If you start teaching English with the ABCs,  here’s a nice experiment to try. Have a look at my GenkiKokugo.com site. There you can teach yourself  the  “hiragana” alphabet. Fun?  Enjoyable?  Useful? Hopefully what you’ll find is that if you don’t actually speak any Japanese the alphabet is pretty much useless. 1. You don’t know…

Here’s another video from Margit to illustrate making long sentences with the Advanced Hip Hop Genki English. This one is for the I have to …. I can lesson. 1. Make two groups: 2. Group A asks about the boy doll (left hand side) 3. Group B asks about the girl doll (right hand side)…

Thanks to everyone for the (over 100!) comments on Friday’s “Scratch n Sniff” message.  For those of you waiting for your downloads, I’ve just updated the post so have a look! It is quite amazing how all the comments that mention “April Fools” magically only appeared afterwards! 😉 Anyway…. Today I’m starting a new “Lesson of the…

Here’s a great TED talk sent in by Miko! “I can” really is contagious … As soon as I saw this video I immediately forwarded it to my team in India.  The reply back was “Oh yeah we’ve already been working with Kiran it’s amazing what she does!” P.S. Margit has just blogged about her…

Thank you for all your amazing support in the Red Cross Promotion last week. Blimey, you guys don’t half like waiting till the last minute!  Thanks to everyone’s last minute purchases just before midnight we got a very chunky5 figure sum to donate. And when we transferred it into Japanese Yen it actually came out to be 7 figures!  Cool….