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Espresso English Podcast

Aug 31, 2022

A collocation is two or more words that go together naturally.

Learning collocations is essential for making your English sound fluent and natural!

Today we'll learn 50 English collocations with the words big, great, large, deep, strong, and heavy. These words all seem rather similar, but they are used in DIFFERENT...


Aug 24, 2022

Are you ready to practice your pronunciation with some longer words?

The ones we’ll practice today all have 5 syllables – like the word vocabulary: vo-CA-bu-la-ry

I’ll say each word twice – once a little more slowly with some separation between the syllables, and then once at normal speed. Repeat after me both...


Aug 17, 2022

When writing letters and e-mails in business English, it's really important to avoid mistakes - which can make your writing look unprofessional.

Today you'll learn about 10 common mistakes in business English writing. I'll explain why they are wrong and how to correct them.

If you want to learn the phrases that native...


Aug 10, 2022

Today we’re going to do a vocabulary with pictures lesson to help you learn 20 words for shapes in English, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional ones.

You’ll learn both the noun form (the name of the shape itself) and the adjective form (how to describe something else with this shape) – in some cases those...