The Smith’s Golden Week holiday was from April 24 to May 5 and I really enjoyed it. I spent part of my holiday in Okayama Prefecture where Akemi, my Japanese wife is from. I had a really good time with family and spoke lots of Japanese with them which was very good for me. I [...]
I’m having a great time owning and running my own Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi franchise school in Japan and teaching English conversation there to my very kind students. Today, after doing some local promotion for my school, I told my wife, Akemi that it was exciting building my school (building the student body). [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
I earlier wrote a post on the birth of my wife and I’s first baby Tina titled ”I’m a New Daddy!”. You can read it by clicking here. Tina is a little over 7 weeks old now and is doing very well. I’m crazy about her. She is over 5 kilograms now and puts a [...]
I always have a great time teaching English conversation (英会話) in Japan to my wonderful students at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校). Teaching English in Japan may be my job but it often doesn’t feel that way because I’m having so much fun! (^.^) It is always great having people come in for a [...]
Last Sunday I was off from my great job teaching English conversation (英会話) to wonderful students at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話 塚口校), which is located in Tsukaguchi (塚口), Amagasaki (尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture (兵庫県), Japan. My wife and I spent part of the day helping her younger brother move to a new apartment in Tsukaguchi. [...]
Hello! My name is Derek. I’m from Canada and am enjoying teaching English in Japan to great students at my English conversation school (英会話スクール), Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話 塚口校) in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Oh, and I am an alien. Now please don’t worry! Apart from Superman (who looks human), I don’t think that I look [...]
“Wait a minute,” I said to my friend, “How is the start of an Smith’s lesson like a piece of bread?”
At Smith’s we all know we have used for many years the letters CCC. To Smith’s School of English staff these letters mean “Coaches of Communicative Confidence.” Today as I prepared the next school owners seminar I realized that we have now been Coaching Communicative Confidence to many thousands of Japanese for more than 13 [...]
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