Greetings from Shanghai! I’m just here for a couple of days and we were looking at maybe doing a workshop here in September. But … midweek was the only time I had free and it looks like that won’t work out for everyone else, so we’re going to pause the Shanghai workshop this time and…

  Kids in Asia are crazy into bugs at this time of year. So it’s a big (and free of course!) Software Update for the Creepy Crawlies song! Apart from some sharp new fonts & higher sound quality, I’ve also added in a Dance Remix of the song. (The Hawaiian stuff tested great with kids,…

So you might think that my top five summer lessons would be: Summer Clothes – featuring the eternally popular Baby Money. Summer Sports – great for an after Summer review with “What did you do in the Summer?” Under the Sea – check out the Nemo Game! Pirates Colours – Ooo arrrr! Mr Octopus – (try the intro of…

For those of you spending your summer selling USBs for the Genki English Homework programme, here’s a quick tip to speed things up: Get a couple of USB extension boxes so you can do 5, 10 or 15 at once! They’re less than $10/1000 yen each so should save you lots of time. Better than…

Just got back from a massive 3 day, 3 city tour of Japan.  Totally shattered but fantastic teachers, some of the success stories were amazing! I’ll write up more soon,  but a quick tip today from Ken in Tokyo… If you’re having problems explaining to parents just how good their kids will get in a…