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Teaching English or Just Living in Japan is Often a “Special” Experience!

October 30, 2008 – 8:53 pm

Often when we native speakers are teaching, we get too wrapped up in our determination to teach “real” English to supplant the WASEI EIGO or “Made-in-Japan” English that our students often use without realizing it is not real English.   Yesterday, I was meeting a friend who is a hairdresser in Kobe-Sannomiya and as I had [...]

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Sunday Lunch with a Student

September 7, 2008 – 4:37 pm

This past Sunday my wife and I were invited to a student’s house in Kobe to enjoy a great home-cooked meal.  It was a beautiful September day and my student and her husband welcomed us into their home where we had a great time.  Their home is located on the top floor of a large [...]

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Smith’s System Benefits All!

August 15, 2008 – 2:16 am

I recently got a new student on a Saturday who I had never met before. She had taken a trial at the Karasuma School but decided to study at my school in Okamoto because it is near her home. That was quite a pleasant surprise and it shows how being a member of [...]

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Phrase Lessons (Second Response to Ed’s Request for a STAG)

June 29, 2008 – 8:54 pm

As a second stab at working up some sentences to add to those posted by Ed of the Otsu Smith’s School and those added by me earlier. Here are five more sets of sentences. I hope they will be

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