This coming Sunday, June 14th at 6pm, Smith’s School of English Koenji will have a mid year party at izakaya Don Bei (03 3330 6382) in Koenji – one of our favourite gathering places. The food is delicious and, along with the drinks, is very reasonably priced. We always have a fantastic time and it’s […]
スミス英会話高円寺 Temples of Tokyo – Kaneiji
Kaneiji is another of the Tokugawa Shogunate temples and was the most dominant of them during the Edo (Tokyo) Period. It was founded in 1625 and occupied the area known today as Ueno Park- the first public park in Tokyo. Its main hall was enormous and stood where the large fountain is, in front of […]
スミス英会話高円寺 Teaching and Studying English
I recently watched a video about teaching English in Romania and was fascinated, in particular, to learn that the Romanian Education system has switched from focusing on English grammar and vocabulary to a more conversation based learning process to the detriment of learning grammar and developing vocabulary. In other words they have gone too far […]