Hello and welcome to Mansion Interviews, a podcast which gives me an excuse to talk to interesting people while at the same time improving your English.

Now today we're going to listen to a chat I had with the wonderfully interesting Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat who is an English teacher based in London, but I met her in Sitges, near Barcelona.

Shanthi has a wonderful blog and obviously we speak about that, and many other things besides, so let's not waste any time, let me introduce you to Shanthi from englishwithatwist.com.

You can improve your listening with comprehension questions and find some help with difficult words from this interview at inglespodcast.com/shanthi . I suggest you go to the webpage, look at the show notes because this episode with Shanthi is particularly rich in vocabulary.

Puedes contestar las preguntas de comprensión y obtener ayuda con el vocabulario difícil en esta entrevista en inglespodcast.com You can answer listening comprehension questions and get help with difficult vocabulary in this interview at inglespodcast.com

Vocabulary

to backtrack - retroceder, volver atrásawkward - incómodo, torpevivacious - vivaz, animadoto frown upon - no ver con buenos ojos, estar mal vistorusty - oxidado (my Italian is pretty rusty - me falta práctica en italiano, tengo el italiano muy olvidado)to end up - terminar, acabarfrom scratch - desde ceroto be thrown into the deep end - to be made to do something difficult without being prepared for it or being given any helpcarefree - sin preocupacionesto merge - fusionarse, unirseto make redundant - despedir / to be made redundant - ser despedido (por reducción de plantilla), quedar sin trabajohuman resources - recursos humanos handkerchief - pañueloto regurgitate - repetir mecánicamentebuzzword - palabra de modato come across - encontrarse conpatterns - pautasto trigger an idea - desencadenar una ideato come up with - inventarseto embark (on) - embarcarse en, lanzarse boost - levantar, alzar, incrementarI can't stand - No puedo soportarto waffle - decir chorradas, dar vueltas / to waffle on - enrollarsehow on earth...? - como demonios....?

Shanthi's blog post on setting language-learning goals:

http://englishwithatwist.com/2015/12/29/5-tips-on-how-to-make-and-keep-your-news-year-resolution-to-improve-your-english/

It was so much fun talking with Shanthi. Don't forget you can find her website, her blog and the services she offers at: englishwithatwist.com

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Puedes contestar las preguntas de comprensión y obtener ayuda con el vocabulario difícil en esta entrevista en inglespodcast.com You can answer listening comprehension questions and get help with difficult vocabulary in this interview at inglespodcast.com