Hello everybody, welcome back to the podcast. It's podcast time again, it's

podcast o'clock, here's a new episode, this one's all about my trip to Japan.

Before we get started, let me just let you know that this episode is sponsored by Spoken, which is that service that gives you English lessons with a real teacher on your phone using messaging apps.

And actually I just want to give on your phone using messaging apps.

And actually I just want to give you at this point a testimony about spoken.

This is something that was sent to me by a listener to the podcast who tried out spoken and so this is a quick testimony about

spoken this will take a couple of minutes but I would just like to give you an

idea of what happens in a typical spoken lesson. I try to be quite careful about the sponsors

that I have on this show and I want to show you that spoken is a real service that could

be genuinely useful to you. you can take it or leave it

recently I got another message from one of my listeners explaining what happened in her

first lesson with spoken and generally it sounds positive so here is her report and it'll just

take a couple of minutes all right so it goes like this hi Luke as I told you yesterday on

Facebook I'm going to try and explain my experience of my first free lesson with

spoken so here I go first of all we use telegram although you can use other kinds of

messenger apps for example we chat We Chat or What's App. To start, Henry, my tutor, introduced

himself by text and also with a voice message. It was a bit strange speaking with someone without knowing him and without seeing each other.

Plus he spoke quite quickly and I wasn't ready for that.

But the fact that I couldn't prepare myself made it so spontaneous and challenging and I think this

will make me improve faster.

Anyway, I told him about that and he slowed down a bit and started with the lesson.

Everything was going fine.

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