Nishida, Mariko

Mariko Nishida is a professionally qualified and experienced language teacher. Mariko loves learning and teaching languages. She spends a lifetime learning languages, starting with Japanese and English and moving on to French, Spanish, and Russian, so far. She knows what it's like to arrive in a place she has never been before and how it feels to be totally lost in unfamiliar streets and languages. Things we do every day and take for granted can become great challenges when we suddenly become functionally illiterate, deaf, and mute. That helps Mariko to understand the language learner's point