Profile

 

 

Hello. I am Akiko Taguchi,

 

a Japanese lady, born in Japan.

  

I studied language,

 

taught it for a decade, and

 

now live in Austria, engaged in the language profession

 

in English, German and Japanese.

 

Born in 1979, Tottori/Japan

 

1997 - 2001  Japanese Language Education, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education,

                     Hiroshima University, Japan (Bachelor of Education)

 

2002 - 2003  International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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2001 - 2004  Comparative and International Education, Department of Educational Studies, Graduate School of Education, 

                     Hiroshima University, Japan  (Master of Education)

 

2004 - 2014  Worked as Japanese language teacher in secondary schools in Japan

 

2014 - 2015  MA Applied Translation Studies, Centre for Translation Studies, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies,     Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Master of Arts)

         

September 2015 -  Working as freelance translator, Proof-reader, DTP Operator in Graz, Austria

                  

January 2018 -   Working as private language teacher for teaching Japanese as a foreign language in Graz, Austria