I want to thank ALL of the students at my school, Smith’s School of English Otsu. That’s right. A big thank you to all of you. You are all wonderful, and you make me feel proud to be an English teacher. Proud to be YOUR English teacher. As an English teacher I am happy every time a [...]
Really, the answer to this question is quite obvious and the fact that students continue to sign up and make great strides is proof of it. The ability to communicate well in English will most certainly continue to grow in importance year by year and I think this trend is already accelerating with the current [...]
Last week, John of the Kawanishi School and I went to Ashiya to find a coffee shop and found a nice Italian style shop with outside seating. With the nice weather these days and nice artistic cafe late (this one had the patter of a leaf in the froth), we could really enjoy a nice [...]
So if you asked me what was great about owning and teaching at my own Smith’s School of English (Okamoto School) I would have to say that, having been at it for about 4 years, I treasure each day and each minute I have the opportunity to help my students to make progress to improve [...]
Wow! What a great time! Sunday we were blessed with wonderful weather here in KANSAI. And this was perfect for enjoying the wonderful cherry blossoms in the Osaka Jo Park. We were unable to stake out our usual spot next to the outer moat but did grab a very large spot across the walkway from [...]
As many of you know, I used to work in the electronics industry. I worked as an engineer and manager for Alpine Electronics, Oki Electric and Mitsubishi Electric in the US and Japan. Recently John Coleman and I have been making many videos and in-class lessons for our students and for Smith’s Schools in general [...]
John Coleman, the owner and head teacher of the Kawanishi Smith’s School of English and I (Al Bartle of Smith’s School of English – Okamoto) have been working hard to make TOEIC Part 3 type listening lessons for the Smith’s main site. So far we have made 11 lessons. You can see the free online [...]
Smith’s School of English is now providing free online listening lessons for students to practice over and over at home. There are three ways to access these videos. From the Main Site TOEIC Lesson Page 無料TOEICレッスン From the Japanese Blog 無料オンラインTOEICレッスン From the Smith’s School of English YouTube Channel: ssejapan Listening practice is good for all [...]
Of course English is perhaps the most widely accepted international language. But actually any language, including Japanese, can be an international language. I personally experienced this about 15 years ago on a business trip to Taiwan for a design meeting with our Taiwan supplier who was to make a charger stand for our my company’s [...]
I have been reading the posts here and I am so impressed with so many of them. We really have a great team at Smith’s School of English. Recently John Coleman (See his post on the movie “Invictus“) and I are collaborating on some TOEIC listening practice videos for the Smithweb site. We have put [...]
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