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….

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…

UPDATE:  Thanks to everyone who came to these workshops!  To find out the next time I’ll be in town, check out the schedule page here! I’ve just got through the details of my (nearly a) week long workshop in Okinawa. I’ll be doing sessions on the 29th, 30th and 31st, with the aim of getting…

There’s lots of buzz these days about High Definition TV (HDTV) and High Definition Gaming. So you might be pleased to know that your Genki English CDs are also High Definition! All you have to do is to plug a suitable computer into your HDTV and you’ll see all the Genki English songs, pronunciation guides,…

Get ’em while they’re hot, it’s the last few days for several of the Internet Exclusive bonus songs. Namely: How many do you have? Hip Hop Numbers What’s your favourite flavour? Download them now because from next week they’ll be taken offline to make room for some more new songs over the Summer. Particularly the…

I got an interesting email from Nicoletta this week. She was wanting to play all the Genki English songs her kids have done so far as background music (BGM) during colouring or painting time. The idea being it’s giving them added exposure to the songs and the English. I think that sounds like a great…