806. PERSEVERANCE, POSITIVITY & PRACTICE with Santiago Ruiz de Velasco from Oxford University Press
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Santiago has a top job in the English teaching industry. He is the managing director of English teaching at Oxford University Press. But English is not his first language. He learned it as an adult when he moved to London in his twenties. This conversation explores how he progressed in his English learning and in his career, while dealing with daily challenges and failures in English.
The conclusions are that motivation and positivity are vital, you have to keep going through the difficult times, and you can achieve great things in your career in English even if you're not perfect. This episode should be a boost for the confidence of all English learners! Keep an open mind, keep your eyes on the prize, keep going and your English WILL improve!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, |
| 0:07.2 | visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk. UK. Okay. It's very nice to speak to you. Today on the podcast I have a great guest and a great |
| 0:25.3 | conversation to present to you. All you need to do is listen, keep an open mind and get ready to hear about my guest's experiences. |
| 0:36.0 | There are some great insights and lessons to be learned here about learning a language, in |
| 0:41.0 | this case English, lots of lessons to be learned. |
| 0:43.6 | And I don't just mean lessons involving words, grammar and pronunciation, |
| 0:48.6 | but I'm talking about lessons and insights about how we approach learning a language, |
| 0:54.3 | the motivation that we need to have in order to help us to deal with the challenges |
| 0:59.6 | and the attitude that you have to have if you want to get success in this language and that includes everything even your own definition of success in learning a language. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, that's a lot of stuff to be contained in a conversation. |
| 1:14.0 | So it's quite a fast moving conversation, it's quite enthusiastic. |
| 1:19.0 | So there are lots of tangents, we go from here to here to here but it's a natural conversation which is |
| 1:25.0 | what I like to present to you on this podcast. Who is the guest today? |
| 1:29.6 | Well I'm talking to the Managing Director of the English Language Teaching Division of Oxford University Press. |
| 1:38.0 | His name is Santiago Ruiz de Valesco. |
| 1:42.3 | Let me just say that again. Santiago Ruiz de Valesco, I've probably pronounced his name wrong, but you know I'm not Spanish. |
| 1:50.0 | He's the managing director of the English Language Teaching Division of Oxford University Press. |
| 1:58.0 | Right? Now I don't know if you're aware, but Oxford University Press or OUP is one of the biggest academic publishing companies |
| 2:06.2 | in the UK, in fact worldwide. They're international. They publish a lot of materials for learning English. |
| 2:13.8 | If you've ever studied English with a course book or with a self-study book or maybe online |
| 2:19.1 | in various ways, if you've used any of Oxford's materials online or if you've worked as an English teacher |
| 2:25.6 | yourself the chances are that you've used some materials some books published by Oxford |
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