For those of you in Japan ….. UPDATE: Here’s a pdf with all the details (in Japanese) UPDATE2:  At the moment the internships are only for Japanese passport holders.  But …. as I’ve had so many people get in touch from overseas, we’re going to see if there is something we can set up for…

Windows users have long been able to enjoy the Genki English software on a full screen.  And now thanks to OS X Lion, Mac users can now also enjoy the software in all its glory! Have a look at the video: Outside Japan you can get the software in the Download Pack . Get it…

One of the great things about the “Ninja Bootcamps” is that  we also get to learn lots of  really cool teaching tricks from each other. For example in this weekend’s workshop we had a great bunch of teachers and one of the great suggestions was “magic jumping beans”. If you feel your class is getting…

I just got an email to say that one of the school groups I’ve been working with in India has just won the “Digital Skills Program” award at the World Education Awards in Delhi. I’m not entirely sure how much of that is down to the Genki English part, but well done everyone!!

Dr Mani has just written a great post over on Yaro’s blog about being happy. One great quote is very useful to show that winning may be cool sometimes, but losing, or rather how we react to losing, is really what makes us happy… Let me tell you the story of a gambler who died….

Thanks to everyone who came to the huge workshop this weekend!  Unfortunately the university didn’t have permission to post the videos online, but here are a couple from last week’s workshop in Fukuoka. The first is how to teach the “No Saturday?” mix of the Days of the Week song. The basic ideas is that…