Japanese for home educators

About this episode

The episode explores effective methods for learning Japanese as a home educator, featuring insights from language teacher Kenia Lopez.

Today's podcast dives down into learning Japanese when you're home educated, from the early steps through immersion right up to GCSE. Kenia guides us through the best ways to learn, what to expect in the exam and even gives us some fun phrases in Japanese to throw into conversation. 行こう! With Kenia Lopez- Hello! I am Kenia. I teach French, Japanese, Spanish and English online! I have been a language teacher for over 20 years in primary and secondary schools in France, Japan, USA and running my own language courses in Ireland and in the UK. I am also a home educator! - Kenia's Website - Kenia's Facebook page This podcast is a labour of love, and time and energy and commitment and lots of coffee! It really helps us if you can follow us on our social media channels and comment to let us know if you enjoyed the episode, what you'd like to see more / less of and generally come and say hi! Instagram - TikTok - FB page - Our Private FB group

People in this episode

Host: Eleanor Marker

Guest: Kenia Lopez

Topics covered

• language learning
• Japanese
• home education
• immersion
• GCSE preparation

Keywords

• Japanese
• home education
• language learning
• immersion
• GCSE

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kenia's Website, Kenia's Facebook page, Instagram, TikTok, FB page, Our Private FB group

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