Ann-Marie's English

Today we learn practical travel phrases and expressions to use at airports, hotels, and in restaurants.
今天我們學習在機場、飯店和餐廳使用的實用的旅行短語和表達方式。From 'checking-in' to 'asking for help', these essential English travel phrases will make your next trip abroad 出國旅遊 plain sailing! 一帆風順 (That is effortless).  

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Feel frustrated listening to native speakers talk? 
If your English is good, but you still don’t understand what people are saying???
It could just be an idiom or 成語!
如果你的英文很好，但你還是不明白別人在說什麼，別擔心這可能是成語的!

Today we explore common British idioms with their meanings, cultural background, and usage in daily conversation. From letting a cat out of a bag to being as happy as Larry. 
Listen to the end to test yourself with a short quiz 加油!

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Want some tips to SPEAK better English? 

Episode 3 of Ann-Marie’s English podcast dives into frequent errors made by native Chinese speakers, such as prepositions, articles, and verb tenses, and explains how to FIX them.

Common Mistake #1 - Do you know the difference between AN apple and THE apple?

Common Mistake #2 - When should we use BUY or BOUGHT? Study or studying?

Common Mistake #3 - IN England or AT England? ON Monday or AT Monday?

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In today’s upper-intermediate to advanced episode we take a look at a highly-anticipated album release, Can you guess which one it is?

We learn useful vocabulary to use when talking about music, artists, streaming, and pop culture.

查一下文字稿喔，以便您可以一邊聽一邊讀。記住自己大聲說出來可以提高你的口語能力，而不僅是你的聽力和理解能力！

Check out the transcript in the show notes, so that you can listen and read along. Remember to speak out loud to yourself, it will improve your speaking skills, not just your listening and comprehension skills!!

We will need to know 4 names of places for today's episode.

The United Kingdom = 英國 (名詞)

Great Britain = 大不列顛 (名詞)

England = 英格蘭 (名詞) / English =形容詞

Scotland = 蘇格蘭 (名詞) / Scottish =形容詞

Wales = 威爾斯 (名詞) / Welsh =形容詞

Northern Ireland = 北愛爾蘭 (名詞) / Northern Irish =形容詞

More info here (in English) >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

''A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.'' Well, yes, but no one would know what you were talking about 😂

We jump straight into some common grammar in the introduction episode.

be verbs - am, is, are

apostrophe + s - 's (撇號)

生 詞 表 >>>

belongs to = 屬於我的 That bag belongs to me = 那個包包是我的

grammar = 文法

episode 1 = 第1集

beginner = 初級

intermediate = 中級

advanced = 高級

contractions = 縮寫 (e.g. it is = it’s, I am = I’m, who is = who’s, they are = they’re)

reductions = linguistic reductions are lost sounds in words, this happens in spoken English. For example; going to = gonna/ want to = wanna/ a cup of = a cuppa

phrases = 片語

accent = 口音