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Hello and welcome to Luke's English podcast, the Podcast for Learners of English.

This is the very first podcast that I've done and it will be the first of many more podcasts that you'll be able to download and listen to in the future.

So because this is the first podcast, it's a bit short, it's shorter than the other ones will be.

And in this podcast, basically, I'm going to introduce myself to you

so that you can get to know me a little bit.

And then I'm going to tell you about what is going to happen

in other podcasts in the future.

Let's see.

First of all, my name's Luke, Luke Thompson. Now the name Luke

can be a little bit difficult for learners of English to pronounce sometimes and I meet lots of people who can't

pronounce my name and they they call me look or maybe luck but it's not look or luck, it's Luke, of course.

And let's see, I live in London.

I work as an English teacher in a English language school in West London and I've been teaching English for about eight years now.

I first started teaching in Japan and I lived in Japan for two years in an area near Tokyo called

Kanagawa Prefecture and I taught English there for two years and it was really great I had a

really good time it was a very interesting experience for me and I've got lots of

interesting stories to tell about my time in Japan.

So I taught there for two years and then I came back to London and I've been teaching English

in London for about six years now.

I've worked in a few different schools. I used to work in a school near

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