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Espresso English Podcast

Aug 29, 2018

In today’s lesson I’m going to show you six mistakes that real students of mine have made – and you might be making, too! The purpose of this lesson is not to make you feel bad about those mistakes, but instead to learn from them.

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Aug 22, 2018

William Shakespeare was a poet and playwright who lived in the 16th century. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of the English language. You might know him as the author of the famous “Romeo and Juliet.”

Many of the English idioms we use to this day were invented or popularized by...


Aug 15, 2018

Today I want to teach you the correct way to say four words that I often hear students mispronouncing or confusing: recipe, receipt, debt, and debit.

Listen and repeat to practice your pronunciation, so that you can be confident you're pronouncing these words correctly and not mixing them up!

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Aug 8, 2018

Today we’re going to take a closer look at the word TEST – specifically the collocations (common combinations of words) that are often used with “test.”

Learning collocations like these can make it easier for you to put together phrases and sentences in English.

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Aug 1, 2018

Have you noticed that when you listen to informal English conversations, you hear some expressions that you can't understand?

Today I’m going to teach you three casual conversational expressions, what they mean, and how to use them:

  • quite a bit
  • might as well
  • just my luck!

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