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Master English With Tim

Wanna master English? Then master the details of English listening, English vocabulary, and English grammar. -Master English listening: Learn real world pronunciations like "gonna", "hafta" and "didja" instead of the language you hear in the classroom. Understand spoken English more clearly and with greater detail. -Master English vocabulary: Focus on NGSL vocabulary- the most used words. Each word has different meanings and functions- enjoy exploring them. Learn these words in depth and detail to

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32:25

Episode #27: Is English hard for Russian speakers?

Master English With Tim ·

2024/01/18

In Episode 9, Tim talked about how his experience learning Russian as an English native speaker- what aspects of Russian were easy for him and which were hard. In this episode, Tim tells which features of English are easy and which are difficult for Russian speakers. Everything is covered: vowels, consonants, consonant clusters, word stress, intonation, the chewing gum accent; spelling, word formation, vocabulary (including phrasal verbs) and grammar.

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Episode #26: Flashcards for learning vocabulary-...

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2024/01/18

Flashcards can be paper (or digital) word cards with an English word you’re trying to learn on one side, with either a translation into your language or a definition in English on the other. Flashcards seem to offer a quick and easy way to learn a large amount of vocabulary- some language learners claim that they can add 100 words in a day to their long-term memory by using flashcards! But is using flashcards for learning vocabulary effective? Listen to Episode 26 to hear five stories about

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Episode #25: How to Make Subject Questions

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2024/01/18

“How do you make questions?” Before we answer this question, we need to understand that there are different types of questions: yes/ no questions, wh- questions, and subject questions.In today’s episode, Tim talks about subject questions. Subject questions are questions in which we don’t know who does the action the sentence talks about. For example:Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?In some subject questions, we don’t know how many people did an action:How many people came to the

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16:35

Episode #24: Gerund or Infinitive? (Part 2)

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2024/01/18

Gerund or infinitive?In last week’s episode, Tim talked about whether to use the gerund or the base form. This week, Tim shifts his focus to how to choose the gerund or the infinitive. There is a hack for choosing the gerund or the infinitive that works most of the time: infinitives are used in situations where an action is not yet completed.You can see this in three situations:1. In the expression “about to”:-I’m about to fall asleep.2. To talk about the goal or purpose of an action:-She’s saving

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Episode #23: Gerund, Base Form or Infinitive? (Part 1)

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2024/01/18

Tim’s students often ask him about the rules for choosing the gerund or the infinitive. This is a great question and an important topic in English grammar- knowing the right form will help you understand clearly and speak correctly. In reality though, there is a third verb form we need to choose from- the base form. In this episode, Tim focuses on the base form and the gerund, leaving the infinitive for next week’s episode.

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27:26

Episode #22: Nightmare Bike Tour

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2024/01/18

Way back in July 2009, Tim decided it was a good idea to ride his mountain bike alone and without maps from Sergeev Posad to Yaroslavl. Just as his students warned him would happen, Tim soon found himself trapped between bandits and rogues, and was even invited into the attic (the part of a building that is just below the roof and that is used to store old and forgotten things) of a temporarily empty building.In addition to these adventures, Tim got badly sunburnt, which cut his trip short but also

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20:59

Episode #21: Read Easy Books in English

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2024/01/15

Which do you prefer- reading fluently in your own language, or reading English while using a dictionary to look up unknown words? Obviously the first. But what if you could read English books with something like the ease that you do in your own language? Well, you can- and you can do it today.Extensive reading is the reading of a large amount of easy books over a long period of time- for example, reading books where you understand 98% of the words, for 30 minutes per day every day for one year

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23:41

Episode #20: Six Synonyms of “Become”

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2024/01/12

In Episode 20, Tim talks about the common verb BECOME and six synonyms you can use in its place to have more control over your language and sound more sophisticated. One of these verbs is GET, which Tim already spoke about in Episode 6. The other synonyms of BECOME are: TURN, GO, GROW, WAX and FALL. Listen in to learn exactly how to use each of these verbs, and of course hear plenty of examples!

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25:21

Episode #19: Learn D1 English with ancient word roots.

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2024/01/12

Language mastery does not stop at level C2.I’m not the first to propose this idea, but especially for written texts we really need to add some new difficulty levels: D1 and D2, to describe academic texts that use a lot of smart-sounding words.A good way to get started learning these words is by learning Greek, Latin and even Proto-Indo-European roots that are shared by a large number of words, many of which are very advanced (and make you sound smart and cool):Words with root VOR: devour, voracious,

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Episode #18: Chewing gum bomb.

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2024/01/12

Way back in Episode #7, Tim introduced you to the chewing gum accent, where native and very advanced speakers of English pronounce common words and phrases in ways that barely resemble their written forms. Some of these pronunciations are ones that you already know, for example “gonna” instead of the more book-like, correct form “going to” or “prolly” instead of the full form “probably”.Three surprising facts:1. English speakers don’t speak fast- instead they smash spoken words and phrases

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Episode #17: Wild (and not so wild) animals of Ohio.

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2024/01/12

In Episode #17, Tim talks about the surprising variety of unusual animals you can find in an Ohio suburb: white-tailed deer (like Bambi), eastern gray squirrels (bigger than their European cousins), chipmunks (a bit like squirrels, but much smaller and with their houses on the ground instead of in the trees), lightning bugs (also called fireflies- insects which make light at night) and cicadas (large, heavy, winged insects that sing very loudly and have large, brightly colored eyes).All links are

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Episode #16: Battle of the Dictionaries

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2024/01/12

In Episode #16, Tim compares six of the best online dictionaries: Google Translate, Longman’s, Cambridge, Britannica, Wiktionary, Chat GPT, and also Tim’s own dictionaries, one of which, Words For Numbers, is available online as a subscription. Which dictionary is best for students at each level of language learning? What are the strong and weak points of each dictionary? Find out in this episode so you can choose the best learning tools for yourself.

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24:09

Episode #15: Ancient word roots. Plus horror stories.

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2024/01/12

In Episode #15, Tim shifts his attention from the details of English and English teaching to four true, sad and bizarre stories from his life and travels, as well as a bit of Indo-European etymology. After all, Tim does get around the world and so it is morally imperative that he turn base metal to gold by sharing his horrible experiences for the jollification of others.

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19:05

Episode #14: Four Techniques for Better Grammar.

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2024/01/12

In Episode 1, Tim talked about the first step to speaking and writing with correct grammar: understanding the details of others’ output so we have correct models to imitate.In today’s episode, Tim talks about four ways students can reduce the number of mistakes they make when speaking and writing themselves.

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Episode #13: More questions, fewer rules, part 2: wh-...

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2024/01/12

Tim has been teaching English for eighteen years, and perhaps the most common difficulty his students have is with constructing questions. Popular textbooks like English File and Headway show how to construct questions, but students need more examples than these books contain. In Episode 5, Tim gave over two hundred examples of one type of question- yes/ no questions, and he later offered students a free PDF containing 201 yes/ no questions organized in tables and with grammatical explanations.In

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29:07

Episode #12: Exploring Bangladesh

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2024/01/12

Listen to Tim’s impressions of Dhaka, Bangladesh- its people, food, places and atmosphere.Don't forget to check out the travel photos, published originally on Tim's personal website.

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Episode #11: NGSL 1331-1340. 10 words, 27 meanings.

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2024/01/12

The NGSL, which Tim talked about in Episode 2, is a list of the top 2800 words of English in order of frequency- with the most used words at the beginning so you learn the most important vocabulary first. The NGSL is oriented mainly towards written, non-fiction English, which means that knowing the words in it well will help you better understand newspapers, magazines and books. It will also help you to sound smarter when you speak, and who doesn’t want that? In this episode, Tim tells 27

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Episode #10: Speaking of Influence...

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2024/01/12

How do you make others do what you want them to do? In Episode #10, Tim the native speaker English teacher, polyglot and world traveler tells you the most practical words and constructions to talk about influencing others.

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25:45

Episode #9: How I Learned Russian

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2024/01/12

You’ve heard Tim the teacher and Tim the traveler. But what about Tim the student? In Episode 9, Tim shares his experience learning Russian from almost zero while living in Moscow 2006-2009.

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16:18

Episode #8: Learning to Love LIKE.

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2024/01/12

LIKE is another one of those words that seems to mean everything, or nothing, or maybe even both at the same time. In Episode 8, Tim separates the different meanings of this very commonly used word and gives examples of each of them to help you understand LIKE every time you hear it.

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