Author Archives: Richard Graham

Stress free!!!

This is such a great feeling, no workshops, no shows, no travelling and no deadlines!!!! Yeah!!!! It’s great, I’m free to do whatever I want!! And the strange thing is that I ended up doing more work in three days then I’ve done in ages, which is cool! And now that I have a really…

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Last gig of the year!

Today was the final day of the Nellie’s Bookstore and it was great to finish on a massively brilliant seminar! The teachers were mega genki and the energy in the room was just amazing, we were just ploughing through the material and they just loved it! Fantastic! Tomorrow it’s off to KL and England, but…

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Big stress day!

Today is the big stress day again when I send a master CD off to the factory. Everything has to be checked, and checked, and checked, and checked again and is the most stressful part of this whole job!! Unlike the website where things can be changed later, here one mistake is very costly!! But…

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Full time on the Classroom English CDs

You’d think it would be quite simple, just recording the words of the Classroom English page so that Japanese teachers can listen in their cars and get a little stress relief and confidence from being able to speak a little more English. But of course this is a Genki English CD so it has to…

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Show & Workshop in Osaka

I’m back in Osaka again for the 3rd time in 3 weeks! Today was a private show and workshop organised by a teacher who came to see one of the shows in June and wanted to organise one in her town. Just like the show in June, she also asked for a “Mini Genki” show…

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Classroom English CD

JALT was great and I had lots and lots of teachers asking when the new CDs would be out, both phonics and the new CD 5. Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to get those finished by the time I head of for Europe. But a CD of the Classroom English / Classroom Japanese was also…

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