It’s newsletter day today, this time with a Halloween special. The “Game of the Month” is “I saw a scary …” for vocab + memory practice, and there are a few simple games including the “Pesky Hound – Build a Skeleton” game! If you haven’t signed up for the newsletter yet it’s a great way…

I was on the plane the other week listening to a podcast with Joe Sugarman. At the end he was asked the single most important piece of advice he could give. He said the best thing a marketer could possibly do is to offer a 100% guarantee on their product. Straight away I figured I…

I like it when people change games in a good way, natural evolution! For the Lesson Plans book I re-wrote the Doctor, Doctor game to make it so the kids speak more English. Then in one of the Summer workshops one of the teachers changed it again to get in even more English, and have…

I’m going to be in Rome next week. I’ve got a pretty full schedule already, but if you’re a teacher there and would like to meet up for a coffee (or birra) and chat then please let me know. Genki English is going great in Germany so I’d love to hear how I can help…

It seems there are more and more people out there recording songs for learning English. One new one is Matt from Dream English. We met up for a chat in Fukuoka last month and he’s very kindly blogged about it. Again Matt’s songs are a lot slower than the Genki English style, and you can…

Over on the GenkiJapan.net website I’ve just put up a Japanese Festival Foods video. It’s like a mini TV show where you can learn the names of some Japanese foods. I would love to do the same thing for learning English, unfortunately nobody seems interested in having English ones! I’ve also put up a Japanese…