Tim Murphey

Tim Murphey was born in Dahlonega, Georgia, USA, the youngest of five children. He hitch-hiked Europe at the age of 17 and ended up doing a PhD in Switzerland on the use of Music and Song in Language Learning. He moved to Asia in 1990 and has taught at five different universities in Japan and Taiwan. He has a handful of popular books in foreign language teaching and one novel (The Tale that Wags) that came out in 2010 about the university entrance exam system in Japan. He has given plenary speeches in a dozen different countries and ski-juggles every chance he gets.