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English Idioms Challenge - Week 11 (Challenge! As __ as __.)

Hey all! Welcome back to a column dedicated to English idioms!    This is the eleventh English lear...

Learning Something New for Spring!

With warmer weather upon us folks in the northern hemisphere, spring can be a great season to refle...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 10

Hey all! Welcome back to a column dedicated to English idioms!    This is the tenth English learnin...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 9 (Implying Idioms)

Hey all! This is the ninth weekly English learning challenge: to try & use this idiom in your n...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 8

Hey all! This is the eigth weekly English learning challenge. This challenge discusses what idioms ...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 7 (Remixing Idioms!)

Hey all! This is the seventh weekly English learning challenge. In this challenge, we focus on id...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 5

Hey all! This is the sixth weekly English learning challenge: to try & use this idiom in your...

How We Deal With Snowstorms

In the past year, I moved from the Seattle area of Washington state in the USA to (virtually) the m...

Preparing for Online Tutoring - 毎日 日記の練習~!

English Idioms Challenge - Week 5

Hey all! This is the fifth week of my English learning challenge: to try & use this idiom in yo...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 4

Hey all! This is the forth weekly English learning challenge: to try & use this idiom in your n...

Galentine's Day

Have you ever heard of Galentine's day? The trend started on a holiday introduced by American TV sh...

Valentine's Day Date...is Battleship??

Have you ever played Battleship? Growing up, my older brother & I had a Battleship set that we ...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 3

Hey all! This is the third weekly English learning challenge: to try & use this idiom in your n...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 2

Hey all! This is the second weekly English learning challenge: to try & use this idiom in your ...

Why am I a Teacher?

I could say that my teachign story starts in university. I could say that my desire to teach began ...

English Idioms Challenge - Week 1

Hey all! Starting a weekly English learning challenge: to try & use this idiom in your next les...

Making & Keeping New Routines

Fun fact: I rarely had to study in school.   This isn't as much of a brag as it may seem. The US sc...

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Planning Your Studies in the New Year!

For the past 2 years, I've made myself a bingo sheet of all the art goals I'd like to complete. And...

Christmas & New Year's - My Teaching Ethos

Many people are deeply curious about how other countries celebrate both familiar and unfamiliar hol...

Blizzard & Beginning the New Year Right!

Here's what I've been working on regarding the personal curriculum!  I prefer working on paper sinc...

Personal Goals Bingo 2025 - Progress & Prizes!

In 2024 and 2025, I made myself bingo sheets to track certain goals for my hobby... Art!    When I ...

My Year in Review - 毎日 日記の練習~!

2025年のまとめを写真で振り返ります！1月：友人にシャツを縫い、結婚式の案内を送り始めました！2月：バレンタインに配偶者にビクトリア朝の暗号文を送付し、祖父の90歳の誕生日を祝いに訪問！ 3月...

Autumn Motivation -- 日記の練習~!

  If you'd like to talk about your lesson learning routine / schedule, please check out this les...

Why Do Dictation?

When I was in school, we did dictation only in elementary school. Sometimes, it'd be part of a week...

Let's Make a Bingo Sheet for Various Goals!

This is a bingo sheet I created to help me beat my perfection while working towards some of my arti...

Weekly Routine ~ 日記の練習~!

This week, I tried focusing on explaining the basics of my daily routine.It can be very helpful to...

Digital Clean Up -- 日記の練習~!

I decided to use some fun stationary today! 

Autumn Fresh Starts?

My thoughts on whether or not autumn is a good season to start a new study habit. I am learnin...

Autumn Picnic Dinner -- 毎日 日記の練習~!

Writing a quick diary entry can be helpful for learning or practicing a language.   I tend to write...