Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English. Back-To-School Movie Challenge If you want to get the feel for the Movie Club, you can join a 1 week of Cara’s Movie Club: https://leolistening.podia.com/back-to-school-movie-challenge From September …
Join Asish on his English Language Learning Journey: Watch his Progress and Improve Your Own Skills on his YouTube Channel Asish is a determined language learner who is dedicated to improving his English skills. In addition to receiving instruction from Indian tutors and native speakers, Asish has also taken to sharing his journey on a …
DeepL is a machine translation service that can be used to translate texts from one language to another. While machine translations are not always perfect and may not capture all of the nuances and complexities of a language, DeepL can still be a useful tool for language learning. In this post, we will explore several …
This podcast episode features a competition that took place in 2020 in which participants had to convince the host, Luke, to interview them on his podcast. One of the participants, Luciana from Argentina, living in Denmark, shares her story of leaving Argentina to become bilingual in English and her experiences traveling to various countries and …
My favorite expression from the interview Just roll wiht it!
Sadie Ryan, linguist and host of the Accentricity podcasts shares her insights into different linguistic topics. Sadie is currently a university lecturer in linguistics. What languages has she been learning and is it easier for a linguist to learn languages? Listen to this conversation and learn more about it. Podcast Audio only You’ll find it also on …
Ep. 103 shall inspire you and show that it’s possible to become fluent in a constructed language (conlang). André Müller, linguist and polyglot learned to speak Klingon. He even taught Klingon. He talks about his passion and shares his insights on how to learn Klingon. We also touch on some other linguistic topics, for example …
Feedback / Your voice in future episodes Vocabulary 0:11 Cheesy: cheap and of low quality. 0:19 To jot sth. down: to write briefly or hurriedly 0:33 And all that jazz: informal. used when speaking to mean “and other similar things”: 3:50 To graduate: successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (in North America) …
Doug Sands, hypnotist and language learner explains how hypnosis works to help you learn languages and tells his own language story (Spanish) and how he became a hypnotist. Vocabulary to focus on in this episode: hypnotist: person who uses hypnosis as a form of treatment, or sometimes entertainment: I went to a hypnotist to try …