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	<title>Teach in Japan &#187; Oddities</title>
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		<title>Funny things your students say</title>
		<link>http://teach.3yen.com/2006-12-23/funny-things-your-students-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, there&#8217;s a million-and-one of them. Some of my favourites:
&#8220;Americans are&#8230;. strong for&#8230; war and fighting!&#8221; 
I think he wanted to say &#8216;keen&#8217; but now I&#8217;m saying &#8220;strong for&#8221; at every opportunity.
Teacher: &#8220;What do you like to do in your free time?&#8221;
Student: &#8220;I play with my girlfriend&#8221;
Ooh la la.
It&#8217;s a bit unfair picking on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accents</title>
		<link>http://teach.3yen.com/2006-09-11/accents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One strange thing I&#8217;ve noticed about some students is that they take on accents when speaking English. The most common is American accents. It&#8217;s not that surprising, given that most of the English they encounter is American English &#8211; on television, in music, from their teachers or the many American (mainly military-based) people iving in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach English, Speak English?</title>
		<link>http://teach.3yen.com/2006-05-24/teach-english-speak-english/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 04:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I noticed since I arrived in Japan is how my own ability to speak English has gone down the squat-style toilet. When you listen and read to broken English everyday, it&#8217;s a given that you&#8217;ll start to speak and write it, too.
Does anyone actually ask &#8220;What are your hobbies?&#8221; in the English-speaking world? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contagious</title>
		<link>http://teach.3yen.com/2006-05-22/contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 05:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the risks of being a teacher &#8211; any kind of teacher &#8211; is that you can come into contact  with sick people. In an eikaiwa, this is especially true, as you are usually teaching between 1 and 10 people, in small, air-conditioned spaces (ideal for re-circulating the germs).
Also, many eikaiwa have kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Gossip</title>
		<link>http://teach.3yen.com/2006-02-06/some-gossip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine who works for Nova in Yokohama has told me a bit of company gossip. It seems that the company who made 70.6 billion yen in sales in 2004 and has 50% of the eikaiwa market share is still not happy and is cutting back costs further.
As of January, the only supplies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English For Fun</title>
		<link>http://teach.3yen.com/2006-02-02/english-for-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an oft-repeated observation that many Japanese students come to eikaiwa to have fun, not learn English.]]></description>
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		<title>Private schools</title>
		<link>http://teach.3yen.com/2005-11-03/private-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chidade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to teach some kids at a private school recently.]]></description>
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