🍿 43 Million Views & 73,000 subscribers. That’s my Youtube count to date.  (My main channel is here.) Neil just asked over in the Genki Business group for some tips on how to grow your Youtube Channel for language teachers. I just wrote up everything I’ve learnt (including from invitations to Youtube in Tokyo &…

Optimists live longer, earn more and students who have optimistic teachers learn more. So in that spirit, over the past year I’ve been sharing stories in the Genki Business group of industries that have been booming during the pandemic. It certainly isn’t all doom and gloom. From breakfast cereals to pet food, from yarn spinning…

🌱 You’ve got amazing ideas! This is how you can make them grow this year. You don’t have to drain a lake, it could be as simple as new online community to plant them in or a change of color of lightbulb. Everything has changed, let’s see what you can create!

It looks like a lot of us are going to be teaching online again at least for the next few months! If you do it right it can be a lot of fun of course. You can get great results and be a whole lot less stress than trying to do offline lessons right now!…

Even after 20 years teaching online I think we all learnt a heck of a lot in 2020!    It certainly has been a “K” shaped recovery with some teachers & schools going under and others having the best year ever.   So what better way to share what we learnt, what went well and…

Happy New Year again 🙂 First up for the New Year we have the 2021 Genki Calendars.    These you can use to “gamify” your classes or homework.  Students get points for doing the different activities each day and  it makes a huge difference to your kids’ (or adults!)  motivation! Ninja Tip:   Of course…