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ποΈ 27 May 2025
β±οΈ 103 minutes
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It's my birthday π₯³ so join me for a relaxed and light-hearted ramble, first with some comments about recent episodes and other podcast housekeeping, and then a series of talking points with the Spinning Wheel of Random Questions βΈοΈ including bits about how being an English teacher affects my social interactions π¬, the infamous ice-cream wars of Ice-Cream Island ποΈ, leading an army of English learners into battle on the back of an Elephant π, the title of my (hypothetical) autobiography π, and my age revealed at the end of the episode. Full transcript available π.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit |
0:07.7 | teacher luke.com.com.com. |
0:14.9 | Hello and welcome back to my podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. |
0:22.6 | So here we are. We've started. The English is flowing. The words are happening. They're all going in. You're listening to them. And if you keep going, if you listen for the whole episode, then, oh, it could be thousands, |
0:39.4 | thousands of words that will have entered your brain via my mouth and the internet, and then |
0:45.6 | the headphones or speakers that you're using, and then into your brain through your ears. |
0:51.9 | You understand the process, don't you? Of course you do. But anyway, stick with me |
0:56.5 | for as long as you like or as long as you can. And yes, you will find that thousands of English |
1:02.9 | words, phrases and sentences will have gone into your head by the time you stop listening. |
1:10.8 | And that is bound to be good for your |
1:13.4 | English this is the idea a lot of those words will stick right a lot of them will stick a lot of |
1:19.7 | them will stay there and this is how you keep English this is part of how you keep English a living |
1:27.2 | thing a going concern with you. |
1:31.7 | Obviously, you've got to practice speaking it, using it too, but a basic base level. |
1:37.9 | Yes, you've got to feed on the English as much as you can. |
1:40.6 | And that's kind of what this podcast is all about. |
1:43.5 | This is here to help you get |
1:45.2 | English into your life listening, the spoken word, spoken English. Yeah, okay, hi, thanks for choosing |
1:53.4 | my podcast today. And I'm feeling good today. It's a good day for me because it's my birthday |
1:59.6 | today. Yay! If I had for me because it's my birthday today. Yay. |
2:08.0 | If I had one of those party blower things, you know those things that, you know exactly what I mean. |
2:16.9 | When it's your birthday, you're going to blow into this plastic tube, which has got a bit of rolled up paper attached to the end of it. Actually, I don't really know what that's called |
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