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tomverlaine

tomverlaine

Native language:
English
Total orders:
2471
Nationality:
United States
Residence:
Japan
Skills
  • Exam Preparation
  • Business English
  • American English
  • Beginner
  • Kids
  • Advanced
  • EIKEN
  • TOEIC
  • TOEFL
  • IELTS
  • Teaching License
Certifications
TEFL/TESOL certified
Announcements
Experienced English teacher from the US, living in Japan.
Hobbies/Travel
My favorite hobbies are music, weightlifting, and studying Japanese. My favorite country is Japan, where I live, although I'm from the USA and have family and many friends there. My most interesting visit to another country (besides Japan) was to South Korea in 2011. The highlight of that vacation was visiting the DMZ border of North Korea, which was a very intense experience.
Message from the instructor
My text correction style is somewhat minimalistic, unless a "drastic change" or "formal," etc. is requested, as I do my best to preserve customers' words and ideas, and although I'm strict about grammar and punctuation, I also try to be as intuitive as possible so that my corrections don't result in failing to get the point across that they're trying to make.
  • Hikaru123

    Hikaru123

    Thank you for your explanations. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

    ★★★★★
  • Hikaru123

    Hikaru123

    Thank you for your explanations and suggestions. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

    ★★★★★
  • Hikaru123

    Hikaru123

    Thank you for your explanations and suggestions. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

    ★★★★★
  • Tomoofk

    Tomoofk

    Thank you for detailed feedback and suggestions improve my sentences. Now I understand how your corrections work well to deliver what I wanted to say!

    ★★★★★
  • ie1133

    ie1133

    Dear Teacher Tom san "it didn't take a "shortcut" and was more definitive," It interests me very much when you say without the, it is a shortcut. I see the is very sensitive. I'm sorry to have troubled you by my vague and ambiguous long sentence, which may seem to you a Zen dialogue and give you just a confusion. What I wanted to mean is the big data doesn’t explaine the cause and effect relation between refilling immediately and feeling happy in everyday life, but the big data shows the fact that I mentioned. I assume it has something to do with a character or tendency of mind each people has. Best regards,

    ★★★★★
  • Tomoofk

    Tomoofk

    Thank you for your feedback and helpful suggestions and tips as always. Yes, this is the great topic to work on, too!

    ★★★★★
  • Hikaru123

    Hikaru123

    Thank you for your explanations and suggestions. I leaned a lot. I noticed the missing “do” in my previous entry on my own when I read the piece returned from you, so there is no problem. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

    ★★★★★
  • Tomoofk

    Tomoofk

    Thank you for your detailed feedback and helpful tips to use cumulative adjectives! Have a nice Obon week, too.

    ★★★★★
  • Hikaru123

    Hikaru123

    Thank you for your explanations and suggestions. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

    ★★★★★
  • Tomoofk

    Tomoofk

    Thank you for your feedback and detailed suggestions as always! It really was an interesting exercise.

    ★★★★★
  • Tomoofk

    Tomoofk

    Thank you for your detailed feedback as always. Sorry to hear about your friend, but relieved that he is OK now. This summer’s temperature is really terrible!

    ★★★★★
  • heidina

    heidina

    Thank you very much your kind explanation!

    ★★★★★
  • Hikaru123

    Hikaru123

    Thank you for your explanations. I also enjoyed reading your message. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

    ★★★★★
  • Hikaru123

    Hikaru123

    Thank you for your explanations and suggestions. I look forward to taking your lesson again.

    ★★★★★
  • Tomoofk

    Tomoofk

    Thanks for your feedback and detailed comments as always. I now understand how the word “inherit” works properly!

    ★★★★★

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