Grammar and English tips for kids, beginners and intermediate students. 

Learn English with William

Stories and Questions to help you practice listening and writing skills. 

English Stories & Questions

My story began in London 3 decades ago, but my travels into the teaching world would not take long to begin...

Stories from UK to China

Conversamos con Martha, ella es de Cracovia una ciudad hermosa, llena de magia colonial, arquitectura clásica y cultura maravillosa.

Español con Andres 📣

Conocemos Cracovia-Polonia

I talk about the phenomenon of trying to fit in despite how expensive it can be. 

Random Thoughts

Keeping Up with the Jones

In this episode, Kev Dean explores a bold new approach to OET Speaking preparation—treating roleplay as performance. Drawing on drama pedagogy, clinical communication theory, and AI-enhanced rehearsal tools, Kev shares how medical candidates can rehearse tone, empathy, and genre-specific phrasing to reduce fillers and sound more like real clinicians.

🎭 Highlights include:

Why “Hamlet with a stethoscope” reframes OET as rehearsable dialogue

How drama pedagogy boosts fluency, intonation, and emotional clarity

Using AI-generated audio scripts for shadowing and rehearsal

Replacing “ums” and “ahs” with structured, empathetic phrasing

Building a tonal repertoire: clinical, conversational, and examiner styles

Real examples from Turkish and Ukrainian learners

Whether you're a doctor, nurse, or educator, this episode offers a fresh lens on how performance theory can transform medical English training...
Read the article on LinkedIn...https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinanthonydean_something-new-yet-as-old-as-timeperformance-activity-7385374683753328640-XrI4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAATZ2wQBsScNosriHviq3tl6EgWv7Ey2ga4

Kev's English Podcast

Kep 41: OET Roleplay as Performance: Drama Pedagogy for Medical English Fluency

诗歌 如果你爱我
请你爱我之前先爱你自己
爱我的同时也爱着你自己
你若不爱你自己
你便无法来爱我
这是爱的法则

因为
你不可能给出
你没有的东西
你的爱
只能经由你而流向我

若你是干涸的
我便不能被你滋养
若因滋养我而干涸你
本质上无法成立
因为
剥削你并不能让我得到滋养



日常用语

职业

Key Phrase of the Day:
您有尝试过哪些解决方法吗？
nín yǒu cháng shì guò něi xiē jiě jué fāng fǎ ma ?
Have you tried any solutions yet? 
 
Script: 
客服: 喂，您好。请问有什么可以帮到您吗？
wèi , nín hǎo . qǐng wèn yǒu shén me kě yǐ bāng dào nín ma ?
1. 摄像头: webcam
顾客: 诶，您好。我的电脑摄像头好像坏了。视频时对方看不到我。
éi , nín hǎo . wǒ de diàn nǎo shè xiàng tóu hǎo xiàng huài le . shì pín shí duì fāng kàn bú dào wǒ .
客服: 女士，请问您贵姓？
nǚ shì , qǐng wèn nín guì xìng ?
顾客: 我姓王。
wǒ xìng wáng .
客服: 您好，王女士。我想问一下，您有没有尝试过哪些解决方法？
nín hǎo , wáng nǚ shì . wǒ xiǎng wèn yī xià , nín yǒu méi yǒu cháng shì guò něi xiē jiě jué fāng fǎ ?
 2. 解决方法: solutions
 顾客: 嗯，我尝试过关机重启，还有更新系统，都没有用。
èn , wǒ cháng shì guò guān jī chóng qǐ, hái yǒu gēng xīn xì tǒng , dōu méi yǒu yòng .
 3. 关机重启: restart a computer 
 4. 更新系统: update a system
客服: 哦，都没用。是这样，王女士。我现在怀疑可能是您的硬件出了问题。我建议您去当地的客服中心，让他们检查一下。
ò , dōu méi yòng . shì zhè yàng , wáng nǚ shì . wǒ xiàn zài huái yí kě néng shì nín de yìng jiàn chū le wèn tí . wǒ jiàn yì nín qù dāng dì de kè fú zhōng xīn , ràng tā men jiǎn chá yī xià .
 5. 怀疑: suspect
 6. 硬件: hardware
 7. 客服中心: service center 
 8. 检查一下: check it out

Source: YMC Learn Chinese on YouTube


Learn Chinese with Lucky Yancy

Avoid Saying this in Chinese! (Business Chinese B1)

What do you like to do in your free time? Cosa ti piace fare nel tempo libero?
Nell'episodio di oggi parliamo di alcune parole del tempo libero. In today's episode we are going to learn a few words about free time.

Buon ascolto!

*** Useful links ***

Link to my Telegram channel - https://t.me/cocaiitaliano

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Have a private lesson with me - https://teach.italki.com/teacher/6679324

3 minutes Italian

Il tempo libero - 3 minutes Italian

Acompáñanos en este nuevo viaje sobre el capacitismo, un concepto emergente pero importante para entender las luchas de la población con discapacidad. Tendremos a una invitada super especial quien nos compartirá sus experiencias y además nos explicará el concepto clave de esta nueva entrega. 
Por aquí les dejo el documento con el artículo y la transcripción de la entrevista: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L7oSIVvrFTZ7V-CqD8T8Yh-6uCqBfW-W0_UX0V4ozz4/edit?usp=sharing

We really hope you enjoy it!

Voces Difusora

El capacitismo: opresión y marginación a la diversidad funcional. 

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
〈#142〉12月3日土曜日　天気/くもり　気温/2℃ 


大倉山/おおくらやま
・ドローンと花火と音楽のショーに行ってきた
・北海道でははじめて
・2.3日前から、雪も降ってきてとても寒かった
・あたたかい服を着たけど、足のつま先が冷たかった
・本当にすごかった！
・たくさんのドローンが一緒に動いて、いろいろな光がきれいだった
・感動で涙が少し出た


［単語］
ドローン/どろーん…空を飛ぶ小さなもの。飛行機とは形が違う。
花火/はなび…火をつけて、空に上げて、光や色を楽しむもの。
ショー/しょー…たくさんの人を楽しませるためのもの
つま先/つまさき…足の一番前の指
感動/かんどう…心が動くこと
涙/なみだ…目から出る水

レッスン待ってます♪
