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Career Development — How To Connect with Interesting People, Ideas, and Opportunities as an Online Tutor

Being a tutor can be isolating, especially if we tutor online. Without access to peers in the same field, it’s...

Upcoming Holiday: The New Year in Our Students' Countries 🎉

Did you know that many of our students celebrate more than one New Year? While students in Japan only ring...

Upcoming Holiday: Winter Solstice 🌘

Fewer things sound more depressing than the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. But did you know that...

Paraphrasing: Why It Matters and How To Teach It Through Free-Talk, Games, and More

Have you ever noticed that native speakers can usually express the same idea in many different ways? For example, below...

Travel to Japan With Our New Japanese Materials

Did you know that we now have Japanese materials? Just like our English materials, they’re free and publicly available! You...

How to Give Professional Feedback That'll Have Students Coming Back

What a brilliant teacher. She gave me precise corrections and at the end of the lesson, a totally original message...

Upcoming Holiday: Seven-Five-Three Festival in Japan 👘

Every November 15th, Japan observes the Seven-Five-Three Festival, a day that celebrates children ages seven, five and (you guessed it!)...

Become an Expert at Making New Vocabulary Memorable 💡

Imagine you’re trying to learn Chinese and your teacher introduces you to the character, 日, meaning “sun.” It makes no...

Upcoming Holiday: Halloween 🎃

While Halloween is not as widely celebrated as is in many English-speaking countries, it has certainly caught on in many...

Why Adult Students from East Asia Say They 'Play' with Friends

You’ve probably heard some adult Japanese or Korean students say, “I play with my friends on the weekends” (meaning “I...

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