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Espresso English Podcast

Mar 25, 2020

Today I want to answer a question from a student who asked how to pronounce words ending in -ILE, like the word "mobile."

Words with this ending are a little tricky because there’s a pronunciation difference between British and American English. 

I’m from the U.S., so I’m going to teach you the way we say...


Mar 18, 2020

"Time" is one of the most common words in English - but do you know all the different ways you can use the word time?

In today's lesson, you'll learn 16 common collocations with the word TIME, such as: waste time, kill time, it's about time, stall for time

There's also a quiz to help you practice the collocations in...


Mar 11, 2020

This lesson is on one of the topics that’s most requested by my students – it’s all about phrasal verbs with the word “get.” We have get off, get by, get along, get over, get back, and lots more… and some of these have multiple meanings!

These 20 phrasal verbs with "get" are very common in everyday English,...


Mar 4, 2020

If you want to speak fluent English, it's important to learn phrases and expressions - NOT just individual words.

This is especially important when studying idioms.

Why?

Because it's often NOT possible to understand the meaning of the idiom by looking at the individual words... instead, you must learn the meaning of...