Category Archives: Training Japanese teachers

This week’s podcast

Hello everyone, I’ve just uploaded my final Season 3 podcast (or mini-podcast) in which I talk about kakizome. Thank you all for listening and subscribing.

Teaching in a Different Language-Part 2

Continuing from my last post, I passed my end-of-term Danish exam and wanted to apply using the spoken language. So, I booked a holiday in Denmark. In Copenhagen. It rained most of the time, but was still a fantastic historical place to visit. I did spend a lot of my first day looking for aContinue reading “Teaching in a Different Language-Part 2”

Teaching in a Different Language-Part 1

Hello everyone, this post is a sort of companion piece to my recent podcast where I spoke about teaching Danish to Japanese people. It will all make sense in the end (sort of). Let’s start at the beginning, which is probably best. Over twenty-five years ago, I started a temp job in the London branchContinue reading “Teaching in a Different Language-Part 1”

Learning a Different Language-Part 2

I found when learning other languages, I started to learn more about my own language. Certainly when you start to train for teaching a language, the constant analysing opens your eyes about the structure of your own. In my school English language lessons, we learnt about the main parts of speech such as nouns, verbs,Continue reading “Learning a Different Language-Part 2”