14. English Mania / British & American Pronunciation

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2009

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This full length podcast is about international English and pronunciation differences between American and British English. It includes audio from a TED Talk by Jay Walker https://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_the_world_s_english_mania

For a transcript, vocabulary notes and a video for this podcast, click here to visit Luke's website. http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/episode-10-british-and-american-pronunciation/

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke.
0:05.9	Podomatic.com.
0:08.8	Hello everybody and thank you for listening to the podcast. this is Luke.
0:14.0	Hello to all of the listeners and subscribers
0:18.0	that I have all around the world.
0:20.0	It's great that you're still listening to my podcast.
0:25.0	Thank you for not giving up.
0:27.0	I appreciate it very much.
0:29.0	Now, actually I'm getting more and more listeners all the time which is quite interesting and since I
0:35.6	set up a YouTube video site I'm getting even more people listening and watching my videos, which is fantastic.
0:46.3	In today's podcast, we're going to listen to a short presentation by successful American businessman called Jay Walker and he's going to be talking
1:01.7	about English as an international language and English
1:07.1	mania. So we'll listen to that and then in the language section of the podcast, I'm going to be explaining and talking about the differences between British English pronunciation and American English pronunciation.
1:24.3	So I think in general probably a very useful and very interesting podcast for you today.
1:31.3	So you can look forward to listening to the whole thing. This is a full length
1:35.7	podcast today. This isn't a short version. So this is going to be a full length one,
1:40.7	so lots and lots of podcast fun for you to enjoy today.
1:47.0	Right so first of all I'd just like to say hello to the people who have sent me messages. I've had lots of
1:58.6	positive responses to the video which I put on my YouTube site.
2:05.0	Lots of people have said that they really enjoyed it,
2:08.0	that they thought it was very useful.
2:10.0	Even my friends who aren't learning English.
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