Last Friday at 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), Japan, I showed some local promotional material that I use for my English school and I was very surprised when my student volunteered to help. A volunteer helper? Wow! I was quite [...]
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。 Recently, due to an ever expanding waist line, I have decided to get back into an old hobby of mine – running. Even as healthy as Japanese food is, it is not impossible to gain weight whilst living in Japan. After talking to some of my English conversation students (英会話 月謝) at my schools [...]
Today I had a memorable moment in my 6:00pm student’s English conversation lesson at 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). Part of the lesson was spent reviewing material that I’d taught my student before called “Go” Means “Become”, which teaches how “go” [...]
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 [...]
Autumn is my favourite season in Japan. Like Canada, Japan has Maple trees (紅葉 or Momiji) with leaves that change to beautiful colors in autumn and are a lovely sight to enjoy alone or with others. Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校), my English conversation school (英会話スクール) in Tsukaguchi (塚口), Amagasaki (尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture [...]
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 While in the past few week I often chose flowers which where imported to Japan and thus had a Katakana name originating from an European language, this week I am decorating the English Conversation school 英会話教室 in Fuse, Higashi Osaka 東大阪布施 with an original Japanese flower, a swertia japonica, センブリ in Japanese. Even thought the flower [...]
Students at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校) come from many walks of life and need English conversation (英会話) for all kinds of reasons. Let’s take my three newest students who all started studying with me just this month for example. One is a high school student who wants English to study abroad one day, 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 This week, I put these beautiful red Cyclamen シクラメン in our English school in Fuse, Higashiosaka 東大阪布施. The Japanese name, シクラメン is taken from the Latin original name when the flower first came to Japan during the Meiji period, but contrary to Cosmos コスモス and Carnation カーネーション the pronunciation 発音 in English is quite different [...]
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