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A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Aurora!   We chatted about the differences in the French and English sound worlds, learning English working in a pub (in this case, the pub chain O’Neill’s in the UK), and when you realise you get the joke in English...

Pronunciation tip = Making the difference between the /ʌ/ ("cup") and the /o/ ("cop") 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 Suzanne from @EnglishSmarts!   We chatted about using Twitter for learning languages, Suzanne’s first language lessons, using phonetic symbols to help your English pronunciation, and making sure you stress the right syllable...

Pronunciation tip = Looking at how words that look similar, or exactly the same, have different syllable stresses for different meanings.

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

Guest = Suzanne  @EnglishSmarts, @DazzleEnglish, @150phrasalverbs (Twitter), www.recipesforenglish.com 

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!      

As most people have either just gone back to school or are preparing to go back, or are now thinking about starting new courses, this bonus episode brings together all the advice on learning English given by my guests so far!      

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, it's just me again!  A short and sweet episode before I take a short break...     

Whether you're a good cook or a bad cook, why not follow a recipe in English?   My recommendation is Chocolate Brownies by the British chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (link attached)!      

Pronunciation tip = making the difference between the / w / and / v / 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      

Chocolate Brownies: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/04/brownie-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall      

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

This episode, I'm chatting with Risto and Carolina from the Stick With Us podcast!   We chatted about the influence of US and UK sitcoms (with a great reference to the UK sitcom “The IT Crowd”), hosting their own podcast and misunderstandings in English...

Pronunciation tip = Many learners roll their 'r's ... in English, it's not necessary!      


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 = Risto & Carolina, Stick With Us Podcast = https://podtail.com/fi/podcast/stick-with-us/

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Marlene!   We chatted about holidays in the USA, learning English through gaming, and the difference between virtual reality and augmented reality...

Grammar tip = How we view things in English = is it ON or IN the Internet?  Do we get IN or ON a bus?  Do we go ON or IN holiday?     

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 Laurence!   We chatted about the difference between copy editing and proofreading, the importance of being consistent in your writing, and UK v US spellings...

Pronunciation tip = words with an '-OUGH' spelling in English can have very different 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 Niina!   We chatted about speaking Australian English, working with international talent, and the difficulties of phrasal verbs...

Vocabulary and Grammar tip = 3 x Phrasal Verbs with the verb 'PUT' - Put On, Put Off, Put Out.     

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 Ling!  We chatted about starting English very young, teaching marketing, and the benefits of reading your writing out loud...

Pronunciation = the difference between the short / I / sound (ship) and the long / i: / sound (sheep).     

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

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

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)   www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     
   
Oxford Royale reference:  https://www.oxford-royale.com/articles/english-puns-wordplay/

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

This episode, I'm chatting with Stefan!   We chatted about simplifying your English vocabulary, saying what you actually mean, and learning English from a non-native English parent...

Vocabulary Challenge = learn 3 new and exciting words!  If you use 'Myriad', 'Ostentatious', and 'Superfluous' after listening to this episode, let me know!     

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