Author Archives: Richard Graham

Down by the river

For the first time in a while I didn’t need all my music gear today. I was doing the inlay card for the Phonics CD, so took my computer to the Seattle’s Best down by the river in Nakasu. That is so nice, and it’s so much easier to work there! And in my break…

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Down to work and GenkiMaths.com

Right, I’m completely on my own for the next 3 days so I can just blast on with a load of work and get tons of stuff done with no interruptions! With my jet lag I’m also in the strange position of waking up at 8AM and feeling sleepy at midnight, very strange! So after…

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How to get fluent in Japanese

Went through the phonics songs this morning, they are sounding good! Then I checked the sites stats and noticed there was a massive jump in people using the site yesterday (like really massive!). It turns out it was mainly people interested in the GenkiJapan.net site, which ranks really high in google – without me doing…

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Hip Hop

After Yahoo not living up to expectations, I spent a lot of time today making sure the site is all nice and search engine friendly. This does take time, but I see it like a playstation game. I could either be trying to build an alien empire, or I could be trying to build a…

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Yahoo ?

Got listed in the Japanese Yahoo today!! Yehey, the key to lots and lots of visitors to the site! Or not as it may seem. They listed the site as a”children’s’ language school”. Wonderful!! You pay a fortune, they ask you to jump through hoops to get the site to fit their regulations, then they…

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Off to Aso San

Got up early because it’s my day off!! Yeah!! Did a few bits of email work, including re-submitting the site to Yahoo, and got some great messages. Then off on a glorious sunny day to the Aso San volcano in the middle of Kyushu island. It’s so nice travelling round Japan in the nice weather….

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