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A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
Well, hello!  It’s just me this time and I'm here to bring you a roundup of the latest collection of podcast episodes! 

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Viktor!   We chatted about learning English at a young age, everything you need to know about Disc Golf, speaking English when you don’t need to, and not worrying too much your vocabulary...

Pronunciation tip = Practicing the difference between the  /dʒ/  ('jam') and /j/ ('yam') consonant sounds!

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com    

Guest = Viktor   https://www.discgolfstream.com/inside-disc-golf-podcast

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
 
This episode has a Christmas theme and a lesson in bravery.  While I was facilitating a conversation session, I set up my computer and microphone and invited attendees to leave a message starting with “For me, the holidays mean...”.  Did anyone leave a message?  Well, let’s see...

Pronunciation tip = How we sound the letter H = /h/... but do we say "a hotel" or "an hotel"? 

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com    

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Anton!   We chatted about growing up with two languages, living by the sea, abbreviations, and always counting numbers and spelling words in one language...

Vocabulary tip = Abbreviations and acronyms!  We look at the difference between them, and practice 3 very common ones...

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com    

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Satu about my favourite drink in the world = tea!   We chatted about the difference between tea bags and loose-leaf tea, who drinks the most tea in the world, and what tea is best to drink at different times of the day...

Vocabulary tip = It's ok to say 'very'!  Here we look at the difference between 'very' + Gradable adjectives and their Ungradable versions...

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

Guest = Satu   www.aito-tea.fi    @aito_tea (IG)

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Lucy!   We chatted about not pronouncing, or “dropping”, the letter ‘t’, Cockney Rhyming Slang, and your mirror neurons – how mirroring other people (doing what they do) can help you learn a language...

Pronunciation tip = How some 't' sounds in English are not necessary, so drop them!

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     

This episode, I'm chatting with Valéria!  We chatted about the privilege of learning English at school, writing a thesis about non-native speakers working and learning the language in a new country, and what she feels is the difference between North America and Europe...

Grammar tip : "The" v. "A" - how we use Definite and Indefinite Articles.

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle (Twitter)    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Jaimee!   We chatted about how vowel sounds differ between New Zealand and the UK, socio-linguistics and “kiwiness”, politely asking people to speak more slowly, and what to expect when you visit New Zealand...

Vocabulary tip = Different ways to ask people to repeat what they said in English.

Pronunciation tip = The difference between the long  /ɜː/ ("work") and /ɔː/ ("walk")  vowel sounds. 

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     

This episode, I'm chatting with Eric from @compellingtalks and @ChimayoPress!  We chatted about American accents, tips for students of different disciplines preparing for Questions and Answers (or “Q & A”s) and long writing projects in English, and how being clear is often more important than being brief...

Pronunciation tip = How and why we use "Question Tags"!


Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Guest = Eric Roth  @compellingtalks  & @ChimayoPress (Twitter)

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle (Twitter)    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Tamara!   We chatted about her first English words, learning English at bartending classes, working on texts for website interfaces, and the name of her new puppy...

Quick Grammar tip = the difference between the Present Simple and the Present Continuous.

Pronunciation tip = Making the difference between the unvoiced /f/ (eff) and the voiced /v/ (vee) consonant sounds.

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle (Twitter)    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com