One of the greatest gifts parents can give their children is that of language. In my case that means English and Japanese as I’m British (though I sound American) and my wife is Japanese. As we live in Japan and our son attends a Japanese daycare we’re not concerned about him picking up Japanese but […]
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Anyone who has studied Japanese for more than a few years will have studied how to write a letter. While in English we’re free to start off the letter any way we see fit, in Japanese letters often begin with a comment about the weather. I remember our class asking our teacher why that was
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Back in elementary school in 5th grade we had a science fair. I was partnered with one of my best friends at the time and I clearly remembering sitting down at my house to figure out what our project would be. We threw a few ideas back and forth until we came up with what
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Ever since I was a young child I have enjoyed reading, the only problem was that I enjoyed reading comics; Superman, Spiderman, etc. I suppose I was like any other kid, I did my best to get out of doing my homework. When teachers assigned us book reports I would find a book that had
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The other day I finally decided to sit down and get cracking on my vlogs…and I must say that it wasn’t quite as easy as I thought. Talking to a computer screen does feel a little weird, but since it’s my first one so I can only get better. I spent some time thinking about
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The number one excuse that we all love is – “I have no time.” I used it and I’ve heard it more times than I can remember. But rather than read you the riot act about how it’s not that you don’t have time today I thought I’d throw out some ideas of how we
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Marketing is the lifeblood of any company. You could have the best staff, the best product and the best ideas but if no one knows about you, you’re not going to be very successful. It is one of the lessons I learned early in my career as I decided to open an English school in
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It might sound strange for me to call laughter a success tool but there’s nothing better than laughter when you’re feeling down. I love just sitting down to watch a good comedy with family and friends. We share in the moments and retell our favorite parts afterwards, sometimes to the point of tears. With such
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A client of mine has a unique group of friends of about 12 people. She calls them her walking group. Back in college they started a tradition of walking to a certain destination each New Year’s Day, braving the cold Japanese winter. They continued this tradition for many years and have stayed close despite the
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Each morning I wake up, check my email, see what’s happening in the world and check facebook. That’s my routine. If something catches my eye I make a note of it and come back to it later. Yesterday I came across a story of facebook that I just had to share. I hope you like
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