Master English With Tim

Atomic Habits by James Clear is one of the most successful books on psychology and motivation of the past decade. Atomic Habits shows how to build new and powerful habits starting from small and usually painless
changes. In Episode 39, Tim summarizes this incredibly useful book, and tells how to use its methods to speak  better English.

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Adventure 1: The Arctic Circle (11:12)
Tim interviews a close friend of his family, Faye, an eleven year old girl who traveled to the Arctic Circle for a private meeting with Santa Claus.

Adventure 2: Toys in the Woods (5:42)
Tim interviews his dad, who describes a Christmas tradition of his own invention.

¡¡¡ADVENTURE 3: DINOSAUR HUNTING ON CHRISTMAS!!!
Tim interviews Shalva, a paleontologist from Tbilisi, Georgia. Shalva, along with Tim, Tim’s dad, Faye and Faye’s mom, went on a Christmas dinosaur safari- and the adventure of a lifetime. Hear Shalva tell all about it.

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I go under the bed sheets and fall into a crouch in a wooden dinghy in the trough of a cold titanium swell awash with 1000-ruble bills and islands of blood clots. I don’t know how to stand. The sky is pre-tornado green. I peer over the edge of the boat, grasp at the bills and toss them onto the rotted deck. I don’t see any MVDs, but the thought of their arrival makes me tension my gut, girding my intestines upwards, lessening the pressure they exert on my pelvis. A minted thumb is massaging circles on my aorta, causing me to pull my shoulder blades back and together. The left one moves down farther to try and squeeze the thumb out.

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French loanwords in English, for example déjà vu and bon vivant are quite popular and can help you sound more cool and sophisticated.
Use the free PDF below to help remember these words:
French words in English
(You may also want to review German loanwords from Episode #35!)

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Loanwords are words taken from one language that become part of another language, for example zeitgeist and panzer from German. Learn these and many other German loanwords in Episode 35.
Use the free PDF below to help remember these words:
German Loanword Crossword

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English word histories and English root words help you to learn new and unusual words! English word histories also help you understand words you already know in a new, fresh way.
In Episode #34, Tim takes a deep look at a single Proto-Indo-European root, BL, which is found in words like BALL, BELLY, BALLOON and BELLOWS. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was a language first spoken around 6500 years before present in what is now Ukraine. Learning many words with the same root helps you make connections between words so you remember them better.
You can remember the words in today’s episode even better with this handy PDF:
English Words With the PIE root BL
Tim also discussed ancient PIE roots in two episodes earlier in 2023:
Episode #15: Ancient word roots. Plus horror stories. – English with Tim
Episode #19: Learn D1 English with ancient word roots. – English with Tim

Cover photo credit: Koreni-00 - Корень — Википедия (wikipedia.org)

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Portmanteaus, also known as blend words, are words that consist of the beginning of one word and the end of another. Some examples of portmanteaus are smog (smoke + fog) or cronut (croissant + donut). Some portmanteaus have a short life and disappear from the language, while others (like smog) are so commonly used that we forget their origin.
In Episode 33, Tim explains the meanings of ten portmanteaus.

Cover photo credit: By Jmb at en.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3051583

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In this week’s episode, Tim suggests five popular YouTube channels to learn English:
1. Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell
2. Accurate English
3. Rachel’s English
4. English Class 101
5. Learn English With TV Series

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There are two keys to sounding more like a native speaker of English: chewing gum pronunciation, and phrasal verbs, 10 of which you can learn in this week’s episode.

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Ask any student the hardest things about learning English, and most will tell you, “questions“. Don’t forget another sentence type, though: negative statements. Listen to Episode 30 to learn how to make this crucial sentence type!

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