The Daily English Show The Daily English Show History

TDES left Japan on the 8th of May 2007. From May to November 2007 The Daily English Show was produced in Canada. TDES travelled to: Vancouver, Cawston, Nelson, Wolfville and Vancouver Island.

Hokkaido, Japan

TDES left Canada on the 5th of November 2007 and returned to Japan, via Taipei. From November 2007 to July 2009 the show was produced at studio tdes in Niseko. In November 2008 we moved the studio to a new location in Kutchan: MSK JR Apartments.

Auckland, New Zealand

TDES left Japan in September 2009 and moved to Auckland New Zealand. The first show in New Zealand was on 9th November 2009. We set up the studio in the Auckland CBD. In April 2010, we moved the studio to a new location in Auckland. The first show in our new studio in Papakura, South Auckland, was on 21st June 2010.

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TDES Content

When the show started, there were three sections on weekday shows: STICK NEWS, conversations with sarah and questionanswer. Saturday shows were special shows (How To or Sarah's Diary) and Sunday shows were Sunday Kitchen. In the intros to the show, Sarah talked about various topics: grammar, movies, songs, videos etc.

Over the years more segments/regular topics have been introduced to the show.

TDES Niseko Snow Report started on: Show 208 Monday 27 November 2006.

Monday Guest started on: Show 320 Monday 26 March 2007.

Studying mistakes on Wednesdays started on: Show 448 Wednesday 25 July 2007.

Friday Joke started on: Show 478 Friday 24 August 2007.

Studying videos on Thursdays started on: Show 558 Thursday 22 November 2007.

Studying songs on Fridays started on: Show 573 Friday 7 December 2007.

Studying movies on Tuesdays started on: Show 605 Tuesday 8 January 2008.

Word of the Day started on: Show 688 Monday 31st March 2008.

Click Here started on: Show 753 Wednesday 4 June 2008.

TDES Sites

The Daily English Show's site for scripts has been thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com since the start of the show.

We made this site (www.thedailyenglishshow.com) in June 2008. Before that we used a free site at geocities: www.geocities.com/thedailyenglishshow.

We spent two weeks updating the content on this site in May 2009.

TDES Video sites

The Daily English Show was first uploaded to Grouper.com (this site has since been changed to Crackle). Shortly after the show started, we started uploading to YouTube. The Daily English Show joined YouTube on the 5th of April 2006.

Shows from #840 have been uploaded to this Blip TV account.

Shows from #1 have been uploaded to this Blip TV account.

Shows #1 to #1009 were uploaded to Crackle. Crackle no longer accepts user uploads.

Shows up to #554 were uploaded to this PeeVeeTV account.

Shows from #555 have been uploaded to this PeeVeeTV account.

Shows up to #1231 were uploaded to Watch Me TV.

Some shows were uploaded to Google Videos.

TDES Translation Sites

Shortly after the show started, we started a Japanese site for Japanese translations of TDES scripts. The first Japanese script site was: plaza.rakuten.co.jp/dailyenglish.On the 3rd of December 2007, this site moved to: tdes.blog120.fc2.com.

Several sites have been created by viewers who translate TDES scripts. The sites were created in the following order:

German
Italian
Korean
Russian
Bulgarian
Spanish
Ukrainian
Polish

There was a site for Vietnamese scripts for a period of time before the owner deleted it.

TDES Sponsors

The Daily English Show is grateful for the following sponsors who have supported the show:

Acadia University

Loaf Lounge

Saison Club

SAS Scott Adventure Sports

MSK JR Apartment

Niseko Annupuri

TDES Equipment

When we started TDES used Video Studio 7 to edit the show. A few months after we started, we changed to Adobe Premiere Elements. Find out more about the equipment we use here.

TDES Email

At first we used Yahoo email. We changed to Gmail in September 2007. Find our current email addresses here.

TDES Style

The show titles used to be the show number and date. Thanks to suggestions from viewers, from August 2007, we changed to giving the videos titles which reflect the content of the video.

TDES Featured on YouTube

Several shows have been selected to be featured on YouTube, including:

#283 My Trip To Sapporo And Otaru - Featured on the front page

#424 How To Make Soymilk - Featured in Spotlight section (How To)

#493 Introducing Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada - Featured in Spotlight section (Travel)

#536 Brownies - Featured on the front page of YouTube New Zealand (one of the first group of videos which were featured)

#547 Tofino to Vancouver - Featured in Spotlight section (travel)

#601 Advice For People Who Are Studying English - Featured on the front page as part of a theme of language videos

#665 Yotei-zan: Hiking Up + Riding Down - Featured in Spotlight section (travel)

#697 First Korean In Space, Should Of, Kitchen Sink - Featured on the front page of YouTube Korea

#778 Garlic Top Salad - Featured on the front page (selected to be featured as part of the Summer Guru Challenge)

TDES Holidays/Breaks

The Daily English Show is a daily show, however, from time to time we take breaks. Since we've started, The Daily English Show has taken the following holidays/breaks:

1: 2006 Summer holiday, 1 month, August 2006

2: 2007 Winter holiday, 10 days, 9-18 November 2007

3: 2008 Summer holiday, 1 month, August 2008

4: 2008 Winter holiday, 10 days, 26 December 2008 - 4 January 2009

5. 2009 Spring holiday, 1 month, 27 April - 24 May 2009

6. 2009 Summer holiday / moving break, 3 1/2 months 25 July - 8 November 2009

7. 2009 Technical difficulty break, 11 days, 20-30 November 2009

8. 2009/10 Christmas/New Year/Summer holiday, 2 1/2 weeks, 23 December 2009 - 10 January 2010

9. 2010 Autumn holiday / moving break, 2 1/2 months, 5 April 2010 - 20 June 2010

Last Updated on Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:12