Welcome True Friends!

Greetings and Welcome! 

You really are on the right path!

(안녕! 그냥 영어공부 하고싶은 사람 여기 크리그 하세요!)

Thanks for dropping by.  I’m curious how you found this site.  Your story and your journey.  Don’t be shy.  Why not leave a message at the contact page? Thanks for coming anyways.  Now let me tell you the story of Bondaygee.com.

Note: If you just want to study ESL, click here or “The Bondaygee System” from the menu.

The Bondaygee.com Story

Originally, nearly ten years ago while I was in Korea, I met a Buddhist monk named Park Ji-young.  We discovered together that we had an instant connection.  We were both artistic, creative and spiritual types of people.

 

We had a lot of interesting things to share with one another,  but Ji-young was most surprised when I showed her my Ocean of Love of story.  It was pretty special to me too. Suddenly Ji-young felt inspired to make a website to share the story and my many other creative, ESL songs and videos.  She really surprised me with her simple, beautiful graphics.  You can see her work in the website title above.  She identified herself with the moon and me with the sun. Thank you Ji-young wherever you are!

Unfortunately for me, she went to live in a temple and I moved back to Canada.  I didn’t know anything about websites, so I had lost my homepage for a few years. 

Sometime later,  back in Canada, I began studying website creation and was inspired to make a new website.  For a couple of years, I thought the website should only focus on ESL Studying, unlike the original,  which featured my stories.  Over time I realized without my stories, Bondaygee.com was lacking soul, it’s original vision and inspiration.   You see the Ocean Story is all about vision and how we perceive the world while “bondaygee” according to it’s Korean meaning symbolizes creativity,  transformation and rebirth. “Bondaygee” – 번데기 means cocoon.

Interestingly, since redefining and restoring Bondaygee.com back to it’s original scope and meaning, I seem to have millions of stories to write and I can’t stop,  nor do I want to. I feel in love again!  I’m very open and honest. I also became really healthy this last year through yoga and nutrition.  I’m sharing those stories too.  Don’t forget “Bondaygee is in your heart!” 

That was another poster Ji-young made for me from the comical “bondaygee song” music video and movie.

This is my Youtube Channel here to if you’re interested. Mind you, I accidentally deleted all my videos 3 years ago and had to re-upload everything.

Lastly, this story wouldn’t be complete unless I mentioned the contributions of a Hungarian Artist named Gergley Kovaks.  He made the beautiful icons and this cool poster picture below. 

Note, just because I love Pop Music, Beatles, etc, doesn’t mean I’m not an astute, philosophical person, because I am.  My art friends just happened to think my Bondaygee Music Videos were funny!

 

Here’s another piece of Park Ji-young’s artwork.  It’s just her “doodling”:

Small Kids ESL Videos

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As you know, music is one of my big secrets for teaching.  Music is great for all kinds of teaching really, but it works amazingly with ESL learners.  I just wrote an article about my favorite Musical Movies for ESL Learning, however, for younger children there are some different recommendations.  By younger kids, I mean any age before 9 years old.  Several recommendations from the “Musical Movies For ESL Learning” article are great too.  But there are definitely several more that fit better with younger children.

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Super Genius Kids 슈퍼 영어천재 키즈

 

bondwelcThese were my Super-Star students from Kwang Nam Elementary School in Seoul. This was one of my favorite schools and experiences for sure. You can see how well my “Bondaygee ESL System” works here. Mind you the students were pretty nervous doing their little recitals and did their best to say the words as fast as possible. If you were to talk to them and normal speed they could answer with near perfect pronunciation. Click a student to hear their recitals and the “Browser Back” button to go back to start.  The story about these great students can be found here at “The Amazing ESL Story”.bondwelc

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Photo Album

The Canadian Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains are a great reason to come to Canada.  Come and let’s go camping!

On the next few pages you can see a bunch of Korean pictures.  This will give you a great idea of what it’s like living and teach ESL there. It might help you decide if you want to go there or not.

This is the beautiful Emerald Lake.  I actually swam in this lake!

These are my awesome boys, Julian and Gene.  Both born in Cheongju, South Korea.

Why use the Bondaygee ESL System?

Why Use the Bondaygee System:

1. What is the “Bondaygee Secret”?

bondwelcImagine every class in your school, whether it be High School or Elementary School, all happily competing to see who can be the first to memorize all of Bondaygee’s Very Good Words™ study videos! As a matter of fact, it’s been done before and I can honestly tell you the results were astonishing!!

How was is it done? Easy, just start off each class with one of my Very Good Words Vocabulary Videos! They are full of energy and they only take two minutes to practice and sing. Because these essential English Words are strung together like “pearls” on a musical string, they are “piece of cake” to memorize. Now when you have every classroom all competing to be the first to memorize the words, the learning pace becomes phenomenal!

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The Tadpole Song (올챙이송 영어버전)

Are you looking for a good song to teach at your English Camp?  Look no further.  The perfect song is here with its lyrics for studying:
The Tadpole Song (올챙이송 영어버전)  Here’s the story. I was asked at one summer camp at Songbuk Elementary School in Seoul to make an English Version of the 올챙이송 (Olchaengee song).  I did it quickly in an hour and it turned out very well.  And here it is: Continue reading “The Tadpole Song (올챙이송 영어버전)”

The “Very Good Words” Series

Essential ESL Word Songs

What is “Bondaygee’s Very Good Words?”

The “Very Good Words” Collection is an:

Essential English or Korean Vocabulary-Pronunciation-Mastering-System.  You never forget the words!

Please note: This system is much easier than you think, but you should follow these suggestions:

1. For English People learning Korean: a) First learn the easy Korean alphabet. b) Print the word lists and read as you listen. In a very short time you don’t need the list. Lists are here: system.bondaygee.com

2. For Korean students, print out the lists found at system.bondaygee.com and read the word list as you listen.  In a very short time you won’t need the list.  Just watch the video or you can sing it yourself!

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