Hello, happy new year. It's 2025. Can you believe it? 2025? It's crazy, isn't it? Science

fiction stuff. Anyway, in this episode, I'll be talking about learning English with my podcast.

If you're considering listening to a podcast this year to improve your English, then I think

this is an excellent idea, of course. And I'll tell you exactly why during the

episode and exactly how you can do it. So loads of advice and motivation to pump you up for the

year ahead learning English. Yes, you've probably noticed that this episode is quite long compared to

other podcasts, because I just have a habit of talking a lot,

which hopefully is what you wanted anyway when you press play on this episode.

But anyway, I promise that if you just start listening and you follow my words,

then you will find that the time goes by very quickly and before you know it,

you will have listened to the

entire thing, which, by the way, is about 16,000 words in English, all in sentences, all with correct

grammar and pronunciation. All of that English will go directly into your brain and will have an

immensely positive and beneficial effect on your ability

to use this language yourself later. Don't feel you need to listen to the entire thing in one go.

You can just listen to it in stages. If you prefer, just pause and come back later to continue.

There are useful things to learn all the way through the episode, plus some

special things at the end. There's a PDF for this episode, by the way, with a full transcript,

more or less. You can use it to check what you've heard and to note down vocabulary items,

check spelling and do other types of studying. If you look at the

PDF, you'll see some bits of English highlighted in a lurid orange colour. These are just some

bits of vocabulary that you could notice and perhaps try to pick up from the episode. They're all

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