Our Tutors

  • Awurabena Kessie - English Tutor

    Awurabena Kessie spent 3 years teaching English at Elementary and Junior High Schools in Japan. She also has 2 years experience teaching English to Japanese students in London.  Living in 3 countries has left her with a great love of language, culture and an ability to speak Twi (a Ghanaian Language) and Japanese. She is currently studying to become a qualified Speech and Language Therapist. 

  • Tom Foskin - English Tutor
    Tom Foskin is from Ireland and studied History and Sociology at UCC before spending two years in Japan on the JET Programme where he was based in Kumamoto. He has been in London now for 5 years - the majority of this time he spent managing So Restaurant. He was therefore able to feed his cravings for Japanese food on a daily basis!
     
  • Mikiko Maedomari - Tutor of Japanese

    Mikiko Maedomari comes from the small but beautiful island of Ishigaki, part of Okinawa prefecture in the deep south of Japan.  She used to teach at junior high school in Japan, but moved over to England to live with her British husband.  She is now a qualified Japanese teacher and enjoying life living in London!

  • Naomi Takahata

    Naomi Takahata is a native Japanese teacher who is passionate about languages. At university in Japan, she studied German as well as English. After graduation, she competed an intensive course to become a Japanese teacher.

    Naomi came to the UK 4 years ago to study English and eventually completed MA in translation at Newcastle university.  "I have experience of teaching Japanese both in Japan and the UK. Teaching Japanese is fun for me!  I teach Japanese cultures and Japanese life along with Japanese language." she says.

  • Rob Collinson - English Tutor

    Rob Collinson is a professional trombone player and teacher who works with various orchestras in the UK and abroad. He went to two of the UK's top music conservatoires before deciding to move to Japan for three years to pursue his music whilst learning about Japanese culture. He lived in Kansai and played with the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra which was conducted by Yutaka Sado.

  • Fran Bigman - English Tutor

    Fran Bigman majored in history at Brown University in Rhode Island and then spent two years on the JET programme in Tottori City teaching senior high-school students.

    Fran has taught EFL to adults at Fluency in English, a school in Cambridge and tutored many students privately both in Japan and the US.  She has a MPhil in English from Cambridge and is starting her PhD there in October 2010.

    Her hobbies include swimming, watching films from the 1940s, and cooking Indian food, and she is the oldest of seven children.