Hello, I’m asking for my fiancée, who is Japanese
She’s living with her parents and looking for a job for now, but we are working on a K1 visa and she wants to build on her English as much as she can before moving to America some time next year. With an onslaught of changes and new stresses that will come with that territory, we’d like to get a head start on easing any approaching difficulties by choosing present eustress over future distress..
Lessons she’s found on her own are 1万/hour and for something that, when you’re wanting real results, ideally would be daily, we don’t really have 20万 a month laying around. Obviously, though, this will be an investment so we don’t want to cheap out, either.
Anyway we want to avoid low-quality or scammy high-promise/low-delivery English schools, and would prefer native (and *qualified*) teachers who can help her focus and organize her learning so she’s not aimlessly staring at books for two hours a day hoping something sticks long enough for her to use in a conversation.
She’s more of a learn-by-doing sort, and we’re trying to speak more English with each other. This is helping, but we’re thinking having a dedicated learning environment (not necessarily physically) could help her compartmentalize and better absorb what she needs to learn.
Are there any reliable resources that could point us in the right direction? Or advice in general?
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Thank you!
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some universities have open classes for people in the community to sign up to. If your fiancee doesn’t have a job right now that might be a good thing to do, especially more intensive stuff like 2 or 3 hours a day.
My husband is fluent in English and he got his conversational ability by studying at Nova, which is one of the English school chains. The other big one is Aeon (not to be confused with the shopping mall conglomerate). I don’t think those places are that cheap but it worked out well for my husband.
Out of 英会話 schools, the people I know who have gone here are a lot better than people who have attended the average 英会話. The owner is Japanese but the other teachers are native, and they’re both in Tokyo and online. They’re not cheap but not 1万/hour expensive [https://preciousoneenglishschool.jp](https://preciousoneenglishschool.jp)
If she learns by doing, look into something online.
I learn Japanese and practice Italian on iTalki. You can choose your own teachers or speaking partners, there’s no contracts and there are a lot of affordable options.
Of course some teachers are better than others, but that’s the same at language schools too. At least with iTalki, you’re in control.
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