Spent the day preparing the DVD master, which took ages! Editing in all the chapter points for the videos is really fiddly, but it makes the DVD really user friendly (I wish I could do the website in the same way!) I finished in the evening so set the computer rendering (for 12 hours!) and…

I found an amazing site on the internet today with videos for teaching elementary school English. I was quite amazed at how much they had managed to put on their website. It was all very well presented but the English was appalling (lots of “fine thank you, and you?”s). And it really got my thinking…

There is now the amazing Genki English Card Game on the site!! Whilst my computer has been busy rendering video, I’ve been putting together this idea which I’ve been wanting to do for ages!! Your kids should love it, it’s a game I used to play as a kid and now it can be used…

There is now the amazing Genki English Card Game on the site!! Whilst my computer has been busy rendering video, I’ve been putting together this idea which I’ve been wanting to do for ages!! Your kids should love it, it’s a game I used to play as a kid and now it can be used…

Sent out the English and Japanese newsletters today. I also updated the site so it’s easy to get to the CD pages. Most of the viewers already have the CDs (thank you!!), but recently there have been a lot of new visitors and I haven’t really made the CDs as accessible to them as I…

Last week was all presentations, which was fun and cool. Today was back to computer work and it is really the most unenjoyable part of doing Genki English!! It’s just a series of problems, from my computer not being able to type Japanese to finding out that the hosting bill for the website has quadrupled…