Author Archives: Richard Graham

Kids English at Maruzen

Yesterday it seemed that just about everyone was new to Genki English, whereas today it seemed like all the fans had turned out in force! Which was just as well as I was demoing the Kids English series. Kids English is aimed at kids to learn at home, and although today was a presentation for…

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Fukuoka Maruzen

Just about every teacher in Fukuoka has the Genki English Superpack and lots of the teachers very often turn out for GE workshops. So today I figured I’d do all new stuff, something of a bit higher level for people who’ve already seen everything else. But it turned out that there were also loads of…

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Things come easy

What a complete contrast to the last two days! Today I was up early and very genki. I started some music work and whilst working on one song I managed to completely write a new one in 30 minutes! Cool! Then down to Maruzen to check on things for tomorrow, and it looks like the…

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things come hard

Planned to spend two days doing production work for the new CDs, but Wednesday was spent doing business stuff and on Thursday I just couldn’t get anything done however hard I tried! Having a splitting headache didn’t help much either.

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two schools

Wow, it’s really back into things today with two 2.5 hour long workshops in Fukuoka. And they were great. I usually get really cultured shocked coming back to Japan as the motivation level of the teachers here is always way below other countries. But today’s schools were very much in the “have lessons already so…

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Back to work

Only had 6,000 emails waiting for me when I got back. Luckily 5960 of them were only junk mails, so not that many to reply to, I guess everyone else must be on holiday! I also tried out a great idea I had for the Months of the Year theme, of having pictures of famous…

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