Podcast appearances and mentions of leo listening

In this episode, I'm talking with Cara Leopold about the temptation to quit her small business. She shares her thoughts on what gives her motivation when she's facing doubt. We talk about mindset and how self-coaching can help us identify our blind spots. We also discuss the value of promoting yourself and how to get more comfortable with promotion. Finally, Cara shares her revelations about what she wasn't doing in the past and how to own her mistakes. This process has helped her focus on what's important - helping her clients.   Leo Listening website

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 

In this podcast episode, I'm joined by Cara Leopold, an English listening specialist, and founder of Leo Listening to talk about her experience learning French, moving to France, and eventually integrating in the local community as an expat. We also discuss English listening skills, and her new project: The Movie Club, which helps English speakers learn more idiomatic and casual language through the use of movies and TV. Check out Cara and the Movie Club here: https://leo-listening.com Check out the Bite Size Listening Courses, produced by Actual Fluency: https://actualfluency.com/courses/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actualfluency/message

I invite you to tune in to hear the rest of my conversation with Listening Expert Cara Leopold with Leo Listening.This time, we talk about how to get used to different accents and speaking speeds and motivate yourself to learn a language for work or school even if you don't want to. You'll also learn what to do if your language learning has stalled, bad habits language learners pick up when learning a language in a traditional classroom setting, reductions and linking, and how to improve your English skills by joining a movie club.Here are a couple of excerpts from our conversation:"The irony is that it's usually the words that you already know that cause the most problems.""People resent it (the English language), and I understand that because it's imposed on a lot of people, and obviously, we can't expect everyone to be excited about learning it. So I totally understand those feelings, which are valid. I think then, if you can't get excited about English, what can you get excited about? What interests you, in general?"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please take a minute to rate and review the podcast.Original theme music by Lucas Knutter Read the transcript here. Join the Express to Impress community on LinkedIn.Get my Job Interview Preparation Checklist.Familiarize yourself with different English accents by visiting the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) website.Learn more about Cara's Movie Club.Watch Rachel's series: 100 Most Common Words in American English.Boost your language skills and gain friends with the Language TV Club.

Friends is one of the most watched TV shows of all time and is used by English learners all over the world. In part one of their two-part conversation Elle chats with Cara of Leo Listening about the show's popularity and some aspects that haven't aged so well!

Cara Leopold is the founder of Leo Listening, where she helps "intrepid travellers and adventurous expats improve their English listening skills so they can better understand and better connect with fast-talking native speakers through their love of films." In the interview, we talk about how she learned French and the best way to learn languages through TV shows and movies. For show notes, visit LanguageMastery.com/show

In this episode, I'm joined by Cara Leopold from Leo Listening. Cara is an online English listening skills coach, and movie fan who helps adventurous expats and intrepid travellers harness their love of movies to understand authentic English, so they can connect with the cultures behind the films and other movie lovers around the world. Cara has an amazing community called 'Movie Club'. 'Movie Club' is a community for movie lovers who want to understand authentic spoken English and speak it too. You'll find new confidence in your listening, speaking and pronunciation skills because you'll use short, regular activities that work to help you improve. And you'll have a native speaker (Cara) watching alongside you to offer a quick explanation…or a little feedback when you need it. She is a language learner herself as she's from Scotland but speaks fluent French, so you'll hear us talk about: understanding fast speech living abroad the importance of noticing language and active listening what's wrong with the way listening skills are taught watching movies in another language English accents and the sexiest English accent in the world She also shared her own story about a photo of a dinner with her colleagues she took in Turkey (link below) Given that this is mainly an episode about listening skills, at the end of it I decided to focus on a little pronunciation feature I'd noticed in Cara's speech: the glottal stop. This is a type of consonant sound that might make native speakers of English hard to understand. You'll find a link to a YouTube video below if you want to explore this in more detail. Episode Links Cara's photo (www.stolaroid.com/cara) Cara's website (leo-listening.com) Cara's Movie Club (leo-listening.com/movie-club) Cara's free guide on how to understand movies (leo-listening.com/understand-movies-in-english) The Ricky Gervais Show (Season 1, Episode 1) Lots of glottal stops there! (youtube.com/watch?v=aRhiEhz5EIM) The Kiwi accent is the sexiest in the world (article) (lonelyplanet.com/articles/sexiest-accent-suvey-kiwi-new-zealand) The glottal stop explained (YouTube video by Pronunciation with Emma) (youtube.com/watch?v=chcjHwWwVxQ) My podcast page on my website (stolaroid.com/stories) Get in touch with me, don't be a stranger! Download my free guide and join my private email list (stolaroid.com/get-your-guide) Email me at fabio@stolaroid.com - I reply to every email I'm also on Instagram (fabio_stolaroid) and Facebook (Fabio Stolaroid).

On the 13th episode of the Teacher Interview, we talk to Cara from Leo Listening!Cara is an English listening skills coach who brings together adventurous expats and intrepid travelers to watch and discuss movies in English so they can understand native speakers, themselves and the world around them better.In this interview, Cara shares her best tips and answers the following questions:What are students doing wrong when it comes to studying with movies?Is it better to use movies or TV shows?Should I used subtitles when I'm watching movies?How can I improve my English?What is your number one sightseeing tip for France?and much more!Get Cara's free guide here:Leo-Listening.comOn the English 2.0 Podcast, I help you express yourself more naturally and smoothly. We go beyond the words and phrases and talk about how to make your English sound more natural, proper mindset, and success principles.Do you have a question?Please email me at: al AT alsensei DOT com

Today we speak to Cara from Leo Listening about... listening! And more specifically, how you can use films to improve just that. Plus some great chat about Donald Trump, Home Alone and the best name on a t-shirt ever! So put on your headphones, sit back and just keeeeeeeep on ROCKin', baby! 

In this English teaching podcast I am with Cara Leopold from Leo Listening, talking about how to learn English with TV and Movies. We discuss why TV and Movies can be a fantastic learning tool, and how you can benefit from being entertained while acquiring new language, or getting valuable English listening practice.   We look at some useful vocabulary, and some TV/Movie watching words which are different in The UK and The USA.   Then there are some English learning word games for you to join in with. Can you find the film names from synonyms, or do you know who says the catchphrases? Here's a list of some of the English language TV shows we mention: - Friends - Seinfeld - The US office - The UK Office - The Simpsons - Dad's Army - Red Dwarf - The Big Bang Theory   You can find out more about learning English through watching TV shows and films on Cara's Leo Listening website: https://leo-listening.com/ and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leolistening   And here's more free English teaching content from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/RADEnglish https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5Sr9xEisnzoMoAlzea4ZQ https://www.instagram.com/english_with_rob      

In this brand new Season of episodes in The Academy, Charlie invites Cara from Leo Listening on to the show to talk about a bunch of culturally relevant British movies and to discuss the idea of a Movie Club for English learners. Find out the best way to improve your English with this episode: https://thebritishenglishpodcast.com/blog/s3-e1 Sign up to Charlie's FREE Email Lessons & Newsletter to never miss another episode at pages.thebritishenglishpodcast.com

I've got a guest with me this episode! Cara Leopold of Leo Listening joins me to discuss how she decided to focus on listening (and when), the decisions around picking what she offers students, and her new ventures into working with teachers too. Learn more about Cara: https://leo-listening.com/ Learn more about the Online Teaching Starter Kit: https://lindsaydoeslanguages.com/otsk Learn more about Language Life: https://lindsaydoeslanguages.com/apply Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/lindsaydoeslanguages/ Enjoyed this episode? Leave us a review + tell a friend. Thank you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teachlanguagesonline/message

Cara aide les personnes qui veulent perfectionner leur anglais à mieux comprendre les natifs qui parlent vite. Pour cela, sa méthode préférée c'est d'utiliser des films ou des extraits de vidéos. Elle aide aussi les profs de toutes les langues à intégrer cette pratique dans leurs enseignements. Aujourd'hui dans l'interview, nous avons échangé: sur sa vie en France dans une petite ville de province, sur le fait d'avoir un accent et sur la difficulté de se faire des amis français. La transcription est disponible sur mon site: francais.mypolyglotlife.com Retrouvez Cara à https://leo-listening.com/ Ne manquez pas la suite de l'interview la semaine prochaine. Nous parlerons de comment utiliser les films pour apprendre le français ou une autre langue! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mypolyglotlife/support

About this episode: Special guest Cara Leopold from Leo Listening joins us for the second part of an interview today. Cara is an English listening skills coach who helps adventurous expats and intrepid travellers improve their English listening skills through movies so they can better understand and connect with fast-talking native speakers. Some of the topics we discuss: Cara answers the question “Why do people speak so fast in English?” Recommendations for listening success How watching TV series can help your everyday spoken English...and much more Thanks for listening to You Don't Say?! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review in your podcast app or share it with a friend. Our question for you: What was the last TV series you watched in English and how did you find it? What one word or expression did you learn from it? Share your comments by leaving us a voice message with your name. If you're lucky your message could appear on a future episode. https://anchor.fm/you-dont-say/message Episode Links: To receive Cara's bi-monthly "Chai Latte Letters" in your inbox, download your Mini Movie Guide which will teach you how to understand fast-talking native speakers using your favourite movie: https://mailchi.mp/leo-listening.com/mini-movie-guide Subscribe to Cara's YouTube channel. Those posts about TED Talks: https://leo-listening.com/ted-talks-conversations/ https://leo-listening.com/ted-talks/ https://leo-listening.com/podcast-17-why-you-shouldnt-listen-to-ted-talks/ Connect with us links: New culture and travel quiz Visit our website Follow us on Instagram Join our Facebook group for more English conversation Theme music: Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About this episode: Special guest Cara Leopold from Leo Listening joins us today. Cara is an English listening skills coach who helps adventurous expats and intrepid travellers improve their English listening skills through movies so they can better understand and connect with fast-talking native speakers. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode. Some of the topics we discuss: Cara's experience moving to France from the UK Cara's journey improving her French listening skills through movies and TV series Problems you might have when listening and the reasons why...and much more Thanks for listening to You Don't Say?! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review in your podcast app or share it with a friend. Our question for you: What was the last TV series you watched in English and how difficult or easy did you find it? What one word or expression did you learn from it? Share your comments by leaving us a voice message with your name. If you're lucky your message could appear on a future episode. https://anchor.fm/you-dont-say/message Episode Links: To receive Cara's bi-monthly "Chai Latte Letters" in your inbox, download your Mini Movie Guide which will teach you how to understand fast-talking native speakers using your favourite movie: https://mailchi.mp/leo-listening.com/mini-movie-guide Subscribe to Cara's YouTube channel. Those posts about TED Talks: https://leo-listening.com/ted-talks-conversations/ https://leo-listening.com/ted-talks/ https://leo-listening.com/podcast-17-why-you-shouldnt-listen-to-ted-talks/ Connect with the podcast links: New culture and travel quiz Follow us on Instagram Join our Facebook group for more English conversation Theme music: Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On this week's episode of the English with Kirsty podcast, I have another interview for you with Cara from Leo Listening. In the interview we talk about * >Bridging the gap between what you want to listen to, and actually enjoying listening to things, such as your favourite movies or TV series in English * >Differences between the types of listening materials that are available to language learners; * Why it's sometimes hard for learners to find good listening resources, and what they can do to fix the problem; * Practical listening techniques that you probably didn't learn at school; * How practising your listening skills can also help you to become a better speaker of another language, particularly if you're listening to conversations; * Listening resources for personal development; * Questions to ask yourself so that you can find the best listening resources for you. Here's the show notes page: https://englishwithkirsty.com/podcast/episode178

Ok, so we don't just talk about that, but we do talk about lots of other stuff! AND... this is the first episode of RnR to be available in video format too! 

This is the second half of my conversation with Cara Leopold about the Global Climate Strike and positive solutions to the crisis. We've put together some free resources on my blog at www.conversationswithkate.net/blog. Feel free to share them with your friends, families, and anyone else who would like to learn more and perhaps participate in the Global Climate Strike on September 20th and 27th. All of the podcast lesson guides and transcripts that I've created are available to my Patrons at www.patreon.com/conversationswithkate. You can also sign up for my monthly updates to receive 2-3 new learning resources each month at www.conversationswithkate.net. Learn more about Cara at Leo-Listening.com

Do you love languages, and want to live and learn, create a successful career or travel the world as a multilingual person? This year, let the Women in Language conference show you how! This is one of my FAVOURITE language projects and you'll have SO MUCH FUN with us. Women in Language is a 4-day online event filled with talks presentations from 30+ female language experts who have done amazing things and documented their journey. The conference is open to everyone, regardless of gender identity. Get your ticket at www.womeninlanguage.com In This Episode: "It is by seeing other people like us that we get inspired and that we believe we can do things and there is a space for us" In the podcast you'll hear speakers and guests at the conference talk about the upcoming event, what they're looking forward to, and why it matters that there women in the spotlight. Here's the full schedule they are looking at: Women in Language 2019: ALL the talks! https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9103f3da-a263-4bfe-b5a3-58649ff9b5f7/P_up7Jgi.png Got your ticket yet? If not, here is where you can get one (http://www.womeninlanguage.com) Here are the voices you're hearing on this show: Me! Haha, of course The following 2019 speakers: Shahidah Foster, creator of Black Girls Learn Languages (http://www.blackgirlslearnlanguages.co/) who's back from last year to teach you how to prep for a job in another country Maria Ortega Garcia, an inspiring Spanish tutor (http://mariaortegagarcia.com) who will present about Creative Writing for Rhythm and Intonation Penny Wilson from LingoMama (http://www.lingomama.com), who is doing double duty on our panel about "Languages, Loved Ones and Little Ones" and with her own talk about language travel Plus these veteran Women in Language fans Michele Frolla from the Intrepid Guide (https://www.theintrepidguide.com), a language and travel blog Sara Holmes who runs Language Answers (https://www.languageanswers.com/) Maria Seco, our second Spanish Maria

This week, my guest on the podcast is Cara Leopold, an English teacher who focuses on helping her students enjoy TV and films in English by improving their listening skills. Some of Cara's top tips: Don't mess around with TV and films initially. They're more challenging than many of us like to admit, and it can be disheartening even at B levels to miss big chunks of action because we insist on switching off the subtitles. Instead, stick to curated materials for learners Look for natural speech over scripted speech, actors with a naturalistic delivery who don't mumble in order to sound authentic Try podcasts and interviews, because they deliver natural speech and structured content. If a show comes out regularly and follows a strict formula with set segments, it's going to be easier to understand The biggest mistakes Cara sees language learners make is to treat tv and films like you would in your native language, expecting to kick back and relax for 2 hours. If it's passive consumption you are after, your listening skills will not improve - think quality over quantity. And here is a piece of Cara's philosophy that stood out to me: “Everything works in language learning." Step By Step to Subtitle Freedom Here are the steps Cara recommends so you can improve listening skills and hit that subtitle freedom: Get hold of a text, for example search youtube by subtitles Open the transcript below your YouTube video so you can read it as you move along Find trailers or selected clips of films and TV shows, or choose to watch a show or film in scenes Practice dictation Switch the subtitles on and off as required Repeat things as closely as possible to how the actor is saying them “You have to be able to settle for some imperfection." Special Guest: Cara Leopold.

In this episode, my guest is Cara Leopold, listening specialist at Leo-Listening.com. She helps Advanced English Language Learners who love TV and cinema fall back in love with their favorite films and series by getting subtitle free. In this part of our conversation, we talk about Cara's upbringing in Scotland and how she learned to speak French using immersion at home and abroad. (part 1 of 3) Get transcripts, lesson guides, and behind-the-scenes audio, video, and photos when you join my community on Patreon. www.patreon.com/conversationswithkate Listen to the podcast on my website https://www.conversationswithkate.net/listen-to-the-podcast/ There you can find information on how to listen via Soundcloud, iTunes and Pocketcasts if you’re “on the go." Like my Facebook page. www.facebook.com/conversationswithkate/ Follow me on Instagram. www.instagram.com/conversationskate/

Hello hello and welcome to this May bonus episode all about … accents! We are really excited to introduce our very special guest to you, Cara from Leo Listening. Cara is the perfect addition to the team this month as she is an English teacher who was born in Scotland, moved to England and now lives in France. Your hosts Dan and Jennifer find out all about Cara’s real life experience of accents as well as her insightful advice for you, our English language learners. Enjoy the bonus!

Learn Australian English in this interview episode of the Aussie English podcast where I chat to my mate Cara Leopold from Leo-Listening.com about how to stop using subtitles to watch movies & TV shows.

Learn Australian English in this interview episode of the Aussie English Podcast where I chat to my mate Cara Leopold from Leo-Listening about French vs Australian culture, moving to France, and learning French.

Today I'm going to talk about a guest article that was written for my blog by Cara from Leo Listening. In the article, Cara talks about how you can make listening to English a habit, so it becomes part of your day, rather than something that you have to think about and make sure that you do. You can find further information and the link to Cara's article here: https://englishwithkirsty.com/podcast/episode97

I love listening activities that I can do on my own. I enjoy listening to audio books or podcasts and I don't need other people around me to do these things. If you're someone who is motivated more by social interaction, some of the more traditional ways of improving your listening skills might not seem that appealing. I have good news for you! There are at least 10 ways in which taking part in conversations with teachers, language partners or English-speaking friends can help you to improve your listening skills. Find out about them here, or you can read my guest article on the https://www.leo-listening.com/conversations-forgotten-listening-activity/Leo Listening blog. The show notes page is here: https://englishwithkirsty.com/podcast/episode91

Hi and welcome to the 100th episode of the Language Meanderings podcast. Today on the show I interviewed Cara Leopold of Leo Listening. Cara Leopold is an online listening teacher, helping upper-intermediate to advanced learners finally understand spoken English, particularly the informal conversational kind, no matter the accents involved. Join the Leo Listening list for […]