Better Than Nothing Even Though It's Too late

Dear members,

I am very, very sorry for not having tried renewing my blog page until now. I should have renewed at the beginning of January this year, saying, "Happy New Year"「あけまして　おめでとうございます。」 I admit I was too lazy. Sorry.

I still think it is better than nothing, so I attach some photos with members from my last trip to NY. I hope you will enjoy them.

Kris Is Coming Back To White Plains At The End Of November

Hello, everyone! How have you been?

I have not written anything in this blog page such a long time, but I finally have something to write here. Yes, I am coming back to NY at the end of November. It has been very difficult for me to decide when to come back there, but JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) , which a few of members will take makes me decide to come at the end of November. I am very glad to hear that they decide to take the test though they are supposed to study very hard to prepare for the test. I am sure they are learning a lot when they prepare for the test and that may be the most important thing as a motivation of learning a foreign language.

Anyway it is time for me to plan the lesson schedule during my stay there. I would like you to think about taking a face-to-face lesson with me while I am there, please. I will send you a mail with a schedule document file with which I hope you can schedule to have a lesson with me. I will arrive there on Thanksgiving, November 27th, and will stay there for 14 days, leaving there on December 11th. I will stay at the same hotel as before and would like to have lessons in my hotel room.

Esplanade at White Plains
95 S Broadway White Plains, NY 10601
+1 914-761-8100
(The entrance is on Lion Pl.)

Hope I can see as many members as possible when I come back to NY this time. Looking forward to seeing you. See you soon.

Kris

Awaji Island Festival on August 2nd.

Kris participated in Awaji Island festival on August 2nd. There were two types of dancing: male style and female style. As you can see, Kris danced male style. It was fun and I just wanted to introduce this to the members as one of Japanese culture. Hope you will enjoy the photos.

More Photos Of On-line Lessons

It has been longer than one month since On-line lessons of 日本語 With Kris started in June. It seems to be working very well. And Kris has now five on-line lesson students and one of them is a girl, who is the first femail on-line student. Kris is really happy with them. Here are some more photos of them.

Finally On-line Lesson Started

Hello, everyone!

Kris finally started on-line lessons in the first week of June. It is now one month since then, and it seems to be working very well, which makes Kris so happy. Yes, I am very happy with this. There are four on-line students so far, and, what is better, one of them is a new member of '日本語 With Kris', which means Kris met that student online for the first time. It was a little difficult to have the exact first lesson with a new student without face-to-face meeting each other before, but I'd say nothing was difficult any longer after the second lesson.

I may not be allowed to put the name of this here, but this is a personal blog page. So maybe OK, but I really want to say that 'skype' is super, super great. Thanks to skype, we can have 0n-line lessons. We can also use 'skype' chatting to write down and show it to each other during the lesson which is very useful. So far, so good! I hope every 0n-line student feels the same way as I, and this will help others taking on-line lessons or even thinking of taking lessons.

Anyway let's enjoy studying Japanese on-line more, shall we?

Kris's Favorite City, White Plains

While I was in White Plains this time, I took a short walk in the city of White Plains when I had a spare time. Every time I fly there, I find myself feeling so comfortable as if it were my home town. I love White Plains, though the apartment where I used to live has already been torn down and there is no more evidence of my living there. These have nothing with 日本語 With Kris, but I woudl like to show a few photos of the city I took this time. White Plains.......such a wonderful city........ I love it. Hope you will also enjoy the photos .

Thank You For Taking Lessons With Kris, In May

I finally fly back to Japan safely. It was great to see many of you in NY. And I really enjoyed having lessons with you. More and more enjoyable! And I was also impressed a lot by some of you, who have been making a big progress in studying Japanese. I do hope '日本語 With Kris' is helping you with your study Japanese even a little, and will help you to be more confident to speak Japanese to Japanese people when you have much of a chance to come to Japan. I hope none of you will mind my adding those pictures I took while I was there this time to this blog page.

Thank you very much for coming to my hotel and taking lessons with me.

Kris