After my unfortunate accident on a bicycle couple of weeks ago, I had to spend six days in Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital. I broke my collarbone in a way that required surgery. As a foreigner with limited Japanese, I was naturally concerned how would I be able to communicate with doctors, nurses and other […]
Decorating the Smith`s school of English Fuse with Cyclamen
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら This week, I put these beautiful red Cyclamen シクラメン in our English school in Fuse, Higashiosaka 東大阪布施. The Japanese name, シクラメン is taken from the Latin original name when the flower first came to Japan during the Meiji period, but contrary to Cosmos コスモス and Carnation カーネーション the pronunciation 発音 in English is quite different […]
Showing students how to pronounce English properly 2
In an earlier posting of mine, “Showing students how to pronounce English properly”, I wrote about how I showed a student of mine how to properly pronounce the sounds “er” (as in “waiter”) and “ir” (as in “birthday”), as well as “th” (as in “the”) using the Smith’s curriculum. You can read about it by clicking […]
