Chatterbox #319 – Interview with Jesús Florez

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Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Episode description:
In this episode, Andrew interviews Jesús Florez, a Culips listener originally from Colombia. Jesús talks about his journey of becoming a highly proficient English speaker with an American-like accent. He discusses his background story of meeting his wife online and moving from Colombia to the United States. He tells Andrew all about the intensive work he did to improve his pronunciation and the resources he used to achieve fluency, plus he shares some valuable tips with English learners! If you want to know how to become a fluent English speaker and perfect your pronunciation, this episode is for you!

What you'll learn in this episode:

* Effective strategies for mastering an American-like accent.
* The importance of input (listening) in working on pronunciation.
* Helpful tips for improving pronunciation in a foreign language.
* Benefits of learning from both native and non-native English teachers.
* The importance of the visual aspect of pronunciation.

How this episode will help improve your English:

* Expand your vocabulary related to language learning
* Improve listening skills by following a natural unscripted conversation.
* Learn useful expressions like "get [something] off the ground" and "take precedence".
* Improve speaking by discussing your own language learning journey using the study guide questions.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and this is the Kuleps English podcast.
0:07.0	Hello then. Hello there everyone it's Andrew here and you are tuned into Chatterbox
0:18.9	the Q-Leb series for Intermediate to Advanced English learners that features conversations
0:24.8	about fascinating topics. Today's episode is really special because it
0:30.0	features an interview with a special guest, Heesus Flores. Now Heesus is a really
0:36.0	interesting guy. He learned English to an extremely high level and has a very
0:41.6	very natural almost American sounding accent.
0:45.0	He's also a wonderful English teacher and a Kulus member on top of that.
0:50.0	So in our interview, we talk about a lot of things but really we focus on his English learning
0:56.1	journey and how he became such a fluent speaker with a clear accent. And I think probably a lot of you out there want to achieve what
1:04.9	he'sus has achieved. You want to be a fluent English speaker and you want to speak
1:09.5	with a clear easy to understand accent. So I hope you will enjoy this conversation that I had with
1:15.0	He Zeus and find it inspiring and motivational. I know that the conversation really
1:20.7	pumped me up and I don't know about you but me personally whenever I talk conversation really and makes me want to study Korean, my second language, even more.
1:34.3	So I got to say thanks to Hezus for firing me up and inspiring me, and I hope this conversation
1:39.7	will have the same effect on you as well. Now if you'd like to get the interactive transcript
1:45.9	and the study guide for this episode which is an amazing study tool and will
1:50.6	really help you to get the most out of learning with this episode,
1:54.0	then just visit our website, QLips.com. You can sign up there and become a
1:58.6	QLips member and when you're a member you'll get the access to the
2:02.0	interactive transcripts and the study
2:03.9	guides for all of our episodes plus a whole lot of other bonus content. You can
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