Podcasts about sometimes english

Several students have messaged me in the past two weeks to tell me that they are experiencing a lot of stress and anxiety in their life. So...let's talk about stress and anxiety here.  These are the books and spiritual teachers that I mention in this episode A new Earth (by Eckhart Tolle) The Power of Now (by Eckhart Tolle)  Michael Singer Gratitude Meditation (by Jessica Heslop on Youtube)  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maverick22/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/maverick22/support

Something very moving happened in one of my group online classes today. I want to share that story with you all, so that you can hopefully find motivation and continue to learn this amazing language we call the English language. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maverick22/message

“First, you said God, then you said Allah. Which one is it?... Allah is God. Allah is Arabic for God in English...Sometimes English-speaking people get tight or scared or crazy when they hear Muslims say Allah...Allah or God, hmmmm...The two words sound so different from one another...My Aunt Tasha would probably faint if she heard me say Allah!... There’s only one God. So Aunt Tasha could chill...” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blisb/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blisb/support

Sometimes English words seem vague to native Chinese speakers.Most of you have learned that there is no direct translation for “yes” and “no” in Chinese. Answers to questions are given by using the verbs involved in the question. The word “available” is similar. There is no Chinese equivalent. In fact, my Chinese tutor told me it was challenging for her to understand the English word “available,” because it seems rather vague and is used in ways that don't seem connected from a Chinese viewpoint.To read more, including Chinese characters and diagrammed translations, go to:Available 有空，沒事，有錢，可以用，有賣，空缺 in Chinese

Sometimes English spelling seems designed to bamboozle. How did we end up with all these inconsistencies, quirky flourishes, and spellings that bear no resemblance to pronunciation? In search of an answer, the editors dig into the history of English spelling - including attempts to reform it - and hint at the secret work they do for spelling bees today. Plus, we check in with the adorable contestants of the Great Australian Spelling Bee TV series, two years on; and Adrik Kemp collects favourite words from the Sydney Story Factory.    Read more about Word for Word at macquariedictionary.com.au/podcast

Here's my method on how to travel while making money online. ►If you find the ideas from the podcast helpful don't forget to hit Subscribe to support the channel ◄ “Want to connect on facebook? Add me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aleksander.vitkin In this podcast I am going to talk about how to make money online while travelling. Why am I qualified to talk about this? I have been travelling for 5 years and I have thought hundreds of others how to do the same. I have been to 35 countries while running a business online and making money online. So, most people think that if you want to travel and make money online you can get jobs locally like bartending and that kind of stuff. Now, here is the problem with that. If you go somewhere, usually you are going to go to Thailand, Spain. In these countries people do not get paid that much money. So, you are not going to be paid that much money, you are going to be kind of a poor backpacker if you decide to do that. And you need to speak whatever local languages. Sometimes English is enough, but usually it is not and you need to speak local language, because you need to get, for example, if you are doing club promotion you have to speak to everyone. Otherwise you do not make that much money. Another solution that other people use is to become an English teacher or in certain language teacher in other countries. This works especially well in South-East Asia. I have a friend Alex. He does this stuff. This works. It is fantastic, but you are kind of stuck in one location, because you get hired by one school. They pay a couple of hundred thousand dollars per month. It is ok. But it is not great. However, I found that the best way to make money online while travelling is to build an online business. You can start with just freelancing. You can go to upwork.com and websites like freelancer.com and apply to online projects and get the project and you get paid for projects when you deliver them. This can be translation if you know two languages for example. Or if you know websites, you can sell websites. If you know Facebook adds, you can sell Facebook adds. You can learn all these things. It is not that hard. It takes a couple of weeks of really concentrated studying to learn it. And then you can become a freelancer basically. As long as you get the people from Upwork on the phone call and then you close sales. That is how everyone does these days. So, freelancing is great and it is a good place to get started, but eventually you want to upgrade and turn it into an actual business, where you are not the only one doing all the work. You can hire people from India, from Philipines and so on. You pay them 5, 8, 3 dollars per hour and they do a lot of the work for you. So, you are not just an employee, doing all of the work managing projects and so on. You have people who deliver the projects, you have people who help you with sales or even close sales. Get people help you manage the projects and whatever else you need. You can outsource just everything these days. You can go to the same websites like Upwork.com to find people to outsource too. Now, this is all great and it works fantastically well. However, you can not run a business and you cannot make money online if you do not have your life handled, like your life situation. If you are a backpacker and you are staying in hostels and you are always travelling every week, that does not work. You cannot run a successful business like that. There is no passive income. You have to spend the majority of your time working, but that is fine, because you are travelling and you can spend a lot of time going around and climbing mountains, going on trips and so on. So what is the solution for the living situations.

Sometimes English learners have trouble understanding naturally spoken English. One of the reasons for this how native English speaker pronounce certain words. Especially in American English, we prefer to have a smooth air flow between words when we speak. Certain sounds, when pronounced as written, cause the air flow between words to stop and so to prevent the stop, we ... Read More

Sometimes English learners have trouble understanding naturally spoken English. One of the reasons for this how native English speaker pronounce certain words. Especially in American English, we prefer to have a smooth air flow between words when we speak. Certain sounds, when pronounced as written, cause the air flow between words to stop and so to prevent the stop, we ... Read More

Hello everybody. Alan here. Thanks for listening to my podcast. www.alanlancs1.podomatic.com Today I want to talk about some of the difficulties with English pronunciation. There are certain letters or combination of letters that are often difficult for people learning English. I want to demonstrate some of these difficulties and ways to help your pronunciation sound more English. Firstly, I must say that I speak with a northern English accent and as such, my English pronunciation is a little bit different to London English or American English. So let’s start with some vowel sounds. A E I O U In English, we cannot just read word and know how it is pronounced. Take the word “right” for example. The “righ” is pronounced like the word “rye” or the “ri” in the word “sterile” So we must always learn the correct pronunciation from teachers, recordings or from dictionaries that use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) So, which are the most common sounds that can often be pronounced differently by people learning English, than the pronunciation used by a native English speaker? This depends on the nationality of the person learning English I think. Many people who speak other European languages sometimes pronounce “e” as “ee” ( as in “veeseet” instead of visit) and “a” as “eh” ( “ehpple” instead of apple) However, sometimes the sound of “e” is “ee” and the sound of “a” is “eh” as in the word “eat” and the word “any”. For those of you who speak European languages, try saying this: “ When I visit my mother, if she has any, she always gives me an apple to eat because she says it does me good to eat fruit” People who speak Chinese (as a native language) often mistake an “l” sound for an “r” so “right” sounds like “light” and sometimes they add another syllable to a word when there isn’t one. As in for example the words “and” which becomes sometimes “and-a” and “is” becomese “is-a” So for those of you listening who are Chinese, try saying this: “I know when I have the right light for reading, it is when I can see the text and the text is clear to see” English vowels are often pronounced as diphthongs which sound like two vowels together Bay for example is spoken like “bay-ee” Day is spoken like “day-ee” Go is spoken like “goh-u” Fine is spoken like “fye-een” Sometimes English people pronounce some words a little different to Americans: “Stupid” (English) “ Stupid” (American) Take care with these sounds: “th” To get this sound (which I think is very difficult) is put the very tip of your tongue touching your top teeth very softly and the allow a little air out and pull your tongue back quickly. For the other “th” sound as in: “the end” for example, just allow your voice to sound at the same time Try saying: “the thing that I think is that their thoughts are thoroughly thought-out at the end” “r” To get the “r” position correct. Curl your tongue back a little and let your tongue go flat as you say a word. Try saying this: “Roger ran after the rabbit and really regretted not reaching it” “w” To get the “w” sound try putting your lips to say “oo” like “food” and as you say the “w” let your jaw slightly drop – but only a little bit. Try saying this: “when I went with my wife to Wales, we wanted to go walking but it was a wet weekend” “v” this is sometimes difficult for Spanish speakers. To get the “v” sound put your top teeth on your bottom lip softly say the “v” and lower your jaw slightly – but only a little bit Try saying this: “vans are very wonderful fun vehicles” I have put a “w” word and an ‘f” word there for you to show you the difference between “v” and”w” Try to keep the rhythm of the speech in a similar way to English peoples’ The way to do this is to listen for the word intonation (stress) on the words and copy them. Without intonation, here is a sentence: “This sentence shows where we put stress on words when we speak” With intonation “This sentence shows where we put stress on words when we speak” Can you hear the difference? Finally, for this podcast, never be afraid to speak a little bit slower, because this gives you more time to say the words and think a little before you say anything. This is very useful when reading out loud. To give you an example, which do you think sounds better? I like to show you how to speak English better, and sometimes it is better to speak a little more slowly to make the language sound clear to listeners. It is fine, no English person should ever criticise you for doing this” So you can try to break up the sentence a little bit…. So, I hope you find this podcast useful for your pronunication. The important thing is never to worry about pronunciation. The most important thing is to be understood. In fact many foreign accents sound nice to English people. Bye for now Be good be happy