{"id":15,"date":"2023-05-02T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:57:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:57:34","slug":"profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/en\/profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"profile-top\">\n<div class=\"top-text-en\">Profile<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Name: Koji Muraki (Mark)<br \/>\nOccupation: Former salaryman, currently a freelancer<br \/>\nAge: Late 40s<br \/>\nLocation: Bangkok, Thailand<\/p>\n<p>I used to be an ordinary company employee in my 40s, until July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I live in Bangkok and work as a freelancer.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I live abroad, I couldn&#8217;t speak any English from my student days to my 30s.<\/p>\n<p>However, once I understood just one basic grammar rule, I quickly started to grasp English.<\/p>\n<p>Based on my experience of becoming proficient in English by starting from the basics of grammar again, I share &#8220;Restart English&#8221; with adults all over Japan through Twitter, blogs, stand.fm, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<p>Heard about the opportunity for promotion with a TOEIC score of 500 or above.<br \/>\nStarted attending English conversation classes after work. First, learned from native teachers.<br \/>\nIt was enjoyable but didn&#8217;t really stick. Tried changing teachers a few times, but it didn&#8217;t work.<br \/>\nLearned basic English grammar from a Japanese teacher and restarted from the fundamentals.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s where I learned just one fundamental way of thinking and English started to make sense!<\/p>\n<p>Achievements:<\/p>\n<p>Visited 18 countries, mainly in Southeast Asia.<br \/>\nResided in Bangkok for 4 years, plus 1 years after leaving my salaryman job.<br \/>\nTOEIC score of 935, Eiken Grade 2, Practical Thai Language Proficiency Test Level 3.<br \/>\nStarted operating on Twitter in January 2020. As of June 2023, I have 31,000 followers.<br \/>\nEngaged in online English and Thai language courses, Twitter consulting, and other freelance activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile Name: Koji Muraki (Mark) Occupation: Former salaryman, currently a freelancer Age: Late 40s Location: Bangkok, Thailand I used to be an ordinary company employee in my 40s, until July 2021. Now, I live in Bangkok and work as a freelancer. Even though I live abroad, I couldn&#8217;t speak any English from my student days to my 30s. However, once I understood just one basic grammar rule, I quickly started to grasp English. Based on my experience of becoming proficient in English by starting from the basics of grammar again, I share &#8220;Restart English&#8221; with adults all over Japan through &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/?page_id=13","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markapex.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}