What is a Conversational?

The ability to communicate well is very important to me.

I started teaching English in Japan, and later I started a language school in Canada. After teaching English to students from all over the world for about four years, I started to notice something. I noticed that there were some things that students wanted to say that they couldn't say. Even very advanced English students, who had studied a lot of grammar and vocabulary, had this problem. They were studying English to communicate, but they were not able to say what they really wanted to say. There were holes in their English.

I learned, by listening to my students, that these holes in their English, were shared by students from different countries. For example, a Spanish-speaking student and a Japanese-speaking student both wanted to say the same thing, but they both didn't know how to say it. They had the same hole. I became determined to help them fill those holes.

I came up with a series of lessons to fill those holes. I created these lessons using a simple method. I listened to myself when I spoke naturally. Any time I heard myself repeat something a few times, I made a note. If it was something that my students didn't know, I made it into a lesson. My students loved the lessons, because they told me that the lessons immediately improved their English conversation abilities. Eventually, the series of lessons became known as Conversationals.

I present it to you here because I believe that all people should be able to communicate as well as they want to communicate.

For every teacher, a class that participates is much better than a class that doesn't, so please ask questions and make comments if there is anything that you don't understand.