Eigodaigaku http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/en/ en-us 2010-07-25T06:03:10+09:00 JETS, English Teaching, and the Theatre of the Absurd http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/archives/en/000186.html The Japanese government supports the pay of both JETS and other English teachers. In the former case the government pay JETS about 300,000, in the latter case because earnings of about 250,000 are required in order to get a visa... timtak 2010-07-25T06:03:10+09:00 Japanese as International Language http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/archives/en/000158.html I think that Japanese would make a good International language1) Chinese, Taiwanese, Koreans, Vietnamese intelligentsia can read the Sino-Japanese "Kanji" characters and almost make sense of Japanese newspapers. 2) Chinese (in its various forms, sharing the same script) is used... General timtak 2005-05-04T00:41:52+09:00 Online Materials for ESL Learners http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/archives/en/000153.html I made a list of online materials for ESL learners, ones that I could recommend to students, and ones that I would like to include in my own teaching, homework, and web based trainging systems. The factors that governed my... General timtak 2004-11-16T12:38:08+09:00 Homework http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/archives/en/000151.html General timtak 2004-11-10T21:09:35+09:00 Eigodaigaku Means... http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/archives/en/000150.html So what does the name of this site, "Eigodaigaku" mean anyway? Eigodagaku is made up two Japanese words, Eigo meaning English and daigaku, meaning university. So Eigodaigaku might be translated as "Englishuniversity". Even until recently, and perhaps until this very... General timtak 2004-11-10T15:06:17+09:00 English Language Education Blog http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/archives/en/000147.html General timtak 2004-11-10T14:00:27+09:00 Tamori and English http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/archives/en/000148.html You all know "Tamori." He is the man that hosts "Waratte Iitomo." Tamori is a guy (about 50 years old) from Fukuoka who wears dark glasses. When he first became famous he was a comedian. He made people laugh by... General timtak 2003-05-16T14:21:56+09:00 What are Weblogs http://www.nihonbunka.com/eigodaigaku/archives/en/000149.html I have no idea what this "Excerpt" field refers to. If I type here I am not sure where this text is displayed, if at all. I think that the weblog will also generate an automatic excerpt. I am not sure where the automatic weblogs are displayed either. It did not like pinging my site. I guess that mysite is not pingable. There are some other fields that I am completely un sure of such as "Sites to ping." What is the advantage of pinging sites? I will try entering my site as a site to ping. General timtak 2003-04-24T14:31:17+09:00