592. It always seems impossible until it's done

An unedited ramble about motivation for language learning, dealing with challenges, getting started on a task, getting work done and my process for making episodes of the podcast. There’s also some news, some OPP and a couple of songs on the guitar at the end. Vocabulary notes, links, videos and song lyrics are available on the episode page.

Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9o9

italki offer www.teacherluke.co.uk/talk 

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591. London Native Speaker Interviews REVISITED (Part 1)

Revisiting a video I made for YouTube in 2009 and teaching you some descriptive and idiomatic vocabulary in the process.

Episode page with video, transcript and vocabulary notes https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9lZ 

English lessons on Cambly + 10 free minutes www.teacherluke.co.uk/cambly

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590. [2/2] Film Club: Avengers Endgame / Marvel Cinematic Universe (with Fred Eyangoh)

Part 2 of this film club episode, including the rest of my chat with Fred Eyangoh and then a monologue from me. This one contains predictions for Avengers Endgame, the future of Marvel Studios and some other film franchises including Star Wars. No spoilers given! Notes, scripts and videos available.

Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9jQ 

Check out "The Wrong Man" by Spoken - free audio, English study guides and transcripts here http://www.getspoken.com/lep 

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589. [1/2] Film Club: Avengers Endgame / Marvel Cinematic Universe (with Fred Eyangoh)

Part 1 of a big ramble about Avengers Endgame, Marvel Studios and comic book movies in general with my friend, comedian Fred Eyangoh. No spoilers! Part 2 coming soon...

Episode page with scripts, notes and videos https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9iw 

Check out "The Wrong Man" by Spoken - free audio, English study guides and transcripts here http://www.getspoken.com/lep 

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588. Punctuation Rules / Book Review (Part 2) Apostrophe, Full Stop, Comma

Part 2 of my episode about punctuation. This one covers punctuation rules for apostrophe, full stop and comma. Also you can hear the rest of my book review of Punctuation..?  by User Design. Transcript available.

English lessons on Cambly + 10 free minutes www.teacherluke.co.uk/cambly

Episode page with transcript and pictures https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9ih 

Punctuation..? by User Design - available from various bookshops https://www.userdesignillustrationandtypesetting.com/books/punctuation/index.html

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587. Punctuation Rules / Book Review (Part 1)

This episode is about the importance of punctuation in writing. I'll teach you the names of various punctuation symbols and review a cool punctuation reference book that someone sent me recently, and yes I do think it is possible to have a cool book about punctuation! Transcript available.

English lessons on Cambly + 10 free minutes www.teacherluke.co.uk/cambly

Episode page with transcript and pictures https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9i9 

Punctuation..? by User Design - available from various bookshops https://www.userdesignillustrationandtypesetting.com/books/punctuation/index.html

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10 years ago to this day I published the first episode of LEP.

10 years later I can now say that I'm making a living from doing what I love. 

Thank you for listening and making my podcast what it is today!

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586. The Importance of Listening

Recently I was reading a book about listening and learning English. This episode is a summary of what I read, including details of how listening fits in with learning English, some considerations of the importance of listening and also some tips for how to improve your English with audio.

Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9eg

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585. Alternative British Citizenship Tests with Paul Taylor

Testing Paul again on his knowledge of Britishness with several alternative British citizenship tests and some very British problems.

Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9dd

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584. Posh or not posh? (Part 3) with Amber & Paul

Amber & Paul join me to talk again about poshness, posh accents and posh celebrities. This episode is full of different British accents - posh, RP and regional differences. It's also full of comedy and I found myself laughing out loud while editing this, especially the interview with the football player that Paul tells us about. I hope you enjoy it.

Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-9bL

italki offer https://www.teacherluke.co.uk/talk 

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