Attendance rate of past 1 month 99% ★★★★★ (123/124)
Location / Japanese Level
Home / No
Hobby / Interesting
Reading, writing, playing badminton, travelling, photography, cooking, dancing etc.
Level
Side by Side・Beginner・Middle Level・High Level
Message
Konichiwa! I am most honored to have you in my class!
I know, I do have a foreign sounding name. Most of my friends and foreign friends call me Melai, a full-time ESL teacher, and a part-time travel, culture, and lifestyle writer, also a freelance photographer.
I have been teaching in iTalk for 9 years straight. I am enjoying my current work set-up since I can teach from the comfort of my room while I travel different countries in Southeast Asia. However, when I am not traveling, you can catch me at the office.
Book my class and have an enjoyable learning experience with me.
I teach you from my house. I'm sorry I can't use some texts.If you like to use the specific text ,Please send me or iTalk support Tokyo during the day time.
自宅からのレッスンとなりますため一部テキストが使用できません。生徒様のお持ちのテキストを使い受講したい場合はスカイプで事前に送っていただきますと受講できます。Tokyo office へはまとめて送っていただくことも可能です。
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• Let's study with these texts
(When you book me, please copy and paste these titles by message)
IELTS | TOEIC | TOEFL
Pre; Intermediate; Advanced
IELTS is the world's most popular English test for higher education and global migration.
TOEIC is "an English language test designed specifically to measure the everyday English skills of people...
Thank you so much, Fraxie.
It was an enjoyable, tactful class, as always, from the material based on the article 'Rising auto insurance premiums fuelling inflation' that you kindly selected on April 21 2024.
I don't have a vehicle, so I'm not sure the latest auto insurance fee.
As I said in the lesson, having your own car is a kind of symbol of wealth in Tokyo.
Not only car insurance, but car parking lot, maintenance fee are expensive. Due to labor shortage, the repair fee of fender bender is expensive for now. Especially, the car parking lot is exrobitantn. The rental fee of a small apartment in the countryside is the same as that of a parking space in downtown Tokyo.
In addition, even after purchasing a condominium in Tokyo, monthly fee of car parking is necessary.
(Some of the condos, monthly fee of car parking is not required.)
Anyway, I'm looking forward to taking your next class.
Gaku
2024-04-15
Thank you so much, Fraxie.
It was an enjoyable, tactful class, as always, from the material based on the article 'Japan's elderly population living alone to jump 47% by 2050' that you kindly selected on April 15 2024.
As I mentioned in the lesson, most of Japanese people are reluctant to live with parents-in-law for the following reasons.
1) Japanese people don't like to be interfered by parents-in-law, especially their children's education.
2) Japanese people would feel stress, because they are likely to be too considerate of parents-in-law.
A husband or a wife will loss his/her partner sooner or later.
Therefore, the number of elderly population living alone in Japan is expected to skyrocket in the future.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to taking your next class.
Yoshiko
2024-04-13
Thank you for showing the interesting article of patent translation. I'm looking forward to talking to you again.
Gaku
2024-04-09
Thank you so much, Fraxie.
It was an enjoyable, tactful class, as always, from the material based on the article 'UN warns of environmental e-waste catastrophe' that you kindly selected on April 7 2024.
Nowadays, there are lots of EVs, electric vehicles, in the world. It is often said that an EV is more envilronmentaly-friendly than a conventional petrol vechile. However, many poeple are not aware how the batteries of EVs are disposed. As I looked for the answer, most of the discarded batteries are re-used, but some of them don't get re-cycled. The batteies are hard to be disassemble, and it's difficult to extract rare metals from them.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to taking your next class.
