I need to get a Japanese calendar for my computer as I completely forgot today was a national holiday ( I use konfabulator at the moment). I had planned to book my December flights and upgrade my computer, but the travel agents were shut and the Tenjin computer stores were packed. So instead I edited…

There’s one problem with the Genki English way of learning. The idea is you just learn the things that are fun and things that you want to say, then try things out and if you make a mistake it’s cool as people usually correct you. Today I was getting no end of comments about the…

Since I first started Genki English I’ve always seen it as being full of video clips. The web is such a great medium for short bits of video that make it easier to get the information across, and if you look at all the old media interviews, I was always saying things like “Genki English…

It’s here!! The “What do you want for Christmas?” song is up on the site! I spent the morning doing the vocals, then the rest of the day mixing and writing up the lesson plan. As the poll on the site wasn’t too biased one way or the other, I also did two versions “What…

I spent all morning trying very hard to get the new Christmas song to work. But whatever I did it either sounded genki but not Christmassy, or Christmassy but not genki. And by the evening I was pretty fed up with not being able to do it!!! I was even thinking of giving it up…

Every week I get a report through of what people are searching for on the Genki English search box ( it’s on the top right!). It’s very useful in finding out what new things people want on the site, and which pages need to be made easier to find. One item this month was “Days…