Hello everyone! I have had one of my ‘smaller telescopes’ on display at the Smith’s School of English Franchise in Kotoen (スミス 英会話 甲東園) these past few weeks. While some of the students totally ignore it two students in one of the Tuesday night English Conversation (英会話)classes are particularly interested in optics and astronomy and cannot be […]
Slow Fashion at Uniqlo; from スミス 英会話 長岡京
Here’s a short video about Uniqlo featuring Fast Retailing CEO, Tadashi Yanai. Although Uniqlo is Asia’s fastest-growing clothing retailer, it is a strategy of “slow fashion” that helps it to succeed in these budget-conscious times. There is plenty of useful business vocabulary here: standout, titan, concept, resonate, frugal, supply & demand, driving force, critical, slowdown, […]
Kyoto Aquarium (京都水族館)
Almost three months after the opening day (14th March 2012), I’ve had the opportunity to visit the Kyoto Aquarium (京都水族館) for the first time. The idea to finally visit the place was initiated last month by a student at Smith’s English Kyobashi (スミス 英会話 京橋) who, before his English conversation(英会話) lesson, told me that the aquarium was completed […]
