I was invited by a Swedish princess for a week with Nobel Prize winners …

Whenever I talk with English teachers, there’s always a point where they feel conflicted between earning more from their teaching and wanting to help more students. They feel if they charge too much, they won’t be able to help the right people. Have you ever felt that way? Some teachers try and overcome this by…

Ah, I wasn’t expecting this to be the most popular post this month 🙂 Liora & Massimo asked for a printable list of all the Genki English lessons along with their vocab/phrases.   If you print the main curriculum page it’s waaaaayyyyy long (because there’s so much on there!) but then I thought,”Ah, let’s ask ChatGPT to…

Hope you had a great weekend! 😎 It’s always interesting looking at what students actually like. The cool thing with social media is that you get numbers to measure it ( i.e. we’re not guessing!) So I was just about to add in the latest “Ear Worm 👂 🐛” QR codes to the new cartoon…

I’m quite fortunate to get invited onto some very interesting podcasts! Today Kris from English Everyday just had me as a guest on his podcast talking about Genki English, business & the future of English teaching! Here’s some of what we covered: 01:07 Richard’s story 03:43 Life in travel 05:07 How Genki English started 08:02 The…

Hello! This is a very strange time of year. Some teachers in Europe are getting ready for a 3½ (!) month vacation. Whilst some teachers in Asia can barely take a few days off in August. And in the Southern hemisphere, it’s the beginning of winter! For me the nicer weather in the UK (not…