Michael DiGiacomo

Michael is the founder of Happy English and a native New Yorker. He has been helping language students for over 20 years here in New York and all over the world including Japan. He began helping international students with English in 1989. His formal language teaching career started in Sendai, Japan in 1994. Since then, he has worked in the ESL field as an instructor, a teacher trainer, an academic director, and a language school manager. Michael has a Bachelor of Music Degree, and earned an MBA in 2004. He is a native English speaker and has been studying and speaking Japanese since 1990.