It is a strange feeling being asked to do CD signings and presentations in bookstores. When I was back in England I’d see people presenting in Borders or HMV and think “That looks cool.”, now I’m here in Japan, of all places, doing the same thing myself! It doesn’t seem real somehow. Oxford University Press…

After finding out how many pages were on the site yesterday, and figuring out that the old search system only indexed about 800 pages, I decided to put in a new google powered search engine on the site. It seems to be working out really well, you just put in the target English you want…

People always ask me how I find the time to write so much for the GE website. The usual answer I give is “it’s taken 7 years”. Today I had a look and according to Google there are 9,980 pages of content on Genki English! Now that is more than a little crazy and I…

The other day I popped into see the ACET teachers at their monthly meeting in Fukuoka. They are a great bunch of people with lots of energy and ideas! One of the ideas they presented was an “ABC” rap, which was really good. What shocked me though was that some teachers in were still teaching…

A few years ago I used to really love coming back to Japan after a couple of months ( or sometimes even weeks!), and be amazed at all the new hi tech stuff that had been released whilst I was away. It was also lots of fun laughing at everyone in the UK as they…

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…