No Te Rindas Intermediate English

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In this special episode, brothers Greg and Gabe fondly recall their favorite Christmas mornings together, including the birth of this podcast over 35 years ago!

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We have a new name....¡No Te Rindas! Intermediate English

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You know that "run" translates to "correr" in Spanish, but you may encounter some difficulty when "run" adds a preposition and no longer means "to move one's legs rapidly, such as when being chased by a bear." 

These idioms, examples of "phrasal verbs," are many.  Today, Goyo y Gabo talk about these three:

run into
run out of
run something by you

Nuestro podcast apoya a los que hablan español y quieren mejorar su inglés.  Ocupamos el espacio entre el principiante y el proficiente (los que, por ejemplo, ya pueden seguir mejorando por los medios completamente compuestos en inglés, como películas de Hollywood o la prensa popular como The New York Times.)  Si puedes entender inglés al nivel básico, pero beneficiarías del uso de español, sinónimos, y un estilo "relax," checa nuestro programa.  Hoy hablamos de tres modismos que emplean la palabra "run."

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As you advance in your English, you will begin to feel more and more ready to describe actions in the past.  In English, regular past tense forms end in "-ed."  There are THREE ways to pronounce this suffix in English, however: -d, -t, and -id. 

In this episode, we provide many humorous and easy-to-understand examples of this variety of sounds.  The verbs featured in this episode include:

called
seemed
cleaned

looked
asked
finished

and

wanted

Este episodio presenta algunos de los verbos más comunes en inglés, enfocando en el sufijo "-ed" y cuando se lo pronucia o "-d," "-t," o "-ed."  Gabo y Goyo usan anécdotas y humor para proveer contexto y repetición.

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It's frustrating to have a successful English conversation with someone but miss the slang or idiom that the other person uses to end the conversation and leave.  Gabo and Goyo provide explanations and rich examples for these and other expressions:

I've got to get going
I think I should call it a night
I gotta hit the road
I'm out
I gotta jet
I gotta head out

Por escuchar este episodio se puede detectar más facilmente como los de EEUU declaran que quieren irse.  Chécalo.

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In this episode, Gabe and Greg demonstrate several words that often get overpronounced by those learning English.  In many cases the words have lost vowel sounds over the centuries (a process called syncope) and thus are not pronounced as they are spelled.

Words in this episode include:

family
comfortable
vegetable
interest
thumb
plumber 
climb

The brothers also provide alternatives to saying these words at all when you are in informal contexts (for example, "fam" is often substituted for "family").  

Déjanos un recado de tí practicando un concepto del podcast y a lo mejor lo tocaremos en un episodio en el futuro!

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Some words in English have layers and layers of meaning, and "keep" is one such word.  This episode begins our journey to explain those many meanings, with rich, humorous examples that will "keep" you listening.

Today's episode focuses on these meanings of "keep":

Store
Borrow and use (you can still keep my blender, for example)
Continue
and 
Maintain

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In English there are several expressions that use the word "hand" or "hands" that are not intuitive to those who know that "hand" quiere decir "mano." Gabo y Goyo intentan a explicar y dar ejemplos útiles (¿mañosos? jeje) de frases como "handy," "handily," "hands down," and "under-handed."  

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When discussing the past, English speakers frequently use the expressions "used to" and "would ____" to talk about actions that were a regular part of life, referred to as the "imperfect" tense.  In this episode, Gabo and Goyo talk about four kinds of toys and games that they used to play with when they would get together during holidays and summer vacations.  They discuss the Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye, Star Wars toys, Transformers, and a dangerous war game that they used to do in their backyard that involved fire!

Listen, Smile, Y ¡No Te Rindas! es un podcast que ofrece conversaciones auténticas en un ambiente educacional, cordial, y entretenido.  Suelen ofrecer una lista de vocabulario traducida antes de empezar la conversación, mucho uso de repetición, sinónimos y español para apoyar al estudiante, y una prueba al final para determinar lo que se haya quedado en la cabeza del oyente.  Chécalo.

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Is American pronunciation confusing to you?  Why do words get pronounced like that??
Would you like to sound more native when you speak English?

In this episode, Gabo and Goyo demonstrate how vowels in English are often pronounced in a combination, despite a simple spelling.  Words like "go," "program," and "milk" are often pronounced with an extra vowel sound that is difficult to detect based on spelling alone.

They narrate various sentences and perform dialogs to illustrate what to listen for, all done with a light-hearted tone that will have you smiling while improving.  Thanks to radio personality Elic Thomas for helping out with episode 39! 

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Todos nosotros pasamos mucho tiempo estudiando un segundo idioma preocupándonos que nuestros instintos no serán correctos en el nuevo idioma (Ejemplo:  "Tomar el pelo" no existe en inglés, como ya sabes).  En el caso de estos siete modismos, tus conocimientos te prepararán muy bien para los sus correspondientes en inglés.

Los modismos son:

The Big Apple
Back and forth
A stick (para decir que alguien es flacucho)
Butterfingers
Ojiverde
Finger-lickin' good
Heartbreaker

Gabe and Greg use background music and sound to make the new a bit easier to process.  They also mix in humor and Spanish to make your English lesson feel like less work than it has to be.  Chécalo!

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