Episodes
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About 1% of the English language is Dutch including some very common words. In this episode Jon and Gideon delve into the history of the Dutch in English. You'll also learn some idioms with "Dutch" in them.
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Humour is arguably the most difficult thing for a non-native speaker to understand. There is so much word play and cultural references. In this episode we look at a few jokes and dissect them explaining why they are funny (or not)
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Sometimes in life you have to criticize someone you know. However, you want to do this in a friendly, diplomatic way that doesn't cause offence and results in the behavioral change you desire. In this video we discuss the ways to do this and you'll learn lots of vocabulary and expressions too.
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In this episode Gideon and Jon discuss London. The city, The City and the London accents including Cockney. If you're planning to visit London you'll get some tips on places to go, a little bit of history and how to speak like a Londoner.
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Today Jon and Gideon discuss the RP accent. That's the standard British accent and probably the one you're learning if you're studying British English. What does it mean? Who speaks it? And what's the difference between this and Oxford English or The Queens' English or BBC English. All will be revealed.
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2020 was a difficult year due to the pandemic. However, linguistically it was quite rich giving us a large number of interesting new words. It doesn't stop with Covid though, social media and technology also provided us with many new ways of expression.
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Effect vs affect, lay vs lie, raise vs rise, disinterested vs uninterested.....if you have doubts about confusing words in English then all will be explained in this podast with Gideon and John.
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What do Ernest Hemmingway, Jane Austen, Tony Blair and Einstein have in common? They were all bad spellers. Why can't English spelling be phonetic like other languages? Why are words spelt as they are? Is anybody a good speller? Am I a good speller? In this episode I'm joined once again by Jon to discuss the intricacies of English and American spelling.
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In this episode we discuss English plurals. It can get pretty complicated. There are words with 2,3 or even 4 plurals. We will delve into some of the most interesting stories with Gideon and Jon (from English with Monty).
Check out Jon's podcast here
https://montyenglish.podbean.com/
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Booze is an informal word for alcoholic drinks. In this podcast we look at the history some of the most popular drinks and how they relate to the English language. I'm joined in this podcast by Jack Treacher (a wrecker of mead benches), an English teacher (from Scotland) currently teaching in Paris.
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Everything you wanted to know about British cuisine its dishes their origins and, most importantly what they taste like. A culinary journey that includes marmite, chicken tikka masala, Christmas pudding, haggis and more...
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The history of tea, tea idioms, how to make a good cup of tea, what did George Orwell say, The opium wars and going under cover in China. All this in the latest podcast with John
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All about (mostly) English proverbs with a smattering or of sayings from far flung places such as Russia, China and Japan.
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Why do almost all coffee terms in English come from Italian? We discuss some English equivalents. We take a look at the history of coffee, colloquial words and coffee idioms.
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Me and Jon (or is it Jon and I?) look at 'grammatical mistakes' made by native English speakers but are they really grammatical mistakes? We also catch up with language news with a discussion about Johnny Depp's tattoo.
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