I discuss English for travel, for work, & for families settling into the USA. I live in Florida, & love going to the beach, swimming, & learning languages. 

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English from the Beach

Episode 2 of the Genius language school podcast featuring my close friend Louis talking about moving to another country

Introduction
Idiom of the day + two things I am grateful for
Conversation
Language analysis
Can you spot any mistakes we made during the conversation? 

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GLS podcast (With Marvin) 

Moving Country

This is a very useful phrase if you want to ask for somebody's patience.
Does it have anything to do with bears, though? Listen and find out.

Brentoni's English Podcast

050 - bear with me

こんにちは。
先日、初めて中国の寝台列車に乗って上海旅行に行きました。
その体験についてちょっとお話ししています。
みなさんの国の寝台列車はどうですか？
とっても気になります。

ゆるっと日本語ラジオ＠中国

中国の寝台列車に乗った話。

Listen to this episode about the phrase PUSHING THE ENVELOPE and learn what "the envelope" really means.

042 - pushing the envelope

Hoy les presento un Top 10 de las mejores playas mexicanas. ¡Saludos!

Spanish with Jania

Top 10: Best Mexican Beaches

vamos a revisar estos verbos.
Ser-fui
Ir-fui
Estar-estuve
Hacer-hice
Decir-dije

Hh Español con Katy para nivel B1-B2. 

Pasado simple o preterito indefinido 5 verbos irregulares. 

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Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English podcast. My name is Carl. Today I want to talk about breaking the ice. So breaking the ice means meeting someone new that you don't know for the first time. So when you go to a party or you go to a new workplace or a new school, you're always going to have the occasion where you need to meet people for the very first time.


And sometimes this can be awkward and you can feel embarrassed about talking to someone if you don't know them and they don't know you and you're not friends yet. So I just wanted to talk really briefly about some advice that I have for you to meet people for the first time in any environment. And this is especially true if you are not a native speaker of their language.


So the first tip I have is to simply smile. Make your face look friendly and welcoming and give eye contact to the person that you want to talk to. It sounds really simple and obvious, but if you missed this step um, you know, this is a very important step and this is half the battle. So make sure that you look approachable yourself and you smile And you might even make a slight hand gesture, like, uh, a mini wave of some sort.  And the next thing is to simply say hello.


You don't have to come up with any kind of clever saying or pick up line or joke just simply saying hello. And you can see if the other person is interested in having a conversation with you.


And another tip is that you can be observant of what the person looks like or what clothes they're wearing and use that as a clue um, to tell you about who they are. For example, if the person is wearing very nice running shoes you kind of have the idea that this person likes to run or this person may be a runner or if you notice that the person has, um, cauliflower ears, you know, scarred ears from wrestling OK, this guy is probably a fighter. (please subscribe to the Streetwise English Podcast)





Streetwise English

SWE17 How to Break the Ice?

Last night, I watched the interview of Vivian Tu, a Wallstreet trader.
She spoke about the importance of diversifying your assets, especially if you are planning to set up a retirement fund.