English Vowels

Thursday 06 September 2007 at 7:45 pm

English pronunciation is not easy - especially the vowels.

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Punctuation

Friday 24 August 2007 at 6:38 pm

Hello everyone. Boy, August has been a hot month. And the Osaki Bon Odori Taikai started today. It really feels like summer - muggy weather, 'matsuri', the sound of 'semi'...

Today I want to stress how important punctuation is. Always be careful to use correct punctuation.

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To A Great Student

Wednesday 01 August 2007 at 9:05 pm Teaching English in Japan is very rewarding, but not always easy. There were many times it was hard for me to find the motivation to teach. Sometimes, I have to admit, I did not feel like I was doing a good job. I felt there was something missing from the classroom. (続きを読む)

Bakemoji - What is this Goobledegook?

Wednesday 25 July 2007 at 6:32 pm Building webpages in Japanese is a lot of fun. By 'fun' I mean it is challenging. It is through doing this I learnt the Japanese word 'bakemoji'. Bakemoji describes the strange characters a webpage shows when it cannot display Japanese (or another language).
This is because computers use different codes to display characters. Without being geeky, this means that if your computers code is different to the code the webpage is written in...BAKEMOJI!... (続きを読む)

Study Habits

Tuesday 24 July 2007 at 6:47 pm

Hello Everyone,

It's Alex from e-Learning. Just a short message today:

The best way to study is a little bit everyday. 10 minutes everyday is better than 1 hour every Sunday. You'll find you improve much more quickly if you do this.

And don't give up! Slow and steady wins the race! If you pump enough energy into learning English you will succeed in the end.

Hi - from Tony

Monday 23 July 2007 at 9:50 pm Hi everyone, my name is Tony, I am teaching Chinese in e-GEOS, for I am Chinese. (続きを読む)

Cultures in Japan

Monday 23 July 2007 at 6:37 pm I have lived in Japan for 5 years now and it never ceases to amaze me how much can be learned about foreign cultures, meaning non-Japanese cultures, in Japan (続きを読む)

The Queen's English

Friday 20 July 2007 at 1:26 pm I had a conversation recently with one of my students about the differences in British and American English.
Often students have said that they can hear one type of English easily and not the other.
This is not to worry because often British cannot hear Americans clearly and Americans cannot hear British clearly.

One reason for this I have noticed is a single very strong pronunciation difference...
Knowing this makes both dialects easier to hear and also change your pronunciation to sound British or American. (続きを読む)