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I am finally set on the dates and most details for the first "English Boot Camp" this fall in October.  About 20 of us will go to the mountains of Japan to study intensive English. We will study everything from pronunciation, listening, grammar, reading, writing skills, TOEIC, watch English movies, debate, business conversation etc.  We will have workshops, and discussion groups.  Four other teachers will help me teach and we will divide the students and teachers into 4 teams.  The red blue yellow and green teams and play games challenge each other and learn from our mistakes. There will be TV monitors around our area with English TV and music playing.   People will not be aloud to speak in Japanese.. If students are caught speaking Japanese they will lose a ticket.  All fun and games...  Losing tickets hurts your team.. I can not give all the details of the event now but there are many more challe...

Just arrived in Hawaii from long trip to Japan.  If you have ever been here you know how relaxing it is.  Everyone is very laid back and the weather is between 79 and 82 everyday.  When I left Tokyo it was freezing cold. : ) I was happy to change into my shorts.  Everyone that sells something here speaks English and ... Japanese...  Even if you are Korean or Chinese people will speak "Japanese" to you if you look asian.  Very funny.  There are many Japanese speakers here also.  You hear Japanese everywhere.   In a few days, I will have my first workshop in Hawaii for the Japanese speakers here that are concerned about their pronunciation. I hope to make it a regular stop on my pronunciation tour.  I will also try to broadcast a SPTV training video from here as well.  

One of the biggest problems people have is placing their tongue in the right position before making sounds.  A bad position will affect your sound a lot.  the key position is one.  When you are speaking, your tongue should be touching some part of the front of your mouth.  The main position is one.   Basically, your tongue moves between position 6 -1-7-3 and 4.  Make sure you are not floating your tongue in position 2 when you speak.  If you have already done this drill with me then you know what I am talking about..   

Please listen.  Sorry its all in Japanese.  Talking about me teaching A list Japanese actors, how I got started,  my workshops in Japan, a few points for the people listening, and my future plans for Japan. http://scottperry.jp/data/FM- OSAKA-ScottPerry-2011-12-27. mp3

I can speak in the Tokyo dome to a full house and not be nervous at all but talking on the radio made me nervous for the first time in 20 years.  But 30 seconds after starting I was back to normal.  I did not know what to expect until I got to do it.  Now I will get on other stations and talk about English.