The Level Up English Podcast

By Michael LaversEducation Self-Improvement Language Learning

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September 20, 2023#238 Level Up English Live - Giving Advice
Every now and then, I invite the members of Level Up English to join me for a chat about different topics. This time, we spoke about giving advice. In the end, only 3 people joined, which was quite a nice casual group. All members gave some amazing advice and also used some really good vocabulary.

I hope you enjoy this episode!

In this episode, we cover:
Advice on being happy
Advice on getting good sleep
Advice on learning languages
And problems we're facing in life

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September 13, 2023#237 The Power of Groups and Movies with Cara Leopold
Cara Leopold (Leo Listening) joins me once again on the podcast to discuss the benefits of learning English in groups with her experience teaching group classes based around movies, as well as some good movies and TV series she likes to use to practice and teach English.

If you've caught this episode in 2023, Cara is relaunching her Movie Club course. You can try it out for one week in September to see if you like it. We talk more about this in the episode too

Show notes page - https://levelupenglish.school/podcast237

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Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English.

From September 13th-20th Cara is organising the Back-to-School Movie Challenge, a 1-week taste of what it's like to be in a movie club. By watching and discussing clips from high school movies together, you’ll learn new vocabulary, catch fast-spoken English and practice your speaking and writing skills with other movie-loving English learners. The challenge includes access to a discussion forum as well as a live Zoom session on September 20th to chat with me and other film lovers about the movie clips.

Join the challenge: https://leolistening.podia.com/back-to-school-movie-challenge

Cara’s website: https://leo-listening.com/
Cara’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LeoListening/
Cara’s Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caraleopold/
Cara’s Pinterest profile: https://www.pinterest.fr/leolistening/

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41 min
September 06, 2023#236 Adding 'Up' to Verbs (Part 2)
In this episode, we'll be talking about some patterns you can remember when adding UP to verbs.

Here are some examples: cloud up, clear up, finish up, drink up, break up

One of the Level Up Members recently asked about the difficult part of phrasal verbs where we add ‘up’ to a verb and why we do this. I decided to make an entire episode about it because it’s not an easy thing to get your head around. Part 1 was Episode 224.

I decided to stop the episode halfway because 1 hour of listing phrasal verbs might be a tad boring. So let's finish up the patterns in today's episode.

I will add a complete lesson on Level Up English with a quiz and subtitles to help you understand. If you want to access this as well as join a global learner community to get access to all transcripts, group lessons, and many more courses.

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29 min
August 30, 2023#235 Learn English Fast with Comprehensible Input
I had a great audio question sent in today about learning with comprehensible input. So in this episode, I cover some of the ideas behind the comprehensible input method, and then explore the input hypothesis from Stephen Krashen and how these ideas might benefit your language learning methods.

As always, keep in mind we are all different and learn in different ways, but I think a lot of these points will be relevant to most of you. Perhaps you can take something away today that you can implement (add) into your own study routine.

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33 min
August 23, 2023#234 Steve Kaufmann's Language Learning Advice
Steve Kaufmann is a polyglot who has a good level of proficiency in around 20 languages. Steve is well known for his content online and on his YouTube channel, Lingo Steve. You've probably seen him before!

Today he joined me for a really fascinating chat about language learning. I cover some of his recent YouTube videos and ask for tips on some of these topics. If you want to know more, I highly recommend going to his channel for more details.

In this episode, we cover:
Language learning mistakes
The importance of curiosity
The Intermediate Plataeu
Leaving your comfort zone
Increasing vocabulary
And of course more

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37 min
August 16, 2023#233 Don't Take Yourself So Seriously
On the private podcast last week, I chatted a bit about my experience in China and then ended on the idea of the benefit of being silly in your language learning. I thought it was a really interesting and potentially useful topic for people to hear, so I decided to turn it into a public podcast episode too.

In this episode, I’ll be talking about reasons why you shouldn’t take yourself too seriously, and how inserting more silliness into your life can benefit you - both generally and to help your English learning.

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31 min
August 09, 2023#232 Making Big Life Changes
I recently made a huge change in my life and I'm announcing it to everyone in this episode today. I'm going to talk a little bit about this change, why I made it, and some of my feelings about the future.

I then talk about change in a more general sense and give you some tips (inspired by Atomic Habits) to help you in life and language learning, as well as some useful expressions related to change.

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32 min
August 02, 2023#231 Don't Call Me 'Dear'
Do you know how to use the word 'dear'? A lot of people get confused with this term, and honestly the answer isn't as simple as you may think, so let's look into that today.

I'll cover the ways in which we use this word and why you might not want to say it to strangers.

This is a re-share of a video I posted on the English with Michael YouTube channel, so thanks for your patience with me during this busy time!

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21 min
July 26, 2023#230 Buying a House in the UK
A listener requested a topic on the housing market in the UK, so I thought I'd give it a shot and make it as interesting as I can. In this episode, I talk about the housing crisis the UK is currently going through, my own experience with buying a house and share some interesting sayings and idioms too.

As always, we look at lots of useful and high-level vocabulary. Do you know the word 'insurmountable'? Let's learn it today!

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33 min
July 19, 2023#229 The History of English with Kevin Stroud
Kevin Stroud from the History of English Podcast joins me for a fascinating discussion and dive into... well, the history of English!

In this episode, we talk about a variety of things, including:

Why TH doesn't have its own letter
In what part of England the language was standardised?
When did the first dictionaries come
Why there are so many French words in English
Why we have so many silent letters
Why we have different words for animals and meat (pig, pork)
Where English surnames come from
And more!
Don't miss this one! If you have any trouble understanding some of the difficult terms in this episode, the YouTube video version will have some definitions on screen. The Member's Transcript will help even more.

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46 min

About The Level Up English Podcast

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🇬🇧 I'm Michael Lavers and this podcast will help you improve your English. I'm an online English teacher for students learning as a second language. In this podcast, I look at a variety of…