Archive for the 'General' Category

What’s Up? Podcast 7 – (with transcript)

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

[ mp3 audio file | File size: 5.82mb | Duration: 14:19 | TRANSCRIPT (pdf, 137kb)] Hey … WHAT’S UP??? Stay away from the ruts. But if you’re in one, try try try to get out of it! We’re looking at ways to get out of that rut. That’s what’s up! Welcome everyone to episode number […]

Yep. It’s time to get serious about studying Japanese!

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Okay, it’s time to make a pledge here and now on our blog. As of today, 11 June 2006, I, John Koons, am going to make a regular and diligent effort to improve my Japanese langauge ability. Furthermore, I’m going to register for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) which is given in early December […]

SECOND Expressionist Live Show – Friday, June 9th

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Hey everyone, It’s time for our SECOND Expressionist Live Show. We’ll do it this Friday, June 9th at 1:00pm GMT. More info on our Skypecast page. You can check the local time in your city here. ETJ’s EXPRESSIONIST Live Skypecast No. 2 Friday, June 9th, 2006 Topic: GOALS FOR THIS YEAR. What important things do […]

Next EXPRESSIONIST LIVE Show (Skypecast) – 9 June

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

I have tentatively scheduled our next EXPRESSIONIST LIVE skypecast show for Friday, June 9th. You can always check the skypecast page for more information. Let’s have some fun and EXPRESS ourselves!! More info coming soon … John

English Teacher John Show 41 VIDEO!

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

[ video on our video page ] Hey everyone, I just finished working on the video from our last lesson, ETJ Show No. 41. I’ve been experimenting with video hosting at different sites and have uploaded this file to blip.tv. So please have a look at it and tell me what you think. You can […]

My first net pals english!

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Hi everyone, yesterday for the first time I had my first chat with two members of our group! They are Clélio and Aythami and I want to thank them. It was very interesting! We had only a short textual conversation for this time, just to know something of our english learning experiences but the next time […]

EXPRESSIONIST: Let’s try a live SKYPECAST!

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Hey everyone, Well, let’s continue to talk about NETPALS ENGLISH but THIS WEEK, let’s try a live skypecast together … what do you think?? This is the place to go for our new English Teacher John Show EXPRESSIONIST SkypeCast. Our first LIVE SKYPECAST will be this Friday evening, May 26th at 10:00pm (2200) Japan time. […]

Update on ‘NetPals English’ Service — sorry!

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

[ FYI Message audio file (mp3, 3:42, 1.48mb) ] Hello everyone, Today is Wednesday, May 17th and this is a special FYI message. FYI means ‘for your information.’ A few months ago, I created a service called NETPALS ENGLISH. I discussed it on our blog, and then created a webpage on our website. The idea […]

AdventurePod 5 – Charlie Interview part 2 – Transcript

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

[go to: video page | transcript part 1 | audio/podcast page ] Video (Part 2) Duration: 6:00 Charlie: Well, you’ll have to ask her yourself about how she feels, ’cause I don’t know. She probably has feelings one day which are good, and on the other day they’re not so good. But I think she’s […]

AdventurePod 1 – Charlie Interview part 1 – Transcript

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

[go to: video page | transcript part 2 | audio/podcast page ] Video (Part 1) Duration: 13:01 John: All right, everybody, welcome. This is the very first Adventure Pod English. My name is John – some people call me English Teacher John – and today we have a wonderful interview. This is our opening show, […]