Can Anybody Still Spell?
It seems nobody knows how to spell anymore. Is it just me that gets upset about this?
Posts Tagged english
Vous parlez Français, lui aussi?
An odd thing happened on Friday: my “Get out of English Free” card didn’t work.
Friday evening, while I was making the trek from 本山駅 to 名古屋駅, I was stuck on the subway with a bunch of over-active high school girls. Like most high school girls, these kids were loud, laughing, and causing a scene. Being [...]
11.30.09 | Japan, Living in Japan, Working in Japan | Jason
The 1% Advantage
How easy is it for you to read Tweets, status updates, blog posts, or emails?
i lyke too tok on teh web bkuz my bffs r on it
Did you understand that one sentence? I’m sure you did. But could you read it as quickly as you could every sentence that has followed it? Probably not.
A few [...]
8 Things You Should Know Before Teaching English in Japan
I paid 320,000 Yen for this? Sitting in a small room, a foreign person across from him, Kenji Yamamoto sighed as he weighed his options yet again.
Kenji had come to the language school in order to earn the skills necessary to take his career to the next level. With the coming economic problems, his [...]
11.18.08 | Working in Japan | Jason
Are You Worried, Too?
This past weekend has seen a lot of money change hands, and a lot of people lose their jobs. According to every report that’s coming out of CNN and the Wall Street Journal, this isn’t over, either.
Despite the fact that so many financial institutions across America and Europe are posting record losses or going [...]
09.16.08 | Business, Japan, Living in Japan, Working in Japan | Jason