Tips for Learning / 学びのコツ Learn What You Want to Say
How do you say..? Have you ever wanted to say something in a language that you are learning but didn’t have the vocabula...
Learning English
Tips for Learning / 学びのコツ 
Mindset / マインドセット Dedication is What You Need
Be the best The Guinness Book of World Records is recognised as the authority on achievements made by people. In the 197...
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 ...
Awareness / アウェアネス It’s Not Bad to Be Different
Many years ago, in my early career, I had a semi-private class. We were talking about our likes and dislikes. One of my ...
Awareness / アウェアネス Is Better Communication Polite or Rude?
I think, on the whole, people want to be considered polite as we want to be liked; who likes rude people? However, inter...
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...
Awareness / アウェアネス Our First Podcast – Response
A couple of weeks ago, I posted our first podcast and I am pleased by the response. Admittedly, the comments I have rece...
Communication Theoretical Vs Applied
Duolingo is a popular smartphone application for learning languages, it is so popular that its English tests are now acc...
Awareness / アウェアネス Are You an “Open Book”?
My dictionary defines an “open book” as a person who through naivety responds candidly to questions or openly displays t...
Awareness / アウェアネス What’s That Sound?
As I have written before, there are many things which don’t help your pronunciation of English sounds (phonemes), below ...