Canguro English

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Canguro English episodes

July 30 Wife to the Louvre (Word Routes 003)
Join Christian and Matt as they take a surprising word journey from a wife to the Louvre.
48 min
July 23 Is grammar important? (Ask Canguro 002)
Join Christian and Matt as they answer listener questions. Today's big question: Is grammar important?
1 hr 20 min
July 16 Turn passive vocabulary into active vocabulary (Ask Canguro 001)
Join Christian and Matt as they answer listener questions. Today's big question: How to move passive vocabulary into active vocabulary!
1 hr 17 min
July 09 Steve Jobs - Idioms, cultural references, medical words (Canguro in the Wild 002)
Join Christian and Matt as they rank the top five multi-word constructions, cultural references, and medical words from a famous Steve Jobs speech.
1 hr 31 min
July 02 Steve Jobs - Adjectives, verbs, phrasal verbs (Canguro in the Wild 001)
Join Christian and Matt as they rank the top five adjectives, verbs, and phrasal verbs from a famous Steve Jobs speech.
1 hr 35 min
June 25 Horse to helicopter (Word Routes 002)
Join Christian and Matt on an exciting journey through English vocabulary from horse to helicopter.
48 min
June 19 Mouse to chef (Word Routes 001)
Join Christian and Matt on an exciting journey through English vocabulary from mouse to chef.
47 min
June 17 The podcast is back!
The Canguro English podcast is back! In this episode you will learn about why the podcast stopped, why it's returning, and what you can expect in the future. See you in class!
21 min
July 13, 2021 Accent and identity (with Erik Singer)
If you know me and my work then you know that I talk a lot about identity, and especially how your accent is a big part of your identity: your accent tells the story of your life.
But if you do want to change your accent, or improve your pronunciation, how do you do it?
Recently I had the pleasure of talking to someone with expert answers to that question: Erik Singer, a dialect coach who helps film and television actors to speak with an accent that is not their native accent, and because of this he knows exactly what it takes mentally and physically to change the way you speak.
In this interview we talk about how to change your accent, the best ways to practice, but more importantly if and why you should try to ‘speak like a native’.
I hope you enjoy it.
1 hr 22 min
June 13, 2021 The state of modern linguistics | The Story of Language | Bonus episode
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this bonus episode we talk about the state of modern linguistics, including the effects of the replication crisis, scientific fraud, Anglocentrism, and how the underappreciated work of Charles Sanders Peirce might offer a universal theory of how language works.
1 hr 5 min