Simon Looskin

An Englishman, curious about many things, h…

Simon Looskin

An Englishman, curious about many things, here to tell you exactly how life is like in Japan and telling you straight, let's have fun.

I spent a week in Tokyo, this is what shocked me.

So first i want to say that's it's been a while since my last blog, life took over and i had no time to maintain the continuation, but just last week i went to Tokyo for the first time and i will now explain what left me shocked. if you ha

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    • Why i love living in Japan

      I've lived here for 2 years and my love for the city of Kagoshima and the country as a whole has only gotten stronger. To compare my old life to my current life doesn't really seem fair but let's do it anyway! My hometown in England has ju

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      • From England to Japan, my journey to a new life: Part 1

        My journey began with acquiring a passport, at 27 years old which is relatively old i guess, before embarking on a solo trip to Dublin, Ireland. It was my first trip abroad, solo, I've always enjoyed my own company. I can go anywhere and

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        • I've lived in Japan for 2 years, here`s what shocked me

          My journey to Japan was full of difficult discissions, anxiety, hope and 14 days of quarantine but that's another blog for another day. Today i want to talk about my life in Japan and how its shocked me, how different things are here compa

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        I spent a week in Tokyo, this is what shocked me.

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          The best way to learn english

          Since becoming a teacher, i learned that i have to do things my way and not the same as everyone else. Thats because if we`re all the same then you as a student won't know who and what method is best for you. So, what exactly is the best w

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          The best way to learn english

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          Why private English teachers are wrong (this may shock you)

          Since becoming a private English teacher, I've quickly learned how to NOT to teach Japanese students. I have an older female student who first approached me to ask about English classes, she informed me that her current teacher talks more

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          Why private English teachers are wrong (this may shock you)

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          When learning English, learn what you need not everything

          As an English teacher in Japan, i always ask my students `why do you want to learn English?` and i have a varying degree of answers, but when i ask `what do you need to learn?` that's when answers are either `it's for my job` which is a gre

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          When learning English, learn what you need not everything

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          Japanese classes aren't always a good idea

          Studying Japanese should be a fun and interesting experience, yet as I've found out of over the last 8 weeks, it just isn't. A quick bit of information, I joined 2 Japanese classes at two different places, on two different days but they are

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          Japanese classes aren't always a good idea

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          The Problem with Japan may shock you.

          Ok so this has been a long time coming, it's like a therapy session. But this is the cold, hard, unforgiving truth about problems in Japan. I've done plenty of research on this and done some personal research too to better understand what

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          The Problem with Japan may shock you.

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          The truth about Eikawa`s

          The eikawa in Japan is many young people's way into Japan, they often support visas and give you a small (tiny) apartment to teach English to Japanese children for full time money on a part time contract with a premise of ``Getting paid to

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          The truth about Eikawa`s

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