John Bardos has just done an interview with me on the JetSetCitizen site: Lifestyle Design Interview: Richard Graham It’s mainly about lifestyle design, but John was also interested in the story of how I started Genki English and the sacrifices and risks involved in setting up your own business. It’s interesting how he sees me…

Here’s a brand new hip hop track for you: You’re better than the best of the best!. As you can probably tell it is to teach comparatives and superlatives, cute, cuter, cutest etc. As with the other hip hop songs there’s a free online version where students can listen to the song and click the…

Sarah very kindly emailed me to say the countries had been mixed up on the printable lesson plans for “Where are you from?” Thank you very much for letting me know, hopefully they should be fixed now. (I’m always happy to hear about mistakes on the site!) We do have different versions for different areas,…

Thought you might like to see a little bit of Singapore, here’s a video I made for the Location Free Lifestyle site. The best thing about Singapore however is all the new motivation & business books I’ve found, plus their attitude to education. I spent a silly amount of money on books, and one of…

In some countries students add extra sounds to the end of words (e.g. Korea or Japan)   In some countries students miss the last sound off.  Either way can lend to humorous misunderstandings. Just now the waitress asked the table next to me “Are you finished?” The reply was a confused face and “No,  we’re Danish!”…

I’m just about to head off to the airport. Some people don’t like flying, but I find flights a perfect chance to do nothing and relax, even in economy!   Over on my Location Free Lifestyle site I’ve written up my magic 4 tips to make any flight a heavenly flight.  If you do any flying…