On today’s show, we talked all about work and jobs

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Segment 1 – Was speaking of what motivates us to work, and the difference between a career and just a job

Segment 2 – We talked about our personal experiences with work and finding new jobs

Segment 3 – I shared a classic story of a man named Rowland who failed 7 times, learned from his failures, and eventually became a worldwide success. We also took calls from a few listeners who shared some stories of their own.

Todays show was all about different accents and how they developed!

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Segment 1: Some history on how the American and British accents developed

Segment 2: How and why accents develop in the first place, and information on studies of how humans hear speech in different cultures

Segment 3: We’re joined by Julian, an honest to goodness Brit who shares his insights with us. Also audio examples of accents, including my little 4 year old son trying to demonstrate the American and British accents

Segment 4: Continuing with Julian, and finishing our discussion of different cultures of speech and Julian ends with some stories and his experiences

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Segment 1: This week on the program we started with an improve your writing segment designed to get you to look at ordinary objects in a different and more interesting way

Segment 2: an American Culture snapshot – all about Halloween. More specifically, how growing up as a child in America looks different from growing up elsewhere in the world. This segment discusses a normal American childhood at this time of the year.

Segment 3: experience with Police officers in America. Cliff told the story of how he got tackled by a police officer in a Las Vegas airport in 1998, among other things

Segment 4: Brandon and I discussed one last story, and took a question about American Culture, and talked a little about breaking through the language barrier

Our second show about goal setting, including listener mail and a quiz

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Segment 1. Today’s show began with a continuation of last week’s success and goals topic, focusing in on adopting the right mentalityThe English Express Question Quiz Game – comparing countries as found in the CIA world fact bookFinishing the game and read a letter from BelarusAnswered the letter with an American culture and discussion segment, talking about American conveniences and a bit of food talk

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Segment 1: We started the show with some tips on goal setting and how to be successful, including the difference between people who are successful, and the unsuccessful people of the world. (They think about things differently, and see the world in different ways) So if you want to be successful in English – or in anything else – set goals and think about how to achieve those goals.Segment 2: Finished our goal setting conversation and moved on to listener mailSegment 3: Talked a bit with our group of participants about how to be successful when you are starting a business as a foreigner in a different country.Segment 4: A question was asked of me about what I thought of Russia being in Syria, and of Putin and the United States. So, our last segment included some political thoughts and discussion

Today’s show was all about writing and stories. We started by talking about why i began the program to begin with, and went into some talk of writing with detail. Brandon and I both read the beginnings of stories we had written, and then talked about how to bring those details out in writing.

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2nd segment continued our talk, with a quick story of a how-to speech I gave back in 1999 (with brandon actually) about smashing a pie in his face.

3rd segment was a little bit from the  IELTS speaking prompt. Brandon was unprepared and not sure what to say, so if you want to hear a native speaker have trouble with an english test question, it’s a good one! The key though, is that he had something to say, and he kept talking even when he wasn’t sure.

Well, today’s show was PLANNED out really well I thought-

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We started with a writing workshop, followed by a little bit of listener mail. We played the English Express Question Quiz game with questions from the US Citizenship test. I planned to do a story at the end about a time I wrecked my truck, but we ran out of time – so we will definitely do that next week for sure.

Unfortunately we had a number of technical difficulties, which had my internet connection down for a period of time, and it went down a few times during the show as well. Very irritating, (not the least of which was the damn intro music which sounded awful!!!!) however we will have everything fixed by next week. So, if you want to hear what it sounds like when things go terribly wrong, haha this is definitely the audio file for you! and hopefully it will still be entertaining and enjoyable.

Brandon forgot about our show today, so I went ahead and did it alone. We still had a great show!

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We started with tips on writing better, how to better notice details to make a story that comes to life for your listener (or reader). The next segment we talked about some Labor Day facts, followed by listener mail and The English Express Question Quiz Game, which was on the subject of September 11th (Roman won. Email if you want to be a part of next weeks game)

and I finished the show speaking about where I was on September 11th, and an experience I had a few weeks later with a guest at the hotel where I worked at the time.

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Our first show! A little mixed up because I haven’t been on the radio for many many years, but all in all, a good first effort!

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Join us next week again, and we’ll continue to get better! Send all comments, questions, and suggestions to [email protected]! See you next week.