Happy Birthday to Panama!

日本語 Interview by Isao Tokuhashi & Takeshi Takahashi info@myeyestokyo.com   Jairo Rodríguez (Colombia) Assistant Language Teacher/YouTuber/Corporate English Instructor Earlier this early summer of 2025, we had the opportunity to interview Mr. Takeshi Takahashi, an English teacher whose life was transformed through an internship in Denmark. Then we received an email from him. “If you don’t mind, I would love to introduce one of my foreign friends to you. He is an assistant language teacher from Colombia whom I met last year.” Colombia is a Spanish-speaking country in South America. We have interviewed several people from Colombia before—but an English teacher

Binondo, the oldest Chinatown in the world, in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. *Photo from Wikipedia June 12 is Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898. The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Homonhon Island in 1521 marked the beginning of Hispanic colonization. In 1543, Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas in honor of Philip II of Spain. With the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi from Mexico City, in 1565, the first Hispanic settlement in the archipelago was established. The Philippines became part of the Spanish Empire for

View of Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia. *Photo from Wikipedia December 26 is Independence and Unity Day of Slovenia, commemorates the official proclamation of the Slovenian independence referendum on December 26, 1990. Historically, the current territory of Slovenia was part of many different state formations, including the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, followed by the Habsburg Monarchy. In October 1918, the Slovenes exercised self-determination for the first time by co-founding the internationally unrecognized “State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs”, which merged that December with the Kingdom of Serbia into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and