Author Archives: Richard Graham

Cold and more Phonics!

I woke up this morning, got all ready to do some recording and….. I’ve got a sore throat!! Typical, 3 months in the UK being perfectly healthy and I’ve only been back in Japan 2 weeks and already I have a cold! Not very nice! But anyway I was still feeling quite genki so I…

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Fukuoka & Phonics

Woke up in Tokyo and it was freezing. Flew back down to Fukuoka and it was really nice! So straight back to work and after a few emails I got a call saying I needed to buy a bigger laser printer ASAP, it seems the picture cards are proving very popular at the moment and…

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DisneyLand

After being in England for so long I had been in an English mindset, so what better way to get into the Japanese one than to visit DisneyLand!! It was, as usual, really cool! Disney really knows how to motivate kids, the staff, the production and everything are first class. It’s also cool what they…

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Nice weather

It was nice weather this weekend, and I didn’t really do too much work, just spent a lot of time around town. I did notice that there is a new “Elementary School” English programme out, but it’s not really suitable at all for elem school. And I wish people would stop using katakana, and also…

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Samplers

Last week as I was cleaning all of my stuff out of the Genki House and sold all my music gear, I also sold my big Yamaha sampler. To be honest it was pretty rubbish ( an A4000, way too slow and way to pricey at 120,000 yen!!), but it now means I’m without a…

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On TV again

Just did normal computer work today, working on new projects and things. I also heard that this time the worksheets had been featured on Tuesday nights TV series. That’s quite cool. I went into town to have a look to see if there had been any new computers been released since I was last here,…

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