NOTE:   This offer has now ended! The Genki English CDs make great Christmas presents. So we’re introducing a Christmas Special offer for CD Owners Club members. If you order a total of 100 Genki English CDs or more for your students, instead of 4,200 yen or even 1,980 yen, each CD will now only be…

The numbers 1 to 12 are pretty much covered with How many?, How old are you? and What time is it? songs. But a big request has been for a song to learn the numbers 13 to 20. So here it is! At the moment it’s free for anyone to listen to online (the idea…

Today’s entry is a bit of feedback on the Soldiers and Ninjas game: I used this game for my 6th grade students at one of the elementary schools that I teach at in Japan and they loved this game. I have one class that never participates and is always disruptive, but playing this game got…

I’ve been getting quiet a few request recently, which is always nice. And some of them are quite easy to do, which is even nicer! One request was for Progress Sheets / Classroom Posters for the CD7 songs. Click on the pictures above to go to the lesson plan page (the printable sheet is part…

Quite a few people have been having problems understanding how to use the online games. Students love them but if you aren’t used to learning through video games it can be a bit confusing, so I’ve made a video to let you see how they work. I used the GenkiJapan games as an example, but…

Printable lyrics sheets for the GE songs have been a popular request. Unfortunately I hadn’t been able to think how to do them – until now! I’ve just made up a couple of test sheets for the 2 Christmas songs, Merry Christmas and What would you like for Christmas? What do you think? Any feedback…