Testimonials

“After col­lege, I needed a way to con­tinue my  lan­guage study. I am very lucky I found Hills Learn­ing. With Hills Learn­ing you get a very per­son­al­ized expe­ri­ence. You tell them your goals and what you want to learn and the teach­ers cus­tomize the lessons to fit your needs. The head of the com­pany even shows up at your first trial les­son to make sure that you are get­ting exactly what you want. Not only that, but the price of the lessons are half of what most tutor­ing com­pa­nies are ask­ing. In addi­tion to great lan­guage instruc­tion, the staff goes out of their way to help you with with other things you may need relat­ing to study. My tutor, as well as the head of the com­pany, has helped me research jobs in Japan, and write my resume in Japan­ese. This has been extremely help­ful to me in my job search and I am very grate­ful to them.”

– Recent Col­lege Grad­u­ate Who Now Works in Japan

“The teacher is excel­lent and the lan­guage is very inter­est­ing for me so I am really enjoy­ing the experience.”

- Stu­dent who recently got back from Haiti Relief Operations

“I was con­sid­er­ing look­ing up a teacher to keep up my Japan­ese lan­guage stud­ies on Craigslist when I found this amaz­ing com­pany. I had a free trial les­son with my teacher in the pres­ence of the company’s direc­tor, who explained the whole sys­tem clearly. There are no sur­prises and I felt com­pletely safe. My teacher and I sched­ule lessons when and where I want them. I’ve been tak­ing lessons for over 4 months now and I love my lessons and my teacher! We’re study­ing for the Japan­ese Lan­guage Pro­fi­ciency Test, level 1 (the hard­est level) — with her encour­age­ment, I seri­ously think I have a good chance.‎”

- Toy­ota Employee

“My teacher has been won­der­fully pre­pared and enthu­si­as­tic about tai­lor­ing lessons to suit my requests and inter­ests. I couldn’t have found a bet­ter tutor! We cov­ered pretty much every­thing on my list of goals and even more. And, it was quite fun. Thank you for offer­ing such a great service!”

- Art Design Scholar

“After trawl­ing through Craigslist and var­i­ous online sites, I was lucky enough to find Hills Learn­ing. Tuition rates are much more afford­able than with com­pa­ra­ble orga­ni­za­tions in the city and my teacher has been superb.”

- Finan­cial Analyst

“The entire les­son was in Japan­ese, and I could under­stand her Japan­ese, which is always a big plus. Also, I like her ideas about the con­ver­sa­tion part of the les­son rang­ing from struc­tured speak­ing drills to read­ing and dis­cussing arti­cles. I am an extremely shy per­son, but she loos­ened me up halfway towards the end after I was embar­rassed about not being able to get through the gram­mar work­sheet on my own, which she helped me through.”

- Colum­bia Student

“In gen­eral I am very sat­is­fied at this point. We have been focus­ing more on con­ver­sa­tion prac­tice in my last 4 or 5 lessons, though some­how we have also cov­ered a good deal of gram­mat­i­cal mate­r­ial. My teacher is very skilled at shap­ing the con­ver­sa­tion as it devel­ops so that I feel chal­lenged but not over­whelmed. I def­i­nitely feel more con­fi­dent with my speak­ing abil­ity, which makes me feel great; and I am much more com­fort­able with some gram­mar con­cepts that have stymied me before.”

- Mar­ket­ing Professional

“The classes are very help­ful, and I feel like I’m learn­ing a lot.”

- Busi­ness Owner