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Basic English is a constructed language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930). The language is based on a simplified version of English. from Wikipedia What do you think about that? I guest that it doen’t […]

Well, everyone, I have to confess something to you. I REALLY DON’T LIKE television!! Even when I lived in the States, I didn’t like to watch TV very much. And later, during the many years that I lived in India, I didn’t even have a TV … and I didn’t miss it! Now in Japan, […]

Hey, guess what?? I was in the middle of a snowstorm last Sunday! Really! My friend Charlie and I were riding our bikes on a road near Shiga village, just outside of Matsumoto. The road goes up into the mountains and it’s really a beautiful road. There were some clouds and snow flurries when we […]

Hey everyone, I just finished our Podcast Audio Lesson Number 23. You can download it from the podcast page or with your RSS feed reader. Please send me any comments you have about Lesson 23. Here’s a summary of it: Your letters, new listeners and the first snowflakes of the season. Our language lesson is […]

Did you like this lesson? Do you have any comments about it?? Here’s a summary of Lesson 22: Reading, laziness and daydreaming about the undersea world. An interview with Charlie, an English teacher in Japan. We also have two idioms today — a ‘piece of my mind’ and ‘I don’t have the foggiest idea!’ Learn […]

Any comments on Lesson 21??? We also have the TRANSCRIPT available online. Here’s a summary of the podcast lesson: What do you do when you’re feeling blue blue blue? Also, let’s talk about our hopes and wishes, and then a short segment on compound adjectives: do you know someone who’s hard-nosed, absent-minded or kind-hearted?

I’d like your comments about the English Teacher John Show. So … What did you think about Lesson No. 20??? Here’s a summary of the lesson: Greetings in different languages. A pronunciation lesson about sounding more natural, by understanding ‘blending’ and ‘reduced forms.’ Also, we have an idiom: think big!

Hi John, Where are you? Are you busy? I am missing your comments.

Hey everyone, do you know about the website called ‘frappr’!!!! With ‘frappr’ you can put your location (town/city and country) on a big world map and we can all see where everyone is from!! Does it sound like fun??!! Here’s the link: Add your location to our FRAPPR map Just click the link, go to […]

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