It’s my birthday tomorrow, so we all went out tonight. There were also a lot of Spanish people in town who had just arrived that afternoon in Leeds. Now I was really happy with how good my Spanish got last year ( after learning with the Pimsleur courses for just 3 weeks), but everything I…

One other popular request on the “Wishlist” section of the forum and in emails has been Mini Cards for the Animals1 and Animals2 themes. So for all you lucky CD owners out there, here they are – enjoy! UPDATE: I’ve just put black & white ones up too!

One topic of late has been how to fit Genki English into a longer, full time, multi year course of study. At the moment there are 40+ lessons on site which if you include reviews comes out to around 60 lessons, or 80 if you double each one up to two lessons a theme. I’ve…

In the Germany workshop the other week I mentioned a little about TPR storytelling, and had a follow up question on the forum about what I thought of it. I think it’s really good. I haven’t tried it that much myself in classes, but it very much fits in with the ways of using story…

One of the other recent requests on the forum has been for Black & White versions of the A4 picture cards. There are already black & white versions of the mini cards in the “Black & White Mini Card Book“, and I’ve just put up pdf files of the A4 cards for the 5 CDs.(…

The Genki English High School / Adults Hip Hop podcast was really popular in the beginning, but I haven’t updated it in a while. So here’s another song, this time with “How are you?”, “How you doing?” etc. and quite a few answers. The chorus is the main bit “It’s easy. I can do it!”,…