Ben Shearon- Financial Planning for Your Retirement

Ben Shearon is a retired university English teacher based in Sendai. He was born in Germany and grew up in Spain but claims to be British. After living in Spain, […]
Total Physical Response and Situational Language Teaching

Total Physical Response and Situational Language Teaching Total physical response method is a structural method of language teaching based on the innatist language learning theory. Focus is placed on grammar structures and […]
Activities to Improve English Listening Skills

Activities to Improve English Listening Skills Listening is of course a vital skill to develop to enable our students’ language abilities and course book writers are right to include a […]
How to Invest and Spend for Happiness, Health, and Wealth, with Andrew Hallam

How to Invest and Spend for Happiness, Health, and Wealth, with Andrew Hallam Andrew Hallam is an international bestselling author, former high school teacher, and one of the most influential […]
How to Get More Leads from LinkedIn, with Rob Lally

How to Get More Leads from LinkedIn, with Rob Lally Rob Lally helps B2B consultants and service providers get more leads through LinkedIn. We sat down and had a chat […]
Education Service Marketing, with Leah Sparrow

Education Service Marketing, with Leah Sparrow Leah has been the owner of Leah Sparrow Digital Marketing since January of 2020. Her love for marketing was discovered in the early 1990’s. […]
Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary Speech?

Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary Speech? Why do so many EFL learners have difficulty with listening comprehension? “English people speak so fast” is a very common complaint I hear […]
Opening a Language School in Japan – What I wish I’d Known

Opening a Language School in Japan – What I wish I’d Known I arrived in Japan in June 1999, after almost 20 years working as a high school teacher in […]
My DELTA Module 2 Intensive Course

My DELTA Module 2 Intensive Course I’ve been teaching English for about seven years on and off and have worked in Brazil, Colombia, Portugal and Italy in that time. To […]
Building an EdTech Company with 1.5 Million Users, with Jarrad Merlo

Jarrad Merlo is today’s guest, he is principal consultant at Nouns n’ Verbs, where he works with schools, publishers, and companies to digitise their language learning and testing ecosystems — […]