Tom Kenny           
Teacher, author, broadcaster, voice actor.      An American living in central Japan.
Tom at the University

Tom is on the faculty of Foreign Languages at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies (NUFS) in Central Japan.

He teaches in the Department of British & American Studies at NUFS. Click the department logo above to find out more about the department, or go directly to Tom's NUFS web pages.

Heard of the Speaking Lab? It's unique to the Department of British & American Studies at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies.

Click on the logo to find out more.

Or watch the ten-minute video Tom made about how The Speaking Lab works (in English and in Japanese):

Spring 2010
It's a new school year, and Tom's American Studies Seminar students are hard at work learning about American values, politics & government, and different aspects of American society.


You can help them by voting in the polls & surveys they use for data in their studies. Go here to vote in the latest polls!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
 
Some "end-of-the-year" shots of Tom's 1st year students:




And Tom's hard-working American Seminar students!!



OPEN CAMPUS: July 19, 2008

Tokai Radio reporter Mao Seo visited Tom's American Seminar class on Wednesday, July 16, to broadcast LIVE about Saturday's Open Campus! Take a look at the photos and click on the links below to hear the report!

  11 am report (2 min.)

  12 noon report (5 min.)

Student Chiemi Matsuhira, Tokai Radio reporter, Mao Seo, Tom Kenny

2008!! Some "end-of-the-year" shots of Tom's 1st year students:And Tom's hard-working American Seminar students!!OPEN CAMPUS: July 19, 2008

2008!! Some "end-of-the-year" shots of Tom's 1st year students:And Tom's hard-working American Seminar students!!OPEN CAMPUS: July 19, 2008

 

2008!! Some "end-of-the-year" shots of Tom's 1st year students:And Tom's hard-working American Seminar students!!OPEN CAMPUS: July 19, 2008



Back: Students Keisuke Dei, Kenta Yamashita, Tom Kenny, Nari Mizutani, Kayoko Sato. Front: Chiemi Matsuhira & reporter Mao Seo.



Then, on Saturday, Tom met high school students from all over the Tokai area to give them a conversation lesson, and let them experience the Nagoya Gaidai Speaking Lab! The classes were great fun, thanks to Tom's assistants, Yukako Ono, Naho Sueki & Mai Kitamura!