You’ll learn some ways to use technology for self-study so that you can improve your English without paying for an expensive language course abroad or reading boring grammar books. Joe Dale is an independent languages consultant specialising in how technology can enhance language learning. VOCABULARY a potpourri – a mixture (traditionally of dried flowers, herbs…
Archives for December 2022
Overcoming shyness and hesitation when speaking English – AIRC447
Do you feel shy or get blocked sometimes when you speak English? What causes this hesitation and anxiety when we speak a different language and how can we overcome it? We’ll try to help with this potential barrier to fluency in this podcast episode. Congratulations to Argentina, football World Cup Champions 2022! Unlucky France, thank…
Improve your Pronunciation with Word Stress – AIRC446
What is contrastive stress? How can you use stress to make tag questions easier and how can using stress for emphasis make your spoken English a lot more effective and communicative? All these questions, and more, will be answered in this podcast with our special guest, Clare. Clare is the host of The Smart English…
Animal Sounds and Collective Nouns – AIRC445
You’ll learn the names of the sounds that some animals make in English and what we call these animals when they are in groups. Voice message from Andrés from Colombia You might know that dogs bark, but they also growl and howl. If there’s a group, we call them a pack of dogs. Cats meaow…
How to reach a C2 Proficiency level of English with Fabio from fabiocerpelloni.com – AIRC444
How can you get to C2 Proficiency level English AND teach English for The British Council? That’s what Fabio Cerpelloni has done and on this podcast, I ask him how he did it. We also speak about Fabio’s book club which is based on telling stories in English. If you are a regular listener, Reza…