Podcast Episodes

829. 88 English expressions that will confuse everyone (Part 3)

Finally, here is the third part of this series about English slang words and expressions that most British people know, but which will probably confuse almost everyone else! I started this series in …

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

829. IELTS Speaking Tips with Maria from IELTS Speaking for Success

Maria is a CELTA and DELTA qualified teacher and teacher-trainer who has been helping people prepare for IELTS for over 7 years. Maria knows a lot of tips, tricks and inside information about succeed…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

828. PARIS STORIES with Amber Minogue

Amber returns to the podcast to tell us some grisly stories about the history of Paris. Amber is a bit of an expert about Paris. She has read pretty much every book about the city and is also a regis…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

827. An Interview for an Academic Study about Language Learning Podcasts (Carlos Soares, University of Aveiro)

👉 Take Carlos' survey here https://forms.ua.pt/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=699278&lang=en

Carlos Soares, from the University of Aveiro in Portugal, is doing a master's degree dissertation all about l…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

826. Yiddish Words used in English (with Sebastian Marx)

Comedian Sebastian Marx returns to the podcast in order to talk about Yiddish words which have found their way into the English language, including common words like bagel, glitch and schmooze and pl…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

825. Time-Travel Story, Language Immersions in Malta & Playing the Bagpipes (with Alastair Budge)

Is that a confusing title? Hopefully not. As you might expect, it's a little summary of what's included in the episode. To give you some more details, Alastair Budge is the host of a podcast called "…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

824. The Coronation of King Charles III (with Mum & Dad) The Rick & Gill Thompson Report

Talking to my parents about the coronation ceremony of King Charles III which happened in Westminster, London on Saturday 6 May. Includes descriptions of the ceremony and discussion of some of the is…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

823. ChatGPT & Learning English PART 3

In this final part of the series I'm going to evaluate ChatGPT's ability to work as a dictionary with definitions, example sentences, synonyms, phonetic transcriptions, etc. I test its ability to con…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

822. ChatGPT & Learning English PART 2

In this series I am evaluating ChatGPT as a language-learning tool. In this part I'm experimenting with role-play conversations, job interview practice, creating texts and dialogues and seeing if it …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

821. ChatGPT & Learning English PART 1

An episode exploring the various ways that ChatGPT might be able to help you learn English. Can it create study plans? Can it correct your errors and explain the corrections? Can you use it to simula…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago