As many of you probably know, the EU is heavily into promoting languages at the primary school level. The often quoted aim is to have all kids to have three languages by the time they leave school. So along with lots of research they also provide lots of very nice resources. These are sometimes of…

If you’ve got a Japanese Windows machine, it’s probably updated itself over the last few days. Usually these updates just bug fixes, but the new one is annoying in the extreme. What it does is make you click before allowing any “flash” files to play. “Flash” is the tool I use to do things like…

I was looking through my inbox today to try and get up to date with all my emails, when I came across a load of Readers’ Games that I hadn’t put up on the site yet. So you now have Gemma Fishers’ “Doraemon & Dorami Game” ( He, She, etc.) & Josh Katz’ “Mario Tracer…

It’s taken a while, but just in time for the World Cup we have Songs & Games for learning German – GenkiGerman.com! This was a project we’d been discussing when I was over in Germany, of taking some of the Genki English songs and translating them into German. And they have turned out very well,…

Parents and high school kids are always telling me how they’d like to study abroad, but can’t afford it. The key is to find a scholarship. There are many of them out there, mainly from embassies ( have a search on google), but also some universities and private foundations. As it happens CNN have just…

After sending out the Japanese newsletter last night, I realised that there are now more than 4,000 people signed up for the GE newsletters. That makes us one of the most popular Yahoo groups ( even more popular than the ETJ, one of my daily reads!) – so thank you very much! I also had…