Advanced Business English Japan 日本人のための上級ビジネス英語
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Using Notes or No Notes in Presentations
When preparing for presentations, many Japanese presenters worry that they might forget how to explain their slides in English. They generally use four techniques to help them remember: most read from notes in their hands or from sentences on their slides, a few memorize their whole presentations, and one or two use their slides as…
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英語で外国人に接客する必要性 Customer Service in English
There is a growing need for Japanese staff that can communicate effectively with non-Japanese customers: having the basic customer English skills at the very least means much less stress for sales staff – and higher sales for management! (Japanese translation below) Below are written the basic customer English phrases I taught to staff members at…
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Email: Polite English Phrases for 37 Situations
Showing enough politeness in Japanese business emails is really important. So when writing emails in English, Japanese really worry about how polite their English is. They don’t have a clear idea about which words and phrases are “formal” or “casual”. At work however, the clock is ticking and they are under pressure to write something.…
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Grammar: The Logic Behind Non-count Nouns
Understanding why something is a count noun or a non-count noun is really difficult for Japanese students, but it is essential for developing sentence-building skills. The problem is these nouns (often put at the end of sentences) determine which grammar words (is are / do does / a-an the / much many / less fewer)…
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Grammar: Verb Tense Ping Pong
Native English speakers switch from one tense to another very quickly. I wanted to help my students speed up their ability to switch so I made this overview showing the nine different verb tenses. After we look at the verb tense differences, we play Verb Tense Ping Pong, switching rapidly from tense to tense. Students love…
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Listening Skills: Cutting English Sounds into Words
Students often say that English spoken by native speakers is just too fast to understand. I know exactly what they mean because I had the same kind of problem when I was studying French in Montreal. Even though I could understand pretty much everything in class, out on the street, I was completely lost. The…
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Explaining Skills: Japanese Culture Questions
Explaining is perhaps the most challenging skill to learn in any language. But how many textbooks teach “explaining”? I don’t know of one textbook: the reason I believe is that each explanation is so specific to each topic that it is very difficult to show one way to explain something. So how can Japanese English…
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