SOAS graduate, JLPT N1 holder, former NHK (Japan's BBC) employee and Tokyo resident, translator. Friendly and encouraging.

Andy is an excellent teacher who helped me pass JLPT N4. Before we started lessons, my learning progress had stalled and I had become a bit demotivated. Lessons with Andy really helped me progress to the next level - particularly reading, grammar and Kanji. Andy's knowledge and love of Kanji is second to none and his passion for Japanese is infectious!

In my years working with Andy for Japan's equivalent of the BBC, NHK, i found him thoughtful of his audience and his Japanese second to none.

He has a true passion for the language, often harbouring knowledge of it that often surprised and sometimes surpassed the native reporters and correspondents we worked with.

He always enjoyed teaching others the skills that he himself went to great lengths to obtain and was always thoughtful and patient in doing so.

I'm sure anyone employing him will not be disappointed.

Andy is honestly the best Japanese tutor I have ever had, he has an incredibly deep knowledge of Japanese, particularly Kanji, and was very helpful to getting me to finally understand how to learn them and all the while making them fun to understand and learn! Along with that his method of teaching grammar and vocabulary were extremely good and fun to take part in! When it comes to conversation it's great to have someone so encouraging when conversing and really helped to boost my skills and confidence which has made my conversation leaps and bounds better than it ever was
I cannot recommend him enough!