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A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
Well, hello!  It’s just me this time and I'm here to bring you a roundup of the latest collection of podcast episodes! 

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Viktor!   We chatted about learning English at a young age, everything you need to know about Disc Golf, speaking English when you don’t need to, and not worrying too much your vocabulary...

Pronunciation tip = Practicing the difference between the  /dʒ/  ('jam') and /j/ ('yam') consonant sounds!

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com    

Guest = Viktor   https://www.discgolfstream.com/inside-disc-golf-podcast

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
 
This episode has a Christmas theme and a lesson in bravery.  While I was facilitating a conversation session, I set up my computer and microphone and invited attendees to leave a message starting with “For me, the holidays mean...”.  Did anyone leave a message?  Well, let’s see...

Pronunciation tip = How we sound the letter H = /h/... but do we say "a hotel" or "an hotel"? 

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com    

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Anton!   We chatted about growing up with two languages, living by the sea, abbreviations, and always counting numbers and spelling words in one language...

Vocabulary tip = Abbreviations and acronyms!  We look at the difference between them, and practice 3 very common ones...

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com    

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Satu about my favourite drink in the world = tea!   We chatted about the difference between tea bags and loose-leaf tea, who drinks the most tea in the world, and what tea is best to drink at different times of the day...

Vocabulary tip = It's ok to say 'very'!  Here we look at the difference between 'very' + Gradable adjectives and their Ungradable versions...

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

Guest = Satu   www.aito-tea.fi    @aito_tea (IG)

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Lucy!   We chatted about not pronouncing, or “dropping”, the letter ‘t’, Cockney Rhyming Slang, and your mirror neurons – how mirroring other people (doing what they do) can help you learn a language...

Pronunciation tip = How some 't' sounds in English are not necessary, so drop them!

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     

This episode, I'm chatting with Valéria!  We chatted about the privilege of learning English at school, writing a thesis about non-native speakers working and learning the language in a new country, and what she feels is the difference between North America and Europe...

Grammar tip : "The" v. "A" - how we use Definite and Indefinite Articles.

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle (Twitter)    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Jaimee!   We chatted about how vowel sounds differ between New Zealand and the UK, socio-linguistics and “kiwiness”, politely asking people to speak more slowly, and what to expect when you visit New Zealand...

Vocabulary tip = Different ways to ask people to repeat what they said in English.

Pronunciation tip = The difference between the long  /ɜː/ ("work") and /ɔː/ ("walk")  vowel sounds. 

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     

This episode, I'm chatting with Eric from @compellingtalks and @ChimayoPress!  We chatted about American accents, tips for students of different disciplines preparing for Questions and Answers (or “Q & A”s) and long writing projects in English, and how being clear is often more important than being brief...

Pronunciation tip = How and why we use "Question Tags"!


Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Guest = Eric Roth  @compellingtalks  & @ChimayoPress (Twitter)

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle (Twitter)    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Tamara!   We chatted about her first English words, learning English at bartending classes, working on texts for website interfaces, and the name of her new puppy...

Quick Grammar tip = the difference between the Present Simple and the Present Continuous.

Pronunciation tip = Making the difference between the unvoiced /f/ (eff) and the voiced /v/ (vee) consonant sounds.

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle (Twitter)    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Aurora!   We chatted about the differences in the French and English sound worlds, learning English working in a pub (in this case, the pub chain O’Neill’s in the UK), and when you realise you get the joke in English...

Pronunciation tip = Making the difference between the /ʌ/ ("cup") and the /o/ ("cop") vowel sounds.

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Suzanne from @EnglishSmarts!   We chatted about using Twitter for learning languages, Suzanne’s first language lessons, using phonetic symbols to help your English pronunciation, and making sure you stress the right syllable...

Pronunciation tip = Looking at how words that look similar, or exactly the same, have different syllable stresses for different meanings.

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Guest = Suzanne  @EnglishSmarts, @DazzleEnglish, @150phrasalverbs (Twitter), www.recipesforenglish.com 

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle (Twitter)    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

What is more satisfying, gift-giving or receiving? Why?

Everyone loves to receive gifts of course, but in my culture, when someone gives you something, you are then indebted to them, and this obligation can be somewhat stressful. For that reason, I find it more rewarding to give a gift, especially if it is to someone I love and I see that they enjoy what I have given them. That feeling is better than any gift you could receive.

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!      

As most people have either just gone back to school or are preparing to go back, or are now thinking about starting new courses, this bonus episode brings together all the advice on learning English given by my guests so far!      

Presenter = Sam  @_emaileng (Twitter, IG),  @emaileng (TikTok)      

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com      

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)   www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com 

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     

This episode, it's just me again!  A short and sweet episode before I take a short break...     

Whether you're a good cook or a bad cook, why not follow a recipe in English?   My recommendation is Chocolate Brownies by the British chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (link attached)!      

Pronunciation tip = making the difference between the / w / and / v / sounds.     


Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle  @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com      

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)   www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com      

Chocolate Brownies: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/04/brownie-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall      

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     

This episode, I'm chatting with Risto and Carolina from the Stick With Us podcast!   We chatted about the influence of US and UK sitcoms (with a great reference to the UK sitcom “The IT Crowd”), hosting their own podcast and misunderstandings in English...

Pronunciation tip = Many learners roll their 'r's ... in English, it's not necessary!      


Presenter =  Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle  @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com     

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)    www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

Guest = Risto & Carolina, Stick With Us Podcast = https://podtail.com/fi/podcast/stick-with-us/

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
  
This episode, I'm chatting with Marlene!   We chatted about holidays in the USA, learning English through gaming, and the difference between virtual reality and augmented reality...

Grammar tip = How we view things in English = is it ON or IN the Internet?  Do we get IN or ON a bus?  Do we go ON or IN holiday?     

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com       

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)     www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
 
This episode, I'm chatting with Laurence!   We chatted about the difference between copy editing and proofreading, the importance of being consistent in your writing, and UK v US spellings...

Pronunciation tip = words with an '-OUGH' spelling in English can have very different sounds....     

Presenter = Sam @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle  @MaraCarlyle    www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com     

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)   www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com      

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
 
This episode, I'm chatting with Niina!   We chatted about speaking Australian English, working with international talent, and the difficulties of phrasal verbs...

Vocabulary and Grammar tip = 3 x Phrasal Verbs with the verb 'PUT' - Put On, Put Off, Put Out.     

Presenter =  Sam  @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (TikTok)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle   @MaraCarlyle   www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com     

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)   www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     

A podcast for English learners!  Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!     
 
This episode, I'm chatting with Ling!  We chatted about starting English very young, teaching marketing, and the benefits of reading your writing out loud...

Pronunciation = the difference between the short / I / sound (ship) and the long / i: / sound (sheep).     

Presenter =  Sam   @_emaileng (Twitter, IG), @emaileng (Twitter)     

Music = "Baby Bloodheart" by Mara Carlyle  @MaraCarlyle      www.maracarlyle.bandcamp.com     

Artwork = Penny Rossano  @pennyrossanomusicart (IG)   www.pennyrossanoillustrations.com     
   
Oxford Royale reference:  https://www.oxford-royale.com/articles/english-puns-wordplay/