It’s only a couple of years since I started doing the “jissen” workshops where teachers actually teach and then learn from their mistakes. And I think I’ve got quite good at it, what used to take 2 days I can now do in 1. Of course it helps that today’s teachers have been trying to…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/getting-good-at-this/
Normally day 2 of a 3 day workshop ends on a “will they really be able to do this?” note. But today’s teachers were fine right from the start. It does take a bit of getting used to teaching Genki English, especially the idea that pronunciation and learning something new actually matters, but once you’ve…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/okinawa-day-2-2/
As promised here are some of the ideas I picked up from Hokkaido’s Yorozuya Sensei’s workshop the other day. I’ve added in some extra bits, but his main theme was to try and get some real exchange of information instead of simply practising the English. The latter is fine, but the former is of course…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/what-you-really-want-to-eat/
Today I was asked by one of the big American cable companies (I don’t think I can tell you which one, but you’ve certainly heard of them) to pop along to their Tokyo offices for a chat. I wasn’t quite sure why, but popped along anyway. It turns out they were wanting to ask me…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-to-revolutionize-education/
If you’ve ever fancied learning a little Chinese (just in time for the Olympics!) then theHowDoILearnChinese.com site is now live. There are six games on there (numbers, months, colours, countries, left & right & body parts) and the design needs finishing off, but they work really well. After I finished coding them up I was…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/how-to-learn-chinese-for-free/
There’s lots of buzz these days about High Definition TV (HDTV) and High Definition Gaming. So you might be pleased to know that your Genki English CDs are also High Definition! All you have to do is to plug a suitable computer into your HDTV and you’ll see all the Genki English songs, pronunciation guides,…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/high-definition/
