If you’ve ever fancied learning a little Chinese (just in time for the Olympics!) then theHowDoILearnChinese.com site is now live. There are six games on there (numbers, months, colours, countries, left & right & body parts) and the design needs finishing off, but they work really well. After I finished coding them up I was…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-to-learn-chinese-for-free/
Today I was invited by the Seigakuin University to do 2 lectures to teachers and students near Tokyo. Usually after being abroad I get really depressed with the state of teacher training in Japan. This morning some of it was as boring as anything with very dodgy English being taught, but generally things were pretty…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/a-ship-called-japan/
Amsterdam airport have a new toy. It’s a funky 3D body scanner. So now you not only have to take off your shoes, take off your belt, take out your computer, leave behind your deodorant, leave behind your bottles of water so you’re smelly and de-hydrated on the flight, but now they also search your…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/amsterdam-to-tokyo/
If you teach in Korea, here’s something that will interest many of your pupils’ parents, a new Genki English Korean Home Pack (Page in Korean). It’s basically the collection of 6 Genki English CDs with a free Black & White MiniCards Book. But as there is no access to the online Owners Club nor the…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/korean-home-pack/
The people who I’ve been working with on the Spanish and Chinese sites over the last few weeks are all PhD students. It’s amazing to see the research they are doing, which is basically the same we do here, namely find an educational need, propose an idea to fill it and then test the results….
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/phds/
I mentioned in the newsletter yesterday my dislike for songs such as “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. Along with the Mother Goose tracks it was the impetus for me starting the Genki English songs in the first place, because I found that whilst the kids could sing them they provided them with very little useful English…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/mary-had-a-little-lamb/
