You're gonna learn

• why using podcasts is a great way to learn languages and
• how you should use them to get the most out of it.
• With the help of podcasts you can easily level up your target language - in an interesting way. 

We got Alastair Budge (creator of the English LEARNING For Curious Minds PODCAST) onto My Fluent Podcast to talk about using podcasts as a means of learning a language.

The whole philosophy behind Leonardo English is to help people improve their English in a more interesting way. In over 250 episodes, Alistair shares stories about people's lives and how things work. He kind of explains how things work.

Video version of the podcast:

https://youtu.be/VdheWK7u11w 

Time stamps / topics

1:47 Alastair learning Italian

6:05 Why learning languages with podcasts?

13:27 What podcast apps we should use to learn languages

18:02 Language skills that can be improved by listening to podcasts

19:57 The shadowing technique

23:36 Alexander Arguelles and shadowing

24:46 The IPA system (International Phonetic System)

29:32 What inspired Alastair to creat Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts

36:40 How Alastair comes up with new episodes

38:13 How an episode gets created

40:33 Why Alastair interviewed 250 members.

43:41 Is the podcast too hard for beginners?

46:29 Start out with your own podcast! 

48:16 The word "set" in English has 430 different meanings

49:40 Least favorite words

52:39 Outro / some last words of Alastair

Vocabulary list:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oii-iRiLhchDJ4ZrfVWv7N9eQmAojGoCOUWHe9PX-5Y/edit?usp=sharing

Alexander Arguelles YouTube channel. 

Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 

Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts:

https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts 

Episode 236 - How To Use Podcasts To Improve Your English [My Favourite Strategies] | English Learning for Curious Minds (leonardoenglish.com)

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