Author Archives: Richard Graham

Genki Day and the Phonics CD has arrived!!!!

I wonder how much email other people get? I seem to have several lots for each of my different hats, both running the business, and doing consulting, plus several thousand spams! Anyway I got up this morning and wasn’t feeling at all genki!! It was supposed to be a recording day today, so I took…

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I’m a little bit behind…

After this week’s presentation at the Education Center, I’ve had quite a few schools asking me to go and do workshops for all their staff. That’s really cool, but it also means June is now a very busy month! Plus I have tons of production work, as well as normal business work to do! So…

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New printer & Legal MP3s

To print the picture cards we have a load of printers in Ehime, but I don’t actually have one with me in Fukuoka. So instead of paying a fortune to Kinkos every week I got a printer. It took ages to choose though, staff training in shops needs a bit of improving! Legal MP3 downloads…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/new-printer-legal-mp3s/

Fukuoka Education Center

Along with a lot of help from the ALT, it took four years to set up this gig – a three hour presentation to over one hundred teachers from just about all the Elementary Schools in Fukuoka city!! They were very keen and asked great questions and it’s always nice to have three hours because…

https://genkienglish.net/teaching/fukuoka-education-center/

Fukuoka Entrepreneurs

Now today was a cool today! I attended a “power lunch” organised by the Foreign Entrepreneur Promotion Committee. It was really great to mix with such positive people. Entrepreneurs are always so full of energy and motivation, basically because if they’re not, they don’t eat! It’s amazing all the things that foreign businesses are doing…

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Picture cards into the Owners Club

Today I moved the picture cards into the owners club area of the site. The reason being greedy teachers who keep asking for more free stuff, but refuse to support the site by buying anything! I originally put the stuff free on the site so that teachers in countries who can’t afford materials have access…

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