What do you call a segment of an orange? These juicy pieces of fruit go by lots of different names, including section, wedge, and carpel. But they’re also called pegs or even pigs! The stringy parts of a banana also have a surprising name. Also, we need a word to describe that productive period of wakefulness in the middle of the night before falling back in ... Show More
Oct 13
Mittens in Moonlight (Rebroadcast) - 13 October 2025
Need a slang term that can replace just about any noun? Try chumpie. If you're from Philadelphia, you may already know this handy placeholder word. And there's Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan, and . . . The Bronx? Why do we add the definite article to the name of that ... Show More
53m 45s
Oct 6
Diamond Dust (Rebroadcast) - 6 October 2025
Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs -- a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic. And a mom says her son is dating someone who's non-binary. She supports their relationship, but still struggles to use their prefer ... Show More
51m 45s
Apr 2024
Your English Five a Day #23.1
E229: 🎙️ Welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast with me, your host, Anna! Tune in to Week 23, Day 1 of Your English Five a Day, where we dive deep into five pieces of vocabulary each weekday to boost your active English vocabulary.
🌟 Today's episode kicks off with the ve ... Show More
21m 11s
May 2024
Your English Five a Day #28.3
E266: 🎙️ Welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast with me, your host, Anna. Join us for Week 28, Day Three of Your English Five a Day, where we delve into five vocabulary items each weekday to enrich your language skills. 😴 Come with me to the land of nod in today's episode ... Show More
14m 48s
Jul 2022
Mate! You dropped the 'T'!
A podcast for English learners! Improve your listening skills, practice your pronunciation, learn new vocabulary!
This episode, I'm chatting with Lucy! We chatted about not pronouncing, or “dropping”, the letter ‘t’, Cockney Rhyming Slang, and your mirror neurons ... Show More
20m 37s
Feb 2024
Your English Five a Day #16.2
E181: 🎙️ Welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast with Anna! Join us for Week 16, Day 2 of Your English Five a Day, where we dive into enriching your vocabulary with five new words or phrases each weekday. 🔥 Today's lesson begins with the noun "wear and tear", and then we e ... Show More
14m 6s
Feb 2022
#271 20 Clever Word Combinations in English you Should Add to your Vocabulary (Brunch, Staycation and MORE)
It's become very popular and trendy to combine words in English in recent years, but this can leave learners feeling pretty confused and conversations, or when watching TV series movies and listening to podcasts. These combinations of words happen when one or both of the words is ... Show More
37m 59s