Reading an article by Gavin Lamb (PhD) about the conclusions of academic studies into language learning, and adding my own reflections and comments. What does research tell us about the best way to learn a language? What are the most important things to consider? What are the best methods? The article boils it all down to three main points. Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sPY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join me as I read through a bizarre online game. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a lemon? No? Well, neither had I, until I played this game. Can I escape the kitchen, become human again and avoid being chopped up and turned into a juice! Watch out for some descriptive language and some funny moments along the way! Story by Daniel Champion on www.textadventures.co.uk Episode page with links https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sPF Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let me read you a classic Sherlock Holmes detective story, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I'll read the original text and stop regularly in order to explain what is happening so you can follow the story. 📄 Episode page with PDF transcript https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sPO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A conversation with Hadar Shemesh, a non-native speaker who has improved her English to a very high level, and who now shares her knowledge and experience with the world through her podcast and YouTube channel. Hadar describes her own experiences of learning English and mastering pronunciation. This episode is all about the voyage of discovery that is learning a language. 👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOJ 👉 Hadar's episode with Luke https://hadarshemesh.com/magazine/interview-with-luke-from-lukes-english-podcast/ 👉 Hadar's website https://hadarshemesh.com/ 👉 Hadar's podcast (InFluency Podcast) https://hadarshemesh.com/influency-podcast/ 👉 Hadar's YouTube channel @hadar.shemesh https://www.youtube.com/@hadar.shemesh​ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In conversation with Andy Cooke, an English teacher from England who is very popular on Instagram. We talk about Andy's background, becoming an English teacher, getting big on Instagram, ChatGPT and a few other tangents along the way. Includes a few songs on the guitar at the end of the episode. 👉 Episode page on teacherluke.co.uk https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sPG 👉 🎧 Listen to Luke's Podcast using a podcast app on your phone (audio episodes have more content) https://plinkhq.com/i/312059190?to=page 👉 Andy's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/englishwithcooke/ 👉 Andy's Website https://ewcooke.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finally, here is the third part of this series about English slang words and expressions that most British people know, but which will probably confuse almost everyone else! I started this series in 2019. It's only taken me nearly 4 years to get round to finishing it. Learn loads of slang and culture, plus a bit of British history too. Vocabulary and transcript available on the episode page here https://wp.me/p4IuUx-aj8 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maria is a CELTA and DELTA qualified teacher and teacher-trainer who has been helping people prepare for IELTS for over 7 years. Maria knows a lot of tips, tricks and inside information about succeeding in IELTS. She got a band-9 score in the speaking part of the test herself and she's not a native speaker. In this episode we talk about the speaking part of the IELTS test, and give plenty of useful advice for getting the best score possible in this tricky test. 👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sPw 👉 Maria's useful website on IELTS with fresh speaking topics: 🇬🇧 https://yourielts.net/ 🇷🇺 https://yourielts.ru/ 👉 Maria and Rory's IELTS Speaking for Success podcast: https://fanlink.to/ieltssfs Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amber returns to the podcast to tell us some grisly stories about the history of Paris. Amber is a bit of an expert about Paris. She has read pretty much every book about the city and is also a registered tour guide here. A few years ago she set up a podcast called Paname Podcast (Paname is a nickname for Paris). Each episode contains a true story from history, with tales of battle, execution, romance, tragedy and adventure. You can get it where you get your podcasts. In this episode Amber comes onto LEP to share a few stories from her podcast series. Includes a 30-minute ramble at the end of the episode. 👉 Listen to Amber's podcast https://plinkhq.com/i/1241927554?to=page 👉 Page for this episode on my website https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

👉 Take Carlos' survey here https://forms.ua.pt/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=699278&lang=en Carlos Soares, from the University of Aveiro in Portugal, is doing a master's degree dissertation all about language learning podcasts. He contacted me to conduct an interview as part of his research, and he agreed for me to publish it as an episode of my podcast. Carlos asks me about my thoughts on learning English through listening, my approach to making my podcast and some other details. 👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sPa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian Sebastian Marx returns to the podcast in order to talk about Yiddish words which have found their way into the English language, including common words like bagel, glitch and schmooze and plenty more. 👉 Episode page with links, etc https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOX 👉 Sebastian Marx's website https://www.sebmarx.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is that a confusing title? Hopefully not. As you might expect, it's a little summary of what's included in the episode. To give you some more details, Alastair Budge is the host of a podcast called "English Learning for Curious Minds" and he has created a new audio drama for English learners called "Pioneers of the Continuum". It's a time-travel adventure for English learners, and Alastair asked me to be the narrator for episode 1. In this episode of LEP, we talk about Alastair's story, living in Malta, learning English by immersion, cliches and complaints from English speakers visiting Paris and Alastair's story about playing the bagpipes on the streets of Paris. The audio version includes 30+mins of rambling from me at the end. Enjoy! 👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOL 👉 Alastair's website (podcasts + more) https://www.leonardoenglish.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Talking to my parents about the coronation ceremony of King Charles III which happened in Westminster, London on Saturday 6 May. Includes descriptions of the ceremony and discussion of some of the issues related to it, plus a few dodgy jokes along the way 👑. 👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.