Every English student has some kind of success here in Japan, whether they know it or not. Students come to us for a variety of reasons, whether it be a new hobby, for travel purposes, business, work, test-taking, to prepare for their future, “exercise the brain,” and the list goes on…”Success” is a very subjective […]
Coronaviruses & COVID-19 – What are they?
In December 2019, news slowly started to come out from Wuhan, China that people were going to hospital and were sick with a strange new respiratory illness. Many of these people had severe pneumonia, and at the time, the cause of this illness was not known. However, in early 2020, scientists determined that the illness, […]
English Classroom Sustainability
English Classroom Sustainability is about Caring and Teaching “English classroom sustainability” does seem like an odd title, doesn’t it? And yet here at Smith’s School of English we know a lot about sustainability and love to teach it. I myself love this concept so much that at the age of 57, I went the Unversity […]


