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Word of the Day: Obsolete

Obsolete (ˈɒbsəliːt) You can listen to the pronunciation here. Obsolete means out-of-date or...

Word of the Day: Vagaries

Vagaries (ˈveɪɡəriz) You can listen to the pronunciation here. Vagaries are unpredictable or u...

One good reason to take my exam prep' lesson!

If you have an important exam approaching and are looking for an experienced native tutor to help y...

Featured lesson- Interview skills

If you have that all important interview coming up then please look no further than my interview sk...

Cool Britannia!!

Hi everyone, I have just started using a new worksheet in my 30 minute "Speak To Me!" lessons whic...

Ideas Worth Spreading All Around The World!

Hello Dear Students, I would like to introduce the website www.ted.com ,which you can fin...

Introducing my new proofreading sessions

Dear valued students, I have introduced a new proofreading session that does NOT require you to at...

July hot, hot, hot

Well, I'm not sure what it is like where you are but here it is so hot outside, it feels like you m...

July

So tell me how is your July going? Are you watching Wimbledon? or Maybe the cricket? Are you foll...

サマータイム

今日（3月10日の日曜日）からアメリカでサマータイムが始まりました。正確に言うと、午前2時になった瞬間、1時間進んで午前3時になりました。パソコンや携帯電話の時計は自動で調整されます。よって私が手動...

March Madness

We are now into the third month of the year. Are you keeping your resolutions? Are things going a...

Celebrations

For me February has been a month of celebrations: Starting with a holiday for celebrating the tree...

第二言語習得論の本を読み始めました。

最近、Stephen D. Krashenという人が書いた"Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition"という本を読んでいます。日本...

Added hours of availability

I am now available for lessons for more hours per day, especially on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesda...

Do you think this elephant is speaking Korean?

I don't hear Korean.  Do you? http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/11/video-this-elep...

Vacation dates: 6am (JST) 18th Oct - 6am (JST) 24th October 2012

This is just to let you know that I am on vacation from 6am (JST) on the 18th October until 6am (JS...

Check out my most popular lessons.

Hi, please check out my most popular "Speak to me!" lessons. The lessons are general conversation l...

"Speak to me!" lesson change

I have changed the length and price of my "Speak to me!" class to 50 minutes long and only 2000 poi...

End of Summer

The summer is nearly over, I would love to discuss with you how you have spent your summer and how ...

10% discount for August on ALL lessons

Hi, I have extended my discount of 10% off lessons for all of August. Please use the coupon code be...

14 days left of my 10% off offer on all lessons :)

Hi,AS from today (17th July) there is still 14 days of 10% off all my lessons using the coupon code...

10% off all my lessons in July

I offering 10% off all of my lessons for the whole month of July. I look forward to meeting some ne...

Stuck in Cyber

Wow that was painful. I got stuck in CyberSpace and couldn't get free, but now the geeks from Ca...

無料トライル☆

Hello! I hope everyone is well. For the last week or so I have been busy with teaching and also wit...

兄貴の来日☆

Hello everyone. I hope the typhoon is not affecting you too much! It has been very wet today. Maybe...

豚とTOEIC☆

Hello, hope everyone had a good weekend! The weather wasn`t so great here... but I went to a new bu...

エブリデイ波乗り☆

Good evening! How is everyone tonight? This week there were good waves every single day, so I was v...

豚丼大好き☆

Hello! How was everyone`s weekend? I checked out a new BUTADON restaurant in Obihiro City...

English for... PRO-WRESTLING!

Hi! Just to let you know I have created a new class... English for... PRO-WRESTLING! A conversati...

セキセイインコの話　A story of a budgerigar

     イギリス人は野鳥を保護しようという意識が非常に高く、あちこちの家の庭に鳥達に餌を与えるためのバードテーブルやバードフィーダーなどが置いてあります。 ...