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Taking your language teaching online: Part 1 General

Taking your language teaching online: Part 1

Forum discussions in Moodle Before the COVID-19 outbreak, many of you were already using Moodle with your students. This may have been for providing students with extra resources or for letting them know about assignments[…]

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Cats, cats and more cats

It’s the Year of the Rat according to the Chinese zodiac. In fact, the rat is the first in a cycle of twelve animals that take turns representing each passing year. Besides the rat, there’s[…]

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What do we do for Christmas?

What do people do at Christmastime in a country, like Japan, with no Catholic or Christian tradition? Well, we also celebrate Christmas, but in our own way. Businesses kick off their Christmas campaigns well before[…]

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Summer English for Work courses

If you’re looking to polish your English skills over the summer, sign up for one of our summer courses in the “English for Work” series: Speaking Skills for Work, Writing Skills for Work, or Presentation Skills for Work.[…]

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Goethe wonders: “Is that ‘Gyoete’ me?”

This post’s title is the translation of some verses popularly attributed to the writer Ryokuu Satô (1868-1904, “Gyoete towa ore no koto kato Gête ii”). At one time, the name of the great German writer’s[…]