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English Lessons for the Discriminating Student
Mister Micawber offers PRIVATE PERSON-TO-PERSON LESSONS in conversational, academic and business English, as well as TOEFL, TOEIC, Eiken STEP and IELTS test preparation. He concentrates on speaking and listening, using a variety of commercial and original materials.
Only ten minutes by foot from Ishikawa-cho Station on the JR Negishi Line (or 15 minutes from Isezaki-chojamachi Station on the Yokohama Subway) in Yokohama, Mister Micawber has a well-appointed teaching room with audio-visual and reference facilities.
Find Mister Micawber's: Just zoom in to Yokohama on the Google map here!
Fees range from 10,000 to 12,000 yen per month for weekly one-hour person-to-person lessons. If you are serious about improving your English, arrange a FREE sample lesson by e-mailing to MisterMicawber@gmail.com.
Mister Micawber also operates ONLINE PROOFREADING AND EDITING SERVICES via email. Essays and reports, emails and business letters, recipes and instructions – Mister Micawber can check any of your written materials for grammatical accuracy and good style at competitive rates and with prompt responses. In addition, he offers LESSONS IN ENGLISH WRITING via email. Payment by PAYPAL is accepted.
With his remaining free time, Mister Micawber moderates at a very reputable internet English grammar forum, which he invites you to visit: ENGLISH FORUMS.
Mr. Micawber is Canadian-American, holds a BA in English, an AA in Business Administration, and an Advanced Certificate in TEFL, and he has taught at schools like GEOS, YMCA and SIMUL, and also at companies like Sony, Toshiba and Nissan. He holds a 3-dan in kyudo and is an occasional poet.
For interested students, Mister Micawber's accent is classified as NORTHERN AMERICAN:
| What American accent does Mister Micawber really have?
The Result: Northern
His accent is Northern, which used to be the media standard in the '50s and '60s. His accent could either be Inland Northern (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo) or the more broadcasting-friendly Upstate NY/Western New England accent. Outsiders probably ask him a lot if he's from Chicago or Wisconsin. |
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| Created on GoToQuiz: What American Accent Do You Have? | |