During the summer every day and in every city I had the teachers being stressed out by the same problems and worries. Most of them are really easy to solve, but seeing as they are so widespread I’ve just uploaded several videos to the Japanese FAQ (yoku aru shitsumon) page. Adding in the video jokes…

Whilst I was visiting Gaz’ town the other week he showed me lots of new minicards he’d made, including mini versions of the picture books and these mini cards for “Do you have any brothers and sisters?” They’re great for games, for example do the song then even something simple like… 1. Everyone asks one…

I originally wrote this message on Monday, but now we have comments enabled I figured it would be great to hear your top 3 most fun lessons as well.  They don’t just have to be Genki English, feel free to link to other materials if you like! To start things off, here are my top…

Yesterday the Guardian in the UK had an article about my favourite of favourite language teachers the late Michel Thomas: My message “anybody can learn”. The interesting think about this article was that it is about taking Michel Thomas’ ideas and methods and using them in normal schools instead of just private learners. I think…

Hello, I’ve just upgraded the blog design, what do you think? And I’ve also enabled comments, so you’ll be able to give feedback and make requests right here on the blog.  You don’t need to log in to comment, so please have a try! be genki, Richard

There’s an article on the BBC today about the French Education Minister’s decision to offer free English lessons to all students in the school holidays. The BBC says … Xavier Darcos announced the plans on Monday, insisting that speaking fluent English was the key to success. Xavier Darcos said it was a “handicap” to speak…