I’m very happy today that I can announce a new Genki English book! There’s always a delay between finishing a project and actually getting it out there, and sometimes the shine wears off in the meantime. So today I went and had another look at the real printed Black & White Minicards book, and it’s like Christmas morning again! I love this book!
Last year when we reprinted the CD4 worksheet book the printers came up with the most amazing glossy paper for it. Ever since, I’ve been wanting to produce something to go in the Superpack that would give it a visual boost, as you can’t really hear the CDs in a bookstore. The thing is that colour was out as it was too expensive, and trials of the kids workbooks failed as teachers were paying too much attention to them at the expense of the kids actually talking, and it took till this Summer for the penny to drop and think of doing the mini cards as a real life black and white book! So now it’s really easy ( and cheap!) for you to do copies for all your kids to play with.
It took a lot of time over Summer putting it together as I basically had to re-do a lot of the artwork in order to make it into an outline form, rather than greyscale, so that kids can easily colour it in. One advantage of this though is that I also redid the A4 cards which you can download from the site. They are all now funkied up, especially the weather cards! And as Genki English is distributed in lots of different ways these days, I also couldn’t mention the new book on the website until everyone’s stocks were updated. So if you bought a Superpack or 5 CD Set this month you probably got this book for free anyway! For everyone else, you can purchase it online or get it for free with the Superpack ( remember to ask your school to pay!) or 5 CD Set. The larger Maruzen bookstores should also be carrying it, so you can get it without post and packing ( but you might have to order it!).
And the other thing I can announce is that we are now shipping even funkier new Superpack cases, with a groovy carrying handle to make it easy to carry around, and the inside has been redesigned to make it easier to get to the CDs and books. With all the stuff in there now it really does feel like a SUPERpack, and is worth every penny of the 24,000 yen.
Right, so it’s back now to making the next set of surprise materials!
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Whatever I’ve done for the last few days the computers just keep crashing. I haven’t had this for ages. Today not just Cubase, but even Flash crashed! I can’t get anything done! I tell you what though there is so much work that goes into the Genki English software, I keep wondering when other people are going to come out with a similar thing, but I don’t think anyone would be mad enough to sit through cutting up so many audio files, not to mention the coding work, which is driving me mad with all these crashes.
And no beach to destress on this week. : (
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Back in Japan now, and for the life in me I can’t think why on Earth I’m back here - it is soooo expensive. After living in Thailand for a couple of weeks, Just things like water and coffee just seem crazy! Plus the weather is so muggy, you can’t even sit out to eat. Oh well, never mind.
It was cool being in Thailand and getting back into the music side of things, so that’s helping out with this new project. I also picked up a couple of copies of Future Music magazine, and they are so cool in that they now have hour long videos on the DVD showing producers at work. Brilliant stuff! Video certainly is the way to learn!
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My brother and his girlfriend are also over here in Thailand having a holiday, so it’s cool to be able to show them round in my time off. And we decided to head off to the jungle of Kao Sok national park, which is pretty cool to say the least! The only problem is I can’t record here, the animals make a lot of noise! But that’s cool.
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I’m on Ko Samui, sat by the beach updating my blog via Wi-Fi. The World is changing!
It’s great being back in Thailand, just being in Bangkok having meetings and chatting over dinner, everything is about “possibilities” and groovy things that can be done, instead of the Japanese idea of “hmmm, tsshh, oooo, it’s too difficult!”. With all the great people here, there’s so much potential for doing lots of cool things!
And I’ve only been in Samui a day and have had some great new ideas for the new project I’m working on while I’m here. For the first time in ages computer work is actually going to be fun!
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I got a very interesting email from the British Council in Thailand the other week. It’s still a bit hush-hush, but could be very exciting! So I’m popping over there to have a chat, and to do my computer work down by the beach for a few days, it certainly beats being in the middle of a Japanese typhoon!
I also got the new newsletter done, and put up some veggie cards, plus finally managed to get up to date with my emails!
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