One thing that constantly crops up with Japanese teachers making their own lessons is the confusion over “I like apple/apples” etc. Last week this came up when a teacher was asking about a demo class. She came up with a great idea of using real Christmas ornaments of things like a bell, a snowman, a…

Spent the weekend editing up the Japanese versions of the CD5 Teaching Guide videos. It takes a long time! But if you speak Japanese, the first four are now online. This week I’m busy with school visits, but I’ll get the English ones done as soon as I can! The English versions for the other…

In workshops and things, one of the things I always mention is that Genki English is used in over 100 countries. That sounds rather good in the beginning, but it’s not until days like today that it really sinks in. In between sorting out workshops in Thailand, and following up on ones in Korea, I’ve…

Yeah!!!! The new version of CD1 is finally out, and I can breathe a sigh of relief. It’s been really frustrating over the last few months as I’ve been working on the new CD 1 materials, and testing and using them in schools and lessons, but I haven’t been able to talk about it on…

One good thing about being away is that my phone doesn’t work. I still spend a couple of hours each day doing email, but when I got off the plane last night within 10 minutes my phone was ringing! As it happens though there’s some really good news. Long term readers may remember the “Kids…

Today was also a really, really cool day. Out for a very nice Sunday lunch, with some very cool people. Then a great tour around all the local sites, including a massive big Buddha and a fizzy hot spring – I kid you not! I was also chatting with one of the teachers there and…