Donguri Kai – Level 1
Donguri Kai – Level 1
Donguri Kai – Level 1
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Offering students multiple ways to study Japanese
JASC offers students the opportunity to begin studying Japanese both in-person at a class held at the JASC or virtually in an online class via Zoom.
Summer 2024 our Level 1 Online Class has an 8 week session.
ONLINE
A class for returning Level 1 students and for first time students in primary grades.
Tuesdays, 5:30 pm – 6:15 pm (Central Time)
This class is for students returning students who completed Level 1 New Students Class or students 3rd – 6th grade who will learn Japanese for the first time. Students learn Japanese vocabulary, basic greetings, and conversational phrases. Class is taught in English.
Class size: 6 students
Instructor: Airi Okura
Class registration is now closed – class is full.
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Akemi Taguchi(田口あけみ)
A journalist once said, “As a student, I learned from wonderful teachers, and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.” I have been teaching children for the last 30 years both in Japan and the United States. I have taught both in the classroom and as a Japanese teacher, and I am now so fortunate to be part of a great community of learners and teachers here at Donguri Kai. I hope to enjoy our journey to learn about this wonderful Japanese language and culture.
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Kaori Tabion(タビオン果織)
After 10 years of working in the healthcare industry, Ms. Tabion started with Ms. Yatsuda a study group teaching Japanese to their kids and friends. In 2017, she started Donguri Kai at JASC and has been teaching since. She is a member of an international research community of kanji teaching methods in multilingual children at Learn Japan.
Airi Okura
I am currently living in Osaka, Japan. I worked for a couple years in Chicago, then moved back to Japan in August 2023. I have been teaching children for 6 years. I worked at an international school in Japan teaching Japanese to international students for 4 years. Hope to make my class fun for children to teach Japanese and culture through Donguri Kai.