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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

923. A Rambling Exercise for Fluency ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Late-Winter 2025 โ„๏ธโ˜€๏ธ

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

Pronunciation, Teaching, Learning, Comedy, Language, London, Grammar, Listening, Learn, Speaker, Podcast, Language Learning, Vocabulary, Uk, Accent, Education, British

4.7 โ€ข 1K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 23 February 2025

โฑ๏ธ 81 minutes

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Summary

A rambling episode full of spontaneous speaking from me to you. Topics include; an exercise for you to practise your spoken fluency ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ, the benefits of extensive listening to spontaneous speech ๐ŸŽง, overcoming mental blocks ๐ŸŒณ, the English of my daughter and raising our kids to be bilingual ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ, some reactions to recent episodes ๐Ÿ™‰, some thoughts about upcoming content ๐Ÿ”ฎ, some bird-related idioms ๐Ÿฆ, the phrasal verb "to follow through" including its rude meaning ๐Ÿ’ฉ ...and more! PDF transcript available.

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0:00.0

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0:09.8

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0:14.7

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0:25.8

Thank you. Search HMRC, Help for Hustles. You're listening to Luke's English podcast.

0:28.6

For more information, visit teacher luke.com.

0:31.7

Dot UK.

0:41.2

Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast.

0:43.0

Brand new episode for you.

0:51.6

And this one is a rambling episode, which means that I will be just chatting to you, making it all up as I go along.

0:56.7

I don't really have much planned for the episode. It's not like a lot of other episodes where I carefully prepare everything in advance. This one is sort of unprepared and

1:03.0

spontaneous, which I think is a positive point, actually, because I think there's a lot of

1:10.0

benefits to listening to spontaneous

1:12.4

speech, it's natural, it's authentic, and hopefully it will be engaging to listen to.

1:20.8

So if you are a long-term listener, then you'll know what to expect from rambling episodes.

1:25.7

If you're a brand new listener, well,

1:27.7

just carry on. Keep listening and you can kind of just discover it as it happens. Actually, two

1:35.4

things I want to do at the beginning of this. The first thing is to set a 30 minute timer to remind

1:42.6

myself to drink water. So I'm going to take a water break in 30 minutes. Obviously,

1:48.3

it's important to stay hydrated. You've got to make sure that your body is receiving plenty of

1:55.4

H2O. And also, that is to satisfy those people who watch or listen and comment that I need to stop and drink water

2:07.2

just to give my kidneys a chance. I do, honestly, I do drink plenty of water. I drink water before and

2:15.9

after recordings.

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