, please try his lesson :)

Looking forward to hearing from you!

宜しくお願い致します。

Masa

2024-03-30 15:48:00

Thank you so much for joining us last night :)

Hi everyone,

How are you?

This is Masa.

Thank you so much for joining us for the Pub Night last night :)

We had fun! 

For the next event in April, we will be organising something else rather than a Pub Night. 

During the event last night, we came up with a few ideas. They include Walking tour in the National Diet Building, Walking tour with Taito sensei in the old downtown Tokyo, Monnzennnakachou, Cruising by Yakatabune in Tokyo Bay, Cooking class, Carp fishing in Iidabashi, and so on.

Does any of the above interest you? We are always open to suggestions :) 

To get in touch with us, please email Taito sensei at taito.asaolanguage@gmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you!

Masa

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2024-03-19 09:37:00

A quick heads up on our classroom in Shinjuku

Hi everyone,

How's your studying going?

Today, we would like to share with you an update regarding our classroom in Shinjuku.

We have been informed that the management company is soon refurbishing the 43 year old building where our classroom is located.

We have therefore decided to relocate ourselves to avoid the hustle and bustle :)

If you have your regular lessons at our current location, you have probably noticed that there are already constructions going on on both sides of the building and they are going to work on ours as well.

We have been using the classroom since the start of Asao project.
With lots of memories, we feel a little nostalgic letting it go but we believe this will bring us all a positive change in the end.

We'll let you know the details of our temporary and new locations individually by email.

This will not affect your regular and new lesson schedule :)

Looking forward to seeing you at the Pub Night!

Masa

2024-03-08 17:43:00

Cultural / Social Activity in March 2024 - Asao Pub Night

Hi everyone,

How are you?
How's your studying going?

I just wanted to give you a quick heads up on our monthly event :)

The next one, Asao Pub Night, is going to take place from 19:30 on Friday the 29th of March. It is a casual get together that welcomes Japanese learners and teachers.

We will have a chat to get to know each other a little over a drink or tea at a selected pub in the city :)

The venue we are considering at the moment is the following place in Mitsukoshimae

https://mie-terrace.jp/#restaurant-box

It's a shop as well as a restaurant that sells regional foods and products from Mie prefecture.

Ryo Takasugi san, the owner of Okumatsusaka https://www.instagram.com/okumatsusaka/ visited the place after the Mochi Pounding event and he recommends it. The pricing is wonderful too!

Soon, Yuka sensei will be making an announcement confirming the details :)

Looking forward to seeing you!

Masa

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