In between packing for Korea tomorrow, today was spent putting yet more video on the Japanese version of the site. Today’s two are probably the most important as they are the two most popular problems that Japanese teachers have when teaching by themselves; what English to teach, and what to do about pronunciation. They are quite easy to solve, and the videos basically go through how I built up the Genki English lesson plans, and then showing how to use the GE software to get around the pronunciation problem by just pressing a button on a computer to play each word or phrase. Very simple, but I’ve done the workshop so many times it’s now full of jokes to keep the teachers on track for the 5 minutes it takes to explain each one! Because that’s the key really, just taking away their fear. For most of us it’s pretty obvious how to learn and teach the basics, but it takes a certain leap of faith to have the courage to try it for the first time, so that’s what I try and provide with this videos.