Jamie Shavdia (www.jamieshavdia.co.uk) and Martin Goodson (www.thezengateway.com) discuss the hugely popular book ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle. In this podcast they discuss where this book sits in the development of contemporary spirituality and psychotherapeutic treatments by introducing the present moment as a psychological medicine for ma…

What is emotional intelligence and how does it work in a therapeutic practice? Is there an overlap with Buddhist practice and understanding of the human condition? What are the factors that aid its development and what are the obstacles that prevent it arising? Jamie and Martin return to discuss this hot topic in the series Transcending Mindfulness…

A podcast exploring the depths of consciousness ,spirituality and psychology. This episode explores how places affect consciousness and ranges from a discussions around psychogeograpy to holy and sacred sites and how these can have a transformative effect on experience and psychology. Jamie Shavdia (www.jamieshavdia.com) and Martin Goodson (thezeng…

This talk was given at the Kettering Buddhist Society on Monday 17th June 2024 to commemorate the memorial anniversary of Soko Morinaga Roshi.Por Martin Goodson

Sarah tells the origin story of her YouTube Channel (reading series), where she started out reading out loud a book in Italian. At the time she started reading on YouTube, she had only been studying Italian for 2 months! First Video: Reading in Italian until I'm Fluent of the Reading in Italian Series The Book Sarah is reading out in her series: Co…

Bob talks about his language learning methods and how he ended up in Argentina to learn Spanish. He has been tracking his language learning progress in form of videos in which he speaks in Spanish. Video Version. Some of the topics we cover: Why Argentina? What is Comprehensible Method? Messi Inspiration for Making Language Update Videos Watching A…

India is a very enthusiastic learner of German from Ireland. She tells us about her language journey in which she mainly used the immersion approach to become fluent in German. The most important part of this whole method of immersion learning is obviosly your immersion. You absolutely need to have fun! India watched a lot of TV series, movies, lis…

This is part 1 of 2. Antonello Zanini from Italy is quite an inspiration to me. He is a software engineer and technical writer and is a succesful writer on Medium. Spreading knowledge through writing is his mission Daniel and Antonello discuss the importance of building a writing habit in order to improve your English writing skills (and other skil…

In the second part of our chat with Cara Leopold. (Link to first part), we discuss the movie Groundhog Day. The episode is meant to be like a Movie Club. Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English. Back-to-S…

Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English. From September 13th-20th Cara is organising the Back-to-School Movie Challenge, a 1-week taste of what it's like to be in a movie club. By watching and discussing …

Martin Johnston loves to teach English through personal stories (storytelling) and through non conventional methods. It's great to learn from him and his podcast. He really knows a thing or two about learning (teaching) a language, especially British English. His "unfiltered" podcast (Rock N'Roll English, first episode aired in 2016) with real life…

Video version of this podcast. You'll find the link to Sheila's Podcast (All About You Podcast) here: https://open.spotify.com/show/38xZM7ID8vP1aJR5KuFrQS?si=eaed93c8d9004870 All About You Podcast on YouTube. The Vocab Man Podcast: ▶ 113 To Be Off The Hook (Ft. Lingo Junkie) | SpreakerPor Sheila West, Daniel Goodson

Christina's Language Journey Christina has been learning many languages such as Latin Spanish 🇪🇸 Finnish 🇫🇮 Russian 🇷🇺 Turkish 🇹🇷 Catalan Ancient Greek 🏛️ French 🇫🇷 Italian 🇮🇹 Albanian 🇦🇱 Sign language 🤟 Swahili 🇰🇪 In this interview, you'll learn about how Christina learn these languages. We also talk about - dialects, twitter for language learning…

Welcome to my inspirational language learning podcast. Where I interview other language lovers. Currently, I strive to enhance my Italian skills. One podcast that has become my go-to resource is "3' Grezzi" [grezzi means raw, unedited] by Cristina Marras. Join me in this episode as I sit down with Cristina, the talented host of "3' Grezzi," a very …

How Max From Argentina Overcame His Struggles and Became an English Teacher 🇦🇷 Feeling stuck in your language learning journey? Don't worry and never give up! In this episode, we share Max's language learning story and how he became an English teacher, despite struggling at first. Table of Contents: Bumpy start (0:00) Paralyzing fear of speaking En…

Asish Dutta: The Super Learner! Asish is a determined language learner who is dedicated to improving his English skills by taking one-on-one online lessons with different teachers. At the same time, he uploads all of his sessions on his YouTube channel so that other learners can learn with him. We call that a win-win-situation. Recently, one of his…

Quit your day job for your English dream! Nyssa's son helped her to start learning English again and she has come to enjoy and even love it! In this episode you'll learn more about Nyssa's journey, not only how she improved her English in such a short time, but also how she helps other English learners improve their English. 🚀 Nyssa has many plans …

Personal storytelling can be used to improve language skills. Interview with Fabio Cerpelloni. YouTube version On the previous episode 121, we learned from Lucia that we can learn through listening to other personal stories. "Everyone has a story to tell". On this episode (122) it's all about telling your own stories in order to improve in your tar…

Lucia from Brazil was having self-doubts about her English. Not even 2 years later, she interviewed more than 250 guests on the Relatable Voice Podcast (of course in English)! Various newspapers wrote about her. "The Star Podcaster: Lucia Matuonto" (New York Today) According to Listennotes.com her podcast is among the 0.5 % most popular podcasts*. …

7 brave language learners accepted the challenge to do 3000 repetitions in one month in the October 2022 Glossika Challenge. Glossika is an AI based app/website. (Leran more about Glossika on episode 119) This is the video teaser. Don't forget to CHECK OUT #GlossikaChallenge on Twitter. The 7 brave participants are: Victoria Heidi (twitter:@LoveJoy…

Ep. 119 is meant to be the intro to the Glossika Challenge which is going to be covered on ep. 120. Kenny from somethingpolyglot.com is explaining Glossika and how he experienced the challenge so far. The Glossika challenge (#GlossikaChallenge) is almost over. You were supposed to make it to 3000 repetitions in October in order to win the challenge…

We are joined by the experienced English teacher and Spanish learner Craig Wealand. He is the host of the Inglespodcast and he knows his onions! (Inglespodcast – Los audio podcasts de La Mansión del Inglés) We talk about disfluencies: What are disfluencies? What are cruch words? How to reduce disfluencies? Why do we make disfluencies (crutch words …

This is the second part of the interview with Urmi. For the first part, head over to 117A. What do you think will language learning look like in 10 years time? (3:57) Are you an Italiki teacher? (5:29) Why should we talk lessons with you? (English/Italian) Can the students choose the topics? (6:39) Being someone who already learned a lot of vocabul…

Urmi Hossain is a full-time female worker in the financial services industry. She has been working in this industry for about six years and she comes from an educational background in Finance. She is currently pursuing her CFA designation. In her free time, she volunteers for causes such as women's empowerment and giving back to the non-privileged.…

This is a bonus episode. I just couldn't help myself. See for yourself. A special thank goes to Jesus who's intro was fantastic. He manages to inspire and motivate other learners. Please, follow his instagram: Jesus Mtz (@jessuss.mtz) • Instagram-Fotos und -Videos https://www.instagram.com/jessuss.mtz/ Thank you all. Your Daniel Goodson.…

English learner Asyraaf from Malaysia tells his language learning story and how he managed conducting more than 100 interviews on his podcast called Content Marketing Hacks. Making the podcast helped him tremendously to become a better English speaker. YouTube version Time stamps: 4:39 Hone your English through Podcasting 7:05 Communication problem…

Luciana decided to leave her country (Argentina) to become bilingual. Learn more about her journey in which she ended up being in Denmark. Here is the YouTube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/mbvQ_gxty4Q What is the BRAVE85 series? Learn more about it here: 85 - The BRAVE 85 - five interview excerpts What is the WISBOLEP competition? Learn…