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Dear John,

Very sorry for not being a very active member of the site where information exchange is expected to be benificial to everyone, and is actually helpful to everyone. Thanks for the service being extended to everyone who looks for opportunity to learn, enrich and grow. It is interesting to interact but important to experience. Thus, I have a short story mentioned below as reference for life.

I do not whether I should say it is luck or not. I got the opportunity to learn Chinese Language but I missed the opportunity to learn Tibetan Language.  However, I do remember and do remind myself that I am a Tibetan. Today, I am much confused to decide where to move. It is very difficult to decide and a huge gap that I need to jump and make the best choice for my life.

Life is always wonderful to me, and I have always got the best opportunity in my life time. I was born in Tibet, I was brian washed, I came to India, I met good people, and got good opportunity, and so many good things I have got in my life, and I have people here and there to back me up. Still, I realized that it is very hard and difficult to realize oneself and to make a good decision for one’s life as human being works for many reasons.

I believe that there basic and fundamental reason for a person to make a good decision to start working for someone, somewhere for different age group. However, it is not realistic to focus on what you want after years though it is adviseable to make one’s career based on future interest. I am a person with lot of dreams, and I want to become a doctor to look after the pain, I want to become a big boss after I want to tell people that Tibetans are capable, and I want to become a researcher because I want to know so many things happening around, after all I need to prove that I am different from others, and It is important for each and everyone to realize oneself and the potentaility. But where actually is the landing career for ones happiness.

If there are some very good opportunities come to you at one time, and you were asked to make a choice. What would you do as it is to give one and take one, but how to decide the right one. Life is full of interest, and it is important to make a good decision and to make a good remark in life. Each and everyone has got his own aim to move up.

It is confusing and please make your decision and plan for career. (sorry for the conclusion where I am becoming more confused now)

 

 

 

 

Hello John and everybody, I’m still here even though i haven’t much free time :). I wanted just to suggest you all a new software that i find very interesting and also useful for who wants to improve language skills. It’s something like a universal chat. You can create a small avatar that becomes part of your internet browser, after that when you visit a website you can see the avatars of all the visitors that have the same software installed and chat with them. It would be very fun to see the people who visit John’s website and to chat with them without any appointment. Take a look at this link http://www.weblin.com/index.php?room=en1&lang=en

Goodbye.

Egidio

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Did you catch the lunar eclipse??
In this show:

• Lunar eclipse!
• An interesting interview with multicultural Jona
• Words of inspiration from Anthony Robbins
• Frappr map update … and more

Enjoy and learn!
–John

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It’s our 2-year birthday! Yes, our first podcast episode was in July 2005!
In this show:

• Our 2-year birthday!
• News: election & politics in Japan
• Taiko traditional Japanese drumming
• Interview with Andrea
• Idioms ‘rock’: rock the boat, on the rocks, rock bottom
• Quotations: M Scott Peck (author of The Road Less Traveled)
• Frappr map update … and more

Enjoy and learn!
–John

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[Buddha doll squeak] Hey, I ride my bike up and down those hills … up and down and up and down, gruntin’ sweatin’ pushin’. There’s no yellow jersey or Arc de Triomphe at the end of my mountain bike rides but you know what? … There also isn’t any endangerin’ EPO, I don’t do growth hormone, no stinkin’ steroids; this dope doesn’t do blood dopin’. The thrill is in seeing how far my natural non-drug enhanced body can take me. And right now, I’m off the bike, in front of the mic, for the all-natural 100-percent non-chemically enhanced, red-blood cell enabled English Teacher John Show number 60.

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SEGMENT 0 – INTRODUCTION & INDEX – Our 2-year birthday and a quick summary all video & audio podcasts available on the website

Welcome to The English Teacher John Show No. 60. In our program, which is targeted for English learners of all abilities, we use clear and easy-to-understand English. [music playing] Oh no … what’s that I hear …

[happy birthday song]

That’s right. It’s our 2-year anniversary or I guess you could call it our 2-YEAR BIRTHDAY! Yay! Yes, we’ve certainly slowed the podcast production schedule down a bit recently, but we do have a bunch of podcasts available, and I’d like to give you a quick summary of all the video and audio podcasts we have on our website. And, that is, of course, english teacher john -dot- com.

ENGLISH TEACHER JOHN SHOWS
First of all, there are 60 English Teacher John Show episodes and they’re easy to find by going to our website’s homepage, then clicking on ‘podcast’ where you’ll then see the list of all 60 English Teacher John shows. If a transcript is available, then you’ll see a ‘transcript’ link. Also, you will see our RSS feed which is maybe the easiest way to make sure you get all of the episodes.

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It’s another episode of the English Teacher John Show. In this episode you’ll hear:

• Earthquake! The earth was shaking here in Japan!
• The Live Earth event on 07-07-07
• A language segment: be used to something, get used to something
• Learn about a couple of IDIOMS — short end of the stick, stick up for someone or something
• PODnobbin’ looks at other English learning podcasts
• Some quotations from Albert Einstein.

Enjoy and learn!
–John

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Hey, are you gonna ask me ‘What’s shakin’?. ‘Cause I’ll tell you what … There was some earth shakin’ and quakin’ going on here in Matsumoto, Japan a couple of days ago. For the next half an hour or so, let’s hope the only things quakin’ shakin’ rockin’ and rollin’ are the English Teacher John Show number 59, and your language learning brain cells.

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SEGMENT 0 – INTRODUCTION & INDEX – Videos in English learning

Welcome to The English Teacher John Show No. 59. In our program, which is targeted for English learners of all abilities, we use clear and easy-to-understand English. We’re going to call this episode the “JOHN’S-LAZY-AND-HE-TAKES-TOO-LONG-TO-FINISH-PODCASTS” episode.

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Hi John,

i want to thank you for your very helpful podcasts. Im learning english in a language school at the moment and additional im hearing all your podcasts. I make great strides and its big fun. Im looking foward to speak it fluently but until then I have to learn a lot.

Im very impressed that you give so helpful Mp3-lessons for nothing. How do you finance that ? Donations ? Everybody should support something like that ! Many many thanks for that John !

My girlfriend laughed when she saw you because you look like me ! Same hairstyle and a similar beard 😉 !

 

I`ve seen you visited Tibet ? Do you like Tibet and the people there ? I love this place and its very interesting for me because I´m a buddhist and there are a lot of kindred spirit. I`m going to visit Tibet, India and the surrounding with my girlfriend in a few years. We have to wait because we have a little child (Chiara 3 years old) and she`s to young for such a travel.

I hope i`ll hear from you !

All the best

Mario

 

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Yep, it’s a brand new episode of our show. In this episode you’ll hear:

• A little talk about John’s recent slow, local and personal weekend. No hurry, no worry!
• A few idioms: rise to the occasion and a group of ‘steam‘ idioms, including:
  let off (some) steam, pick up steam, full steam ahead, run out of steam
• An interview with Mike, a Canadian friend of mine who lives in Tokyo with his wife and child
• Plenty of music from Martin Chenhall’s new music CD, Remember to Breathe (Martin’s Myspace page)
  
• About our frappr map and more …

Enjoy and learn!
–John

Hi John,

How are you?Had some free time so thought, should say you hi.

How’s your blog?Any new activities?I will try to write more often now.

 

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It’s our Africa Safari/Martin Chenhall music CD special and I hope you like it!
In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Hey, we are back from our African safari and I’m going to share it with you
• You’ll hear about Martin Chenhall’s new music CD, Remember to Breathe (Martin’s Myspace page)
  
• Our new ‘Wikipedia Profile’ segment: The Serengeti (Wikipedia link)
  
• Two new idioms: like a fish out of water, monkey business
• PODnobbin’ with a look at two recent English learning podcast episodes
• Some famous and not-so-famous quotations

Enjoy and learn!
–John

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INTRODUCTION & INDEX – Africa Safari!
Welcome to The English Teacher John Show No. 57, our African Safari and Martin Music special episode. My name is John Koons and I am indeed the host of the English Teacher John Show and our other video and audio podcasts. Right here in the wild savannah of Matsumoto, Japan, I create and produce the video and audio content on our website.

Hey everyone … you know what? … I’ve really missed doing this podcast, and I’ve missed all of you, our listeners. Yeah, really. I’ve been out on a few adventures, bouncing around in Landcruisers in Kenya and Tanzania, swimming with dolphins in Zanzibar … my holiday in March was really, really something special. Well, now the students here in Japan are back to school, I’m back to work and back in the classroom and I’m ready to roll. Get your binoculars ready — no, we’re not going to be chasing rhinos, elephants or buffalo — but we are going to be working togther to improve your English language skills.

Okay, let me give you all a quick summary of our recent trip to Africa. My wife and I flew from Nagoya, Japan to Dubai — that’s Dubai — in the U.A.E., United Arab Emirates. We had about a four-hour layover in Dubai, then we flew to Nairobi in Kenya, East Africa. I think Nagoya to Dubai was about 10 or 11 hours, and Dubai to Nairobi was maybe five hours or a little bit more. So we had a little bit of flying time to get to Africa from Japan.

We hadn’t booked any hotels, safaris or anything else so we had to kind of organize our thoughts and our trip once we arrived in Nairobi. Anyway, we found a tour company and we did a 3-day safari in an area of Kenya called the Masai Mara. And, that is the home of many animals and the Masaai people; it’s their traditional lands. I think I spent about 20 or 25 hours with my head peeking up through the roof of our landcruiser. I was just completely gazing in awe at all the elephants, lions, buffalo, gazelles, impala, topi, zebras, cheetahs and yes, we even saw a leopard — and a bunch of other animals that I can’t remember right now, like baboons. You know, I had been dreaming about African wildlife for so many years and it was really something special to be right there right in the middle of it, so close to those wild animals that you can hear them breathing and you can look into their eyes.

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Hello EnglishTeacherJohn !

 I just want to say that I am a  fun of you and I always  use  your podcasts in my classes….but i`m trying to  use your videos in class,too and I can`t download them ….tell me what I can do, please . I will really appreciate that !