Improve your English listening skills with our expert tips and strategies. Discover how to enhance your comprehension, tackle different accents, and become a confident listener in just a few minutes a day.

Zia English Corner

Boost Your English Skills: Effective Tips for Better Listening

以后(yǐ hòu) and 后来 (hòu lái) both include 后 this character , it means behind, in English they both could be translated as “later”, you can say they are the same in meaning, but not the usages, which make the 2 words very different, basically 后来 can only use in a past tense but 以后 can use in past or future tense, in this episode I will show you 5 example sentence to help you understand better

Learn Chinese with Jen

以后、后来

Arabic for life

How do say What in Arabic? ما  or ماذا ?

Una colombiana y un peruano se unen para compartir contigo sus estilos de vida y cultura a través de conversaciones naturales. Prepárate para conocer un poco más sobre Latinoamérica y sus maravillosos lugares turísticos, sus antiguas tradiciones, sus exquisitos sabores, su música variada y su gente increíblemente cálida. 

Queremos ayudarte a ganar más confianza y sonar con más naturalidad en español, por eso te invitamos a ser parte de nuestras conversaciones para que mejores tu comprensión auditiva, aumentes tu vocabulario, eleves tu fluidez y aprendas algo nuevo en cada episodio.

¡Conócenos! 
📍 María: https://linktr.ee/spanishwithmariap
📍 Pablo: https://linktr.ee/pabloalejos 

Maria & Pablo Spanish

Maria & Pablo Spanish - Tráiler🎙

In this podcast episode, I teach you five idioms you can use to describe people

Energize your English

#1 - The Spring Chicken Gold Digger

✅ Practice your listening skills with the stories from my everyday life. 

✅You'll find the whole transcription as well as translation into English and Russian in the special GoogleDoc I created for you
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WrRMa-XQjG9K0Du4irYNNljd-n5ceo2IutqgooWUyNE/edit?usp=sharing 

❓ Et toi, c'est quoi la dernière chose que t'as annulée ?

Here are some notes on grammar and vocabulary:
*j’ai dû - passé composé du verbe devoir - I had to // мне пришлось 
*en extérieur - outside, outdoors // на свежем воздухе 
*depuis hier - since yesterday // со вчерашнего дня 
*je me demandais - imparfait du verbe se demander - I was wondering // я думала 
*y - there // там, туда 
*plein de choses - familier - lots of things // куча всего 
*le boulot - familier - job, work // работа 
*aprèm = après-midi
*si j’étais allée - plus que parfait - if I had gone // если бы я пошла 
*je n’aurais pas eu - conditionnel passé - I wouldn’t have had time  // у меня не было бы 
*du coup - familier - so // и поэтому 
*j’aurais dû organiser - conditionnel passé - I should have organized // я должна была бы планировать 
*on ne sait pas bien - you don't know how // ты не умеешь 
*c’est quoi - what is ? // какой 

👍If the podcast was useful and taught you something. 
🗨Contact me if you want to improve your speaking skills and practice your French.


En français avec Victoria

🇫🇷 1 minute in slow French. 1. J'ai annulé mon rendez-vous. 

Have thought about only focusing on what's essential? Does it seem to you as a good strategy to save time and achieve the skills that you need the most?

In this episode, I talk about both the benefits and drawbacks of essentialism as an approach to learning a language.


Rethinking Language Learning

Essentialism 

MARK: Excuse me. Could you tell me where the library is?
NANCY: Yes, it’s that way. You go three blocks to Washington Street, 
then turn right. It’s on the corner, across from the bank.
MARK: Thanks! I’ve only been in town a few days, so I really don’t 
know my way around yet.
NANCY: Oh, I know how you feel. We moved here a year ago, and 
I still don’t know where everything is!



LANGUAGE NOTES
• Could you tell me … is slightly more polite than “Can you tell me …?”
• Could you tell me where the library is? Notice that “library” is stressed here because 
it is the word with the important information. This is an indirect question, so the subject 
(the library) comes before the verb (is). The word order is reversed in a direct question 
(Where is the library?).
• Yes, it’s that way. Notice the stress on “that.” The speaker is pointing in a certain 
direction and wants to emphasize that direction.
• I know how you feel is a way of saying “I understand.” Notice the emphasis on “feel.” 
The speaker wants to show empathy and understanding.
• I still don’t know where everything is! Notice the word order of where “everything 
is.” The subject (everything) comes before the verb (is). This word order is different from 
the direct question (Where is everything?)

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 12: Asking for directions

Hoy vamos a aprender cómo expresar emociones y describir características usando adjetivos en español. 