#240 Biggest Lessons from Moving Abroad

I-ve been living in Bangkok, Thailand since the beginning of August, so it-s been over 2 months now. This is the longest I-ve spent in one place outside of my home country before. One of our group class students requested an episode sharing my thoughts and experiences after moving here, and I decided to give it a go.In this episode, I-ll be talking about what-s changed here and some big differences I-ve noticed between the UK and Thailand. I-ll be sharing the good and the bad, things I miss and things I prefer here. I-ll also be talking about moving abroad and relocating more generally and will mention some useful vocabulary related to this topic.Show notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast240Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.The Financial PhilosophersWe-re Chris and Danny, come Nerd Out about finance with us!Listen on: Apple Podcasts - SpotifySupport the show

#239 Never Forget English Words Again

Memory is something we-ve covered a few times on the podcast before, but it-s always worth coming back to with more ideas and tips. In this episode, I share advice on how you can stop forgetting English vocabulary, 2 methods of learning new vocabulary that suit all types of learners and personality types, expressions related to memory and forgetting, and at the end I give some advice on general memory and forgetfulness. I think there-s a lot of value packed into this episode so listen carefully and I-m sure you-ll take away something valuable.-Show notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast239Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Tea With TJWhere our love for tea, a deeper understanding of life, and self-improvement intersectListen on: Apple Podcasts - SpotifySupport the show

#238 Level Up English Live - Giving Advice

Every now and then, I invite the members of Level Up English to join me for a chat about different topics. This time, we spoke about giving advice. In the end, only 3 people joined, which was quite a nice casual group. All members gave some amazing advice and also used some really good vocabulary.-I hope you enjoy this episode!In this episode, we cover:Advice on being happyAdvice on getting good sleepAdvice on learning languagesAnd problems we-re facing in lifeShow notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast238Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Support the show

#237 The Power of Groups and Movies with Cara Leopold

Cara Leopold (Leo Listening) joins me once again on the podcast to discuss the benefits of learning English in groups with her experience teaching group classes based around movies, as well as some good movies and TV series she likes to use to practice and teach English.-If you-ve caught this episode in 2023, Cara is relaunching her Movie Club course. You can try it out for one week in September to see if you like it. We talk more about this in the episode tooShow notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast237------------------------------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 clips from high school 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 on September 20th to chat with me and other film lovers about the movie clips.--Join the challenge: https://leolistening.podia.com/back-to-school-movie-challengeCara-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: https://www.pinterest.fr/leolistening/---------------------Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Support the show

#236 Adding 'Up' to Verbs (Part 2)

In this episode, we-ll be talking about some patterns you can remember when adding UP to verbs.Here are some examples: cloud up, clear up, finish up, drink up, break upOne of the Level Up Members recently asked about the difficult part of phrasal verbs where we add -up- to a verb and why we do this. I decided to make an entire episode about it because it-s not an easy thing to get your head around. Part 1 was Episode 224.I decided to stop the episode halfway because 1 hour of listing phrasal verbs might be a tad boring. So let-s finish up the patterns in today-s episode.I will add a complete lesson on Level Up English with a quiz and subtitles to help you understand. If you want to access this as well as join a global learner community to get access to all transcripts, group lessons, and many more courses.Show notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast236Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Support the show

#235 Learn English Fast with Comprehensible Input

I had a great audio question sent in today about learning with comprehensible input. So in this episode, I cover some of the ideas behind the comprehensible input method, and then explore the input hypothesis from Stephen Krashen and how these ideas might benefit your language learning methods.As always, keep in mind we are all different and learn in different ways, but I think a lot of these points will be relevant to most of you. Perhaps you can take something away today that you can implement (add) into your own study routine.-Show notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast235Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Support the show

#234 Steve Kaufmann's Language Learning Advice

Steve Kaufmann is a polyglot who has a good level of proficiency in around 20 languages. Steve is well known for his content online and on his YouTube channel, Lingo Steve. You-ve probably seen him before!-Today he joined me for a really fascinating chat about language learning. I cover some of his recent YouTube videos and ask for tips on some of these topics. If you want to know more, I highly recommend going to his channel for more details.In this episode, we cover:Language learning mistakesThe importance of curiosityThe Intermediate Plataeu-Leaving your comfort zoneIncreasing vocabularyAnd of course moreShow notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast234Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Support the show

#233 Don't Take Yourself So Seriously

On the private podcast last week, I chatted a bit about my experience in China and then ended on the idea of the benefit of being silly in your language learning. I thought it was a really interesting and potentially useful topic for people to hear, so I decided to turn it into a public podcast episode too.In this episode, I-ll be talking about reasons why you shouldn-t take yourself too seriously, and how inserting more silliness into your life can benefit you - both generally and to help your English learning. Show notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast233Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Support the show

#232 Making Big Life Changes

I recently made a huge change in my life and I-m announcing it to everyone in this episode today. I-m going to talk a little bit about this change, why I made it, and some of my feelings about the future. I then talk about change in a more general sense and give you some tips (inspired by Atomic Habits) to help you in life and language learning, as well as some useful expressions related to change.-Show notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast232Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Difficult Conversations PodcastTackling mental health, relationships and taboo topics.Listen on: Apple Podcasts - SpotifySupport the show

#231 Don't Call Me 'Dear'

Do you know how to use the word -dear-? A lot of people get confused with this term, and honestly the answer isn-t as simple as you may think, so let-s look into that today.I-ll cover the ways in which we use this word and why you might not want to say it to strangers.This is a re-share of a video I posted on the English with Michael YouTube channel, so thanks for your patience with me during this busy time!Show notes page-- https://levelupenglish.school/podcast231Sign Up for Free Lessons-- https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English-- https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Support the show