Everything you wanted to know about British cuisine its dishes their origins and, most importantly what they taste like. A culinary journey that includes marmite, chicken tikka masala, Christmas pudding, haggis and more...

The history of tea, tea idioms, how to make a good cup of tea, what did George Orwell say, The opium wars and going under cover in China. All this in the latest podcast with John

All about (mostly) English proverbs with a smattering or of sayings from far flung places such as Russia, China and Japan. 

Why do almost all coffee terms in English come from Italian? We discuss some English equivalents. We take a look at the history of coffee, colloquial words and coffee idioms.

Me and Jon (or is it Jon and I?) look at 'grammatical mistakes' made by native English speakers but are they really grammatical mistakes? We also catch up with language news with a discussion about Johnny Depp's tattoo. 

In this podcast we talk about the unusual origin of some English words plus you'll learn all about "cellar door" and "zeitgeist banana" Thank you to Jon for joining me in this podcast. Here's the link to his podcast

https://www.montyenglish.co.uk/english-language-podcast I'll be joining Jon as a guest on his podcast soon.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to teach English as a foreign language? Are you considering this as a career yourself In this lesson Gideon and Jon talk about the good the bad and the ugly of English language teaching.