Hello! My name's Richard Graham. I started Genki English and I'm responsible
for pretty much everything around here.
I've been teaching since the age of 16 and from July 2000 Genki English
has been my full time job as an Education Consultant. This involves travelling
around the world doing teaching training seminars and shows, writing books, newspaper and magazine articles, developing new CDs, software and videos and working on the website. This is a new type of education and
I want to make sure people have as many resources as possible to do it
right!
Before this I spent 3 years working as a participant on the
Japanese government's JET programme in Tamagawa, Ehime.
I had two full time elementary schools which I visited every week, one
Junior High and an adult class of very crazy & fun people. The main
aim of this job was "Internationalisation", which is where
I started teaching "International Understanding" in Elementary
Schools and began Genki English. The main reason was because what was on
offer was so boring the kids were falling asleep. So I used the ideas &
techniques I'd learned in other fields to jazz things up a bit and get
them learning instead of dozing. Things have kind of snowballed from there.
I have also given prize winning presentations for the British Institute of Physics and the accountancy firm Arthur Andersen.
I'm British and I come from the most happening, kicking part of the British
Isles, which is the wonderful county of Yorkshire! I was also the Ehime
Prefecture JET liaison officer to the British Embassy in Tokyo - so please
check out the special UkNow Website
I'm 30 and have a First Class Honours Degree in Physics with Electronics
and Instrumentation (European), having studied at the
University of Leeds (in the UK) and The
Universite Joseph Fourier (in Grenoble, France).
Genki English takes up just about all of my time, but when I was a JET
I was into martial arts, including Aikido, and learned to play the O-Koto. At university I did skiing and Tae Kwon Do. But I spend most of my free time on Music Technology. I've had music featured on TV and radio stations and some of my work is available on my songs page. I've also been a regular guest (speaking in Japanese) on NHK's "TereGoji"
TV programme and various other TV shows.
Please feel free to contact me if you want any more info about the page, or want to drop me a line!
