Hi there! I`m Kou, an English teacher living in Kyoto, Japan. I`ve been teaching in an English conversation school here for more than 16 years and have noticed there are some English words my Japanese students can hardly know, and I have recently found one word that none of them can give me the meaning of for the past 16+ years. I think the word is something students should learn if they take the 2nd grade of Eiken or English proficiency test conducted by The Ministry of Education since it is seen on the exercise books for the 2nd grade … Continue reading The hardest English word for Japanese students to tell the meaning of ?