Yeah!!!! The new version of CD1 is finally out, and I can breathe a sigh of relief. It’s been really frustrating over the last few months as I’ve been working on the new CD 1 materials, and testing and using them in schools and lessons, but I haven’t been able to talk about it on the site, and I kept having to tell people they can’t buy it till December!

It really has been worth all the hard work though, CD1 has always been the best CD because it has the famous songs that are all quite easy, and now with the remixes, e.g. the easier to teach version of the weather song etc., and mainly the upgraded software ( especially the pronunciation guides ), it should help teachers who’ve been torn between doing these songs because they’re easy but they are on their own, or doing the slightly higher level songs because they have the software to help them. So I’m really happy that it is now exactly what I saw it being when I first started the project 5 years ago!

And hopefully everyone who already has the CD will be happy with the upgrade plan!

So it’s back to finding out what other problems teachers have and trying to help with those. Today’s meeting was interesting in that I got good some good comments on problems with teaching vocab, and there have been plenty of emails following the newsletters.

And there’s still more content to go up on the site, I’ve been working on the Kids’ Song of the Month, which will hopefully be ready for tomorrow ( a day late, sorry about that !). But today I did get a head start on the new Genki German materials! Here’s to the World Cup next year!