Tag: Japan
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SSP21 – John Rennie
Recorded on Saturday February 20, 2021. I’ve known John for over a decade now since we met in South Korea when we both first started teaching. We were part of the same intake of ESL teachers into the South Korean government’s EPIK program that brought teachers from around the world into the country and were…
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A slight change of plans
And so it turns out, as you probably could’ve guessed, that my flights to Japan have been cancelled and, as a result, there is no other really easy way to get there so, in essence, my trip to Japan has been cancelled. Why? Well, as you can see, the numbers in all categories have gone…
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Six Weeks to Japanese – Progress Report #2
Well if you haven’t heard by now, either on this blog or Twitter or your panicky friend, China is undergoing a bit of a crisis here during its Spring Festival holiday. The novel Coronavirus has hit the country particularly hard over the last few days with cases jumping from only 2700 to under 10,000. This…
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Japan: Questions to be Answered
Following up on my previous post about how Japanese culture has been a part of not just my life but most Western children’s lives, my very first memory of Japan and its traditional culture was back in Grade 3 when a friend and I made a presentation on the country. My Dad worked with a Japanese lady and…
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My Next Destination: A Cultural Soft Power
It is at times like this, when preparing to go to another country some time in advance, that I start to think of all the things that I know or am familiar with about that particular country. Well, my next destination is one that, at first glance, seems reasonable given my current geographical location of…