7 May

Podcasts

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Podcasts

Podcasts are a great way to improve your listening skills. They give you an opportunity to get used to a wide variety of accents and speaking styles. And as they’re generally unscripted and simply feature people speaking naturally and spontaneously, you hear the type of language you’re exposed to in real life. There’s just one […]

9 January

Improve your English with TED

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Improve your English with TED

  In case you’re not already familiar with TED talks, these are short talks by people from all over the world on a wide range of topics (no longer limited to the original three areas of Technology, Entertainment, Design). For me it’s precisely this huge variety of topics that makes them so fascinating. Many speakers are […]

3 October

What you can do to become a better listener

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When people come to me for English training it’s almost always because they want to speak English more fluently. Usually they say something like “I understand most of what people say, the problem is answering.” They want to increase their vocabulary, be able to find the right words faster and gain confidence in speaking the […]