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We got Alastair Budge (creator of the English LEARNING For Curious Minds PODCAST) onto My Fluent Podcast to talk about using podcasts as a means of learning a language.
The whole philosophy behind Leonardo English is to help people improve their English in a more interesting way. In over 250 episodes, Alistair shares stories about people's lives and how things work. He kind of explains how things work.
Video version of the podcast:
Time stamps / topics
1:47 Alastair learning Italian
6:05 Why learning languages with podcasts?
13:27 What podcast apps we should use to learn languages
18:02 Language skills that can be improved by listening to podcasts
19:57 The shadowing technique
23:36 Alexander Arguelles and shadowing
24:46 The IPA system (International Phonetic System)
29:32 What inspired Alastair to creat Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts
36:40 How Alastair comes up with new episodes
38:13 How an episode gets created
40:33 Why Alastair interviewed 250 members.
43:41 Is the podcast too hard for beginners?
46:29 Start out with your own podcast!
48:16 The word "set" in English has 430 different meanings
49:40 Least favorite words
52:39 Outro / some last words of Alastair
Vocabulary list:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oii-iRiLhchDJ4ZrfVWv7N9eQmAojGoCOUWHe9PX-5Y/edit?usp=sharing
Alexander Arguelles YouTube channel.
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Leonardo English - English Learning for Curious Minds Podcasts:
https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts
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Sarah tells the origin story of her YouTube Channel (reading series), where she started out reading out loud a book in Italian.
At the time she started reading on YouTube, she had only been studying Italian for 2 months!
First Video: Reading in Italian until I'm Fluent
of the Reading in Italian Series
The Book Sarah is reading out in her series: Come Una Notte a Bali by Gianluca Gotto
Italian Book Club (Facebook Group)
Bob talks about his language learning methods and how he ended up in Argentina to learn Spanish. He has been tracking his language learning progress in form of videos in which he speaks in Spanish.
Some of the topics we cover:
Check out Bob's YouTube Channel.
My Fluent Podcast was selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 15 Intermediate English Podcasts on the web.
India is a very enthusiastic learner of German from Ireland. She tells us about her language journey in which she mainly used the immersion approach to become fluent in German. The most important part of this whole method of immersion learning is obviosly your immersion. You absolutely need to have fun! India watched a lot of TV series, movies, listened to podcasts, read books and in general had a lot of fun in the process!
➡️Video Version of The Interview (with full shownotes: https://youtu.be/PZFnwsVkYo8?si=8AQd8KIR84fI7O-j
Learn from her experience and become a better language learner! India even kept track of her journey in form of different stats she wrote down and through recording herself in her lovely YouTube Channel:
This is part 1 of 2. Antonello Zanini from Italy is quite an inspiration to me. He is a software engineer and technical writer and is a succesful writer on Medium.
Spreading knowledge through writing is his mission
Daniel and Antonello discuss the importance of building a writing habit in order to improve your English writing skills (and other skills as well). Spending a lot of hours writing is not necessary to become good at it, but rather consistency and daily practice are key.
Antonello shares his experience using ChatGPT as a language learning tool to replace Italki, which he feels has become more focused on selling courses and buying hours with teachers. He wrote his daily notes on ChatGPT and asked for feedback, finding that the responses are similar to what he would receive from a human.
In the second part of our chat with Cara Leopold. (Link to first part), we discuss the movie Groundhog Day. The episode is meant to be like a Movie Club.
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.
Back-to-School Movie Challenge
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 school-themed 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 at the end to chat with me and other film lovers about the movie clips.
Time stamps
0:00:01 Introduction to Groundhog Day and Movie Challenge
0:02:00 Groundhog Day
0:07:16 Childhood Impressions and Expectations
0:07:57 Hilarious Moments that Cracked Me Up
0:08:09 Appreciating Comedy and Bill Murray's Humor
0:09:28 The stages
0:11:34 Making the best of any situation
0:13:20 Profound Character Development
0:15:32 Speculations on the Length of Phil's Time Loop
0:17:32 Phil Murray's Versatility in Comedy and Drama
0:19:03 A Subtle and Brilliant Performance by Phil Murray
0:22:36 Discussing the usefulness and cultural context of certain expressions
0:25:25 Appreciating memorable scenes and lessons from the movie
Links
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/
Back-to-School Movie Challenge
https://leolistening.podia.com/back-to-school-movie-challenge
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 school-themed 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 at the end to chat with me and other film lovers about the movie clips.
Cara's 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: Coming soon.
Spotify Playlist (Cara Leopold Interviews)
Leo Listening Youtube Channel:
Time stamps
0:00:02 Introduction and passion for interviewing
0:06:48 Learning French through Observation and Listening
0:08:54 Lack of focus on listening skills in education
0:11:02 Contrasting traditional language learning methods with contextual learning
0:19:08 Misconceptions about TED Talks and Transcripts
0:25:42 Overcoming Cultural References in Movies
0:28:23 The Importance of Movie Analysis and Resources
0:38:48 Challenges of Sound Mixing in Cinema and Home Entertainment
0:41:47 Translating Subtitles and Cultural References
0:44:55 American Actors Tackling South African Accents
0:46:11 Frustration with movie accents and Leo Listening's mission 0:47:52 Where to Find Cara's Online Presence
Other Links
Evernote (note taking app/website)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ncx0nPt9IrclOCyh77Ozv?si=ce218cfa3a854b26
Martin Johnston loves to teach English through personal stories (storytelling) and through non conventional methods. It's great to learn from him and his podcast. He really knows a thing or two about learning (teaching) a language, especially British English.
His "unfiltered" podcast (Rock N'Roll English, first episode aired in 2016) with real life stories is there to improve our English.
In this interview, we learn more about Martin's language story, how he ended up in Italy and went back to the UK and how his podcast came to be. It's inspiring and educational at the same time. A shout-out to Martin Johnston!
"You don't have to be great to start, but if you want to be great, you have to start."
Time stamps:
04:02 Who is Martin Johnston?
09:24 Italian vs Regional Dialects (e.g. Sicilian Dialects)
12:26 The Origin Story of Rock N'Roll English
15:12 The First Episode
24:47 Rock N'Roll Vocabulary Bible
28:25 The Importance of Listening
39:01 Introducing the Jungle Listening Course
40:11 Module 1: Learning New Movements (the 44 Sounds of English)
43:30 Module 2: Learning to Differentiate Between Smilar Sounds
44:46 End of Module 2 / Modul 3: Transcribing Practice
46:47 Module 4: Connected Speech and Word Changes
54:55 Rock N'Roll Family
59:08 Making a Living Out of Podcasting is Hard work!
01:03:33 Preparation
01:10:03 Favorite Word
Links:
Check out Martin's Jungle Listening Course https://www.rocknrollenglish.com/courses/junglelistening
Video version of this podcast.
You'll find the link to Sheila's Podcast (All About You Podcast) here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/38xZM7ID8vP1aJR5KuFrQS?si=eaed93c8d9004870
All About You Podcast on YouTube.
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Christina has been learning many languages such as
In this interview, you'll learn about how Christina learn these languages. We also talk about
- dialects, twitter for language learning, Toki Pona (constructed language) and more.
More to come...
The Pluriglot: Christina's Twitter account.🐦For language enthusiasts.
The Horror of Learning Spanish: Nothing improves your language skills faster than a captivating story. Christina's Blog on Substack for Spanish leaners.
Contact Daniel: MyFluentPodcast@Gmail.com
Welcome to my inspirational language learning podcast. Where I interview other language lovers.
Currently, I strive to enhance my Italian skills. One podcast that has become my go-to resource is "3' Grezzi" [grezzi means raw, unedited] by Cristina Marras.
Join me in this episode as I sit down with Cristina, the talented host of "3' Grezzi," a very useful podcast in Italian with a wide range of topics (the podcast is not scripted and comes with Italian transcription and English translation. On YouTube with rolling English subtitles.). In our conversation, Cristina shares her personal language journey, her passion for podcasting, and more.
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