About Japanese Tutor NZ
Personalised Japanese tutoring lessons from experienced and qualified Japanese tutors. With customised in-person and one-to-one video call lessons, and email reporting and personal study tips for each student.
Our Approach
1. Fully-Customised Lessons
We offer personalised lessons, designed for you, based on your goals in learning Japanese and your current language ability level.
We specialise in helping students with NCEA or JLPT assessments.
2. In-Person Live Lessons
In-person live lesson either by video or at our teaching venue
3. Summary Email Reports
After every lesson, we provide a lesson summary, and additional notes and homework to help you continue your studies before you next lesson.
Our Tutors
Director & Head Tutor
Rie
I am an enthusiastic teacher of Japanese language and culture, having been teaching both in Japan and here in New Zealand to a variety of ages, abilities, and nationalities for over 12 years. This has included classroom lessons in Japan and at primary and high school level, as well as private tuition with university-level students. I pride myself on being a well-organised and diligent tutor and am always seeking the best for my students – whatever their personal Japanese learning goals may be!
Tutoring Experience
- Private one-on-one tutoring at japanesetutor.co.nz 3+ years
- International Exchange Centre – Japan, 6 years.
- Auckland University tutoring programme.
- Auckland Girls Grammar – part-time tutoring.
- Freemans Bay Primary School – part-time tutoring.
I have a Certificate in Teaching Japanese (for non-native speakers) from Osaka Japanese Language Centre.
Flexible times and rate-structures available.
If you’d like to enquire about lessons or have any questions, please contact me using the form below or email me at rie@japanesetutor.co.nz
NCEA & JLPT N5 Specialist Tutor
Grace
Hi! My name is Grace, and I major in Japanese and Film Studies at Victoria University. I started studying Japanese in high school and quickly fell in love with learning the language, so I have since continued to study Japanese throughout NCEA and now at university.
I achieved Excellence endorsement in NCEA Japanese at levels 1, 2, and 3, and received the Top of Class award from my high school for Japanese every year from 2017-2020. In 2019, I was one of two students selected from my school to take part in a 3-month high school exchange in Sapporo, Hokkaido. After this wonderful experience, I knew that I wanted to come back to Japan for further study in the future so in 2022 I applied for the MEXT Japanese Studies Scholarship from the Japanese Government, and was lucky enough to receive this scholarship. I am now currently studying Japanese Language at Waseda University in Tokyo on this scholarship, since September 2022. I also have experience taking the JLPT, having passed N3 in 2021 and I am hoping to take the N2 exam by the end of this year!
I have tutored students of different ages in the past, including tutoring Japanese to high school students, and I found it was something I really enjoy. As someone with NCEA, JLPT, and MEXT Japanese Government scholarship experience, I think I can offer a lot of advice to learners of Japanese and share the knowledge I have gained over the years. Tutoring can be a very rewarding experience for both the student and the tutor, and I am really looking forward to helping other students enjoy learning Japanese as much as I do!
Qualifications
- JLPT N3 endorsement
- MEXT Japanese scholarship
- NCEA Excellence in Japanese
What Our Students Say About Us
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Well structured and easy to follow lessons.
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Rie is a very kind teacher I enjoy our sessions and have improved a lot thanks to her. She makes our lessons fun and is really supportive which has made me more confident in my abilities coming up to my school exams. She caters the sessions to what you need help on the most and is very organised always sending notes with the vocabulary we went over after the lesson and preparing content in advance.
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Rie is a fantastic teacher for students of any level. She tailors her teaching to your speed, and focuses on the outcome you want from your learning - whether that's to do well at NCEA, sit a JLPT, or give you the conversational skills to travel or live in Japan. I have enjoyed my lessons with Rie so much and my Japanese skill has improved immensely. I highly recommend Rie for anyone looking to learn or brush up on their Japanese.
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Every week I am looking forward to my Japanese lessons with Rie-せんせい.
I have progressed so much since I started 9months ago.
She adapts the lessons to her student's needs and makes it a fun but nonetheless challenging experience. She also shares some information about Japanese culture, which is always interesting.
Definitely recommend if you are looking to learn or improve your Japanese.
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Helps me not only improve on the reading and writing knowledge I need to pass my exams but the wider world concepts like speaking, listening, and cultural aspects too so that I can actually be able to put my knowledge into practice in the real world.