Do you know where Hokkaido is? Do you know how many islands there are in Japan? If you put a map of Hokkaido on top of Tokyo, how far will the west go? きょうは、にほんご しょきゅうのみなさんのために、いつもより ゆっくりはなします。 Today, for beginners in Japanese, I speak more slowly than usual. えいごも つかいます。 I also use English. きいてください。 Please listen.

What do you like to do on a nice day? For today's episode we're going to talk about a fishy story. Also, here are some questions to test your understanding: - Who is going fishing? - Where do they fish? - What do they do while they wait for the fish to bite? - What kind of bait do they use? - What did they have for lunch? Why? *Comment your answers below :)

Chocolate is delicious... isn't it??? Listen to the podcast below, in English, to hear the surprising truth about one of the biggest chocolate brands in the world.

It's the Summer Solstice!

Episode #2 of The Grammarian Podcast is out now! This is Part 2 of the "Beginners Guide to Acquiring a Foreign Language" series titled "Learning to Communicate Meaning" In this episode, I talk about how allowing beginning learners to focus of the communication of meaning, even if done with simple or less than perfect language, is ALWAYS better than "get it right in the beginning".