Tips for Learning / 学びのコツ What is your Input-Output Ratio?
The Real Reason Many Japanese Adults Understand English but Can’t Speak ItMany adult learners in Japan understand Englis...
English practice
Tips for Learning / 学びのコツ 
Mindset / マインドセット Doing It for Yourself and Others
Hello. My name is Duncan Brown and I am an English Facilitator, here are some of my thoughts about learning the English ...
Tips for Learning / 学びのコツ Learning through Teaching
There is a common phrase that is quite insulting to all teachers: "Those who can do, those who can't teach". However, wh...
Communication Practising English in Japan
One thing that I took for granted when I first arrived in Japan was the road signs. At first, I thought nothing of readi...
Mindset / マインドセット Returning From a Break
It has been a while since I wrote about learning English as a second language, and I was struggling to choose what to wr...
Pronunciation / 発音 How Now Brown Cow?
“How now brown cow?” is a phrase I heard from my mother at a very early age, most probably because of our surname. It wa...
Communication How’s My English?
There are many ways a Japanese person can learn English; each way will suit each person differently. You can learn by yo...
Tips for Learning / 学びのコツ Daily English Workout Part 2
Here are some more ways to practise the English you have learnt, outside of the classroom and away from the textbooks. R...
Tips for Learning / 学びのコツ Daily English Work-out Part 1
Masami does it every day with me, I do it all the time and I do it badly on occasion. Our students do it with both of us...