Welcome to Effortless Language Acquisition Podcast.

Today's title is Podcast.

My first experiment with podcasting has been fairly successful.

However, I've been having a lot of problems with my podcast host, SolidCass, lately.

Turns out they are anything but solid.

At the moment, I'm unable to upload audio and thus unable to publish more podcast episodes.

So I've decided to change my podcast and feed. I've signed up with liberated syndication, which seems to be more reliable.

I'll be changing my podcast feed soon and will hopefully then be up and running.

In addition to changing the host, I'll be making other changes.

One, I will have a separate web page slash blog for the podcast. I'll continue to post them on this blog as well, of course,

but I'll also have another page which will only have the podcast. Nothing else.

Hopefully this will be more convenient for students who are interested

in the podcast, but don't care to wade through and read all my teaching-oriented posts.

Number two, I'll be gradually mixing the content of the podcast to make them more useful to English

language learners. Primarily, this means adding natural, unscripted conversations between native speakers.

I just ordered a small digital voice recorder

and will start carrying it with me everywhere.

I plan to record conversations with my friends,

with waiters, with coworkers, with strangers.

3. In the more distant future, I plan to offer full transcripts and study guides for all podcast audio, especially the natural unscripted

conversations. The study guide will have word for word text of the audio and

also explanations of difficult idioms, phrases, and slang.

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