Paul Snowden worked for over 40 years in universities in Japan. He taught at Tsukuba University, took a tenure faculty position at Waseda University, later served as the Dean of the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda, and most recently was Vice-President of Kyorin University. He is also one of the three editors-in-chief of the Fifth Edition of Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary, affectionately known as the Green Goddess.
- Studying Japanese
- Experience studying other languages
- Immersion and translation at Tsukuba
- Using new idioms
- Arriving in Japan by train via Russia
- When the language started to click
- Higher Education in Japan
- Access to tenure for foreigners in Japan
- Being determined to communicate in Japanese with colleagues
- Waseda School of International Liberal Studies
- Teaching in a multilingual classroom
- Reading strategies for foreign languages
- The Green Goddess – Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary
- Dictionary of English Collocations (英和活用大辞典)
- Fourth Edition
- Roman alphabet order vs kana order
- Revision process
- “Reverse authenticity”
- Online version and electronic dictionaries
- Adding new entries and updating existing entries
- COVID-19 and Language
- New paper edition?
- Karaoke Songs