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

21. Learning English with Podcasts - Advice from a Chinese student at Oxford University

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

Luke Thompson

Pronunciation, Teaching, Learning, Comedy, Language, London, Grammar, Listening, Learn, Speaker, Podcast, Language Learning, Vocabulary, Uk, Accent, Education, British

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2009

⏱️ 26 minutes

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0:00.0

You're listening to Luke's English podcast.

0:03.0

For more information, visit teacher Luke. podomatic.com.

0:08.0

Hello everyone, this is Luke and welcome to Luke's English podcast it's a

0:17.1

Saturday afternoon here in London and the weather is kind of gray today.

0:24.0

There's you know quite a few clouds in the sky.

0:27.0

It's not raining but the sky is gray there's not much blue.

0:32.0

There's a few patches of blue in the sky is gray there's not much blue there's a few patches of blue in the sky the sun

0:36.3

is trying to come out but basically it's quite a gray day today and it's quite hot

0:41.9

and quite humid. So kind of a typical August day really in London.

0:50.0

Hopefully it's not going to rain but you never really know in the UK.

0:55.0

You never really know what the weather is going to do.

0:59.0

I'm planning a podcast about the weather soon so I'll be talking about British

1:05.1

weather and exactly how to describe the weather with lots of vocabulary for

1:10.6

describing different weather conditions. I'll do that

1:13.7

podcast very soon. But recently I met a student from Oxford University and she's Chinese, she's called Vicky, that's her English

1:27.1

name and she's studying a master's degree at Oxford University and And she found me and we had a meeting and she

1:38.6

interviewed me for her university dissertation which she is doing.

1:44.0

And so in the interview, she recorded me

1:49.0

for her dissertation and I recorded her for this podcast. I thought it would be very interesting

1:57.1

for students of English around the world to listen to a conversation between me, a native speaker, and

2:07.6

Vicky who is a speaker of English as a second language.

2:14.0

Now, Vicky's English is good.

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