For many years teaching English has been a great way for westerners to spend time in Japan. The terms and pay can be very good if you give private lessons in the corporate environment and they can be more harsh if you are with a language school. Anyway still a great opportunity for an adventurous time in Japan.
But listen up now Sensei-sama! North Korea is looking for English teachers! Will Pyong Yang be as fun as Tokyo? They babes and the beer? Unfortunately only open for British subjects, but that may change. I am eagerly waiting to read the blog of the first ELT in El Norte!
In this week’s installment, Beb and Alex teach you how to describe cancelling on someone at the last minute in Japanese and that you shouldn’t try it with Beb…or else !
This is a series of videos to learn the Japanese katakana writing alphabet. Katakana is used for foreign words and it can be tricky to understand the “English” at first. OK, here is episode number one. The worlds in this lesson are tomato (トマト), toast （トースト）, mike （マイク）, christmas （クリスマス）, smart （スマート）and suit（スト）
One of the tools I use to study Japanese is an interactive CD-ROM called Rosetta Stone. It’s a unique and intuitive approach to learning a language. What they have done is created an environment similar to that of a child. With pictures, sound and letters the language is presented and absorbed bit by bit. Read the rest of this entry »
