This week has been quite an eventful week here in Tsukaguchi, Amagasaki, Hyogo Perefecture, the location of my English conversation (英会話) school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校). First we had snow on Monday which I earlier wrote about here. Then in the very early hours of this morning (around 2:15 am) a fire erupted [...]
Yesterday (Sunday) was a day off from my great job teaching English in Japan to fantastic students at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校) in Tsukaguchi (塚口), Amagasaki (尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture (兵庫県). As usual, I spent the day with my wife and daughter. We had a nice late breakfast at the ACTA Nishinomiya Starbucks Coffee store in Nishinomiya’s shopping [...]
I think that learning proper English pronunciation (英語の発音) is important for Japanese people. Not knowing how to properly pronounce words can lead to them not being understood by English speakers. One of the things that I like about my job teaching English in Japan is being able to teach them proper English pronunciation. One [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら Maybe the End of January/ beginning of February is a little bit early for this beauty of a flower, but on seeing them in the flower shop in Fuse, Higashi-Osaka 東大阪布施, these tulips チューリップ just caught my eye. The tulip is a really famous flower and I sure that everybody knows them, but new [...]
At Smith’s School of English, we know that a team of like-minded individuals working together can always achieve much more than any one individual can alone. We believe that together, everybody achieves more. Together Everybody Achieves More = T.E.A.M. We believe in T.E.A.M.! We are the largest English conversation school franchise system in Japan 100% [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら This week, I decided on these beautiful Astersアスター to decorate our English Conversation School英会話学校 in Fuse, Higashi-Osaka東大阪布施. This star shaped flower is very common in Europe and Asia, but no genus of this flower exists in Japan. Therefore I believe that the Japanese Katakana name アスター is taken from one of the European [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら This week, I decided on these yellow freesia フリージアto decorate the reception room of the Smith`s school of English スミス英会話 in Fuse, Higashi Osaka 東大阪布施. Originated in South Africa, the flower is now very popular around the world, so my guess is that my freesias did not come the far way from Africa, but probably originated in [...]
Halloween is coming up on Sunday, so this week I have something special that is often made at Halloween time in the entrance of my English conversation (英会話) school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校) in Tsukaguchi(塚口), Amagasaki(尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture (兵庫県). I show it to students after their lessons before they leave and ask them what it’s [...]
スミス英会話なかもず校・堺東校の講師が書いた記事。日本語はこちらへ。 Last Sunday I joined one of my students from my English conversation school (英会話スクール月謝 ), Smith’s School of English Nakamozu (スミス英会話 なかもず校), for a fishing trip off the Wakayama coast. I was picked up from outside the Nankai Nakamozu (南海線中百舌鳥駅) and Midosuji Nakamozu stations(地下鉄御堂筋線なかもず駅), and we set out for the 2.5 hr drive south. The weather [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら This week, I chose these wonderful yellow orchids Oncidium オンシジウムto decorate the Smith`s school of English in Fuse, Higashiosaka 東大阪布施. I love orchids オンシジューム for their intriguing form and their variety. The variety of the genus orchid is immense, with all kinds of colors and sizes. The bright yellow color of the orchid オンシジウム in our [...]
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