Sneak Peak at my current Projects (Free Japanese Lessons!)

I’m going to keep this super short, since it’s only a sneak peak and not a not-sneaky-peak. This will officially be announced on Monday, most likely, but I thought I’d do a little shout out from here first, since you’re all pretty cool froods, who know where your towel’s at.

So, as a lot of you know, I started doing private Japanese tutoring on eduFire, and I’ve been having a lot of fun doing it. I’ve gotten to meet all sorts of great people (mostly folks from here), and it’s even helped me understand Japanese more on a more technical level (teaching something is so much different than doing something).

But, despite the fact that I’ve always told people to go join a class, or go find a tutor if they want to learn Japanese (well), I’ve also tried to find ways to help people learn Japanese for free, without losing too much of the quality that you get in a classroom or from a private tutor.

So, what I’m trying to say is…I’m going to start making some video lessons, and you’ll be able to view them right over on Youtube, and you’ll be able to view them for free (of course). I’ll even post some of them up here on Tofugu, though this blog will still continue to keep it’s focus on how to learn Japanese language and culture, rather than directly teaching it directly.

Time for some transparency. I think it’s really important that people know everything, so you don’t think there’s any ulterior motives going on. So, yes, the videos will be through an eduFire branded Youtube channel (edufirejapanese), and yes, I will always suggest you get private tutoring, and yes, I’m even doing some non-tutoring work for eduFire. I am biased towards eduFire as being a ridiculously awesome company, because, well, they are. Seriously, it’s the future of online learning. No doubt about it.

So there you have it. I’m making Japanese lesson videos on another channel, and this website won’t suffer from it. In fact, it should only help, I’m hoping. Mostly, I’ve put up beginning Japanese videos, but I’ll be doing some more this weekend before Monday’s kickoff. I’m not going to go into the why you should subcribe to this channel until Monday, but I’m telling you, there are all sorts of great reasons, which include possibly getting free (private) lessons as well as even cooler information I can’t even divulge right now. Go check it out!

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