#325 At the Hairdresser

I’ll be honest with you—I don’t really enjoy going to the dentist. I think most people feel the same way. It can be a little scary, right? Now imagine you’re not speaking your native language. If you already feel nervous about the dentist, trying to explain everything in English ... Show More

Last time, we talked about false friends—words that look similar in English and your native language, but mean something very different. Get the text on my website: https://speakenglishpodcast.com/351-false-friends Example 1: Actual This one’s a classic false friend. In Spanish, ... Show More

Hi! I want to talk about something that can really help you understand English vocabulary better — especially if you speak a Romance language like Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, or Romanian. These languages all come from Latin — you know, the language spoken by the Romans ... Show More

Listen and make it part of your healthy language diet! Learn 5 today ... Use these French expressions to spice up your French conversation and impress your peers.  Always happy to hear from you if you would like to try and use them and email me: sophie@lingogite.com 

In this English lesson I'll teach you some more simple two word questions that you can use to keep an English conversation going smoothly! I know that sometimes in an English conversation you don't know what to say next. The person you are talking to says something, and ... Show More

Have you learned how to respond in English to someone asking you how something is going? Maybe they've asked how your new job is going, how your new English class is going, or how your trip is going. I wasn't going to make an English lesson today. I was going to just ma ... Show More

In this English lesson I'm going to talk about 5 of the most frustrating parts of learning English. I'll also give a couple pieces of advice that should help you when you encounter these frustrating things. In this English lesson I'll talk a bit about phrasal verbs ... Show More

I'm sure that you know how to emphasize something in English, but have you learned how to de-emphasize a sentence? De-emphasizing is very common in English, and in this English lesson I'll teach you how to do it. You'll hear sentences like, "It is a little bit cold ... Show More

In this episode, Gaelle explains why you can sometimes say “la semaine prochaine” or “la prochaine semaine”. The adjectives “prochain” and “dernier” are trickier than others as they can be placed either before or after the noun and it will change their meaning. So if this subtlet ... Show More

Sometimes in an English conversation you don't know what to say next. The person you are talking to says something, and you're not quite sure how to keep the conversation going. In this English lesson I'll help you learn 5 simple two word English questions that you ... Show More