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 […]
Funny cell phone episodes
I and my Japanese family here in Japan all use NTT docomo cell phones. NTT docomo is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan and a subsidiary of NTT, Japan’s incumbent telephone operator. I, my wife, her younger brother and her cousin all are part of a family plan together. The bedsheet episode A few years ago […]
