I am a bilingual speaker of English and Japanese (both native) based in Marylebone, London. Having lived abroad for most of my life, I graduated from a Japanese high school and studied linguistics at university. I hold a master’s degree in British studies from the University of Tokyo and another in linguistics from the University of Oxford. I passed the JLPT N1 when I was 13, so I have first-hand experience of what it is like to study for the JLPT. I have been teaching Japanese to advanced learners for several years, and I look forward to meeting many motivated learners through this platform. I have a Tokyo-based (i.e., “standard”) accent in Japanese.