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Zdenek’s English Podcast

Are you studying English alone? Are you at B1, B2, or C1 level? Do you need more listening practice? If so, I might be your guy!!! 😇.I’m a university and DELTA-qualified English teacher from the Czech Republic with almost 15 years of experience teaching English to foreigners in the Czech Republic, UK, Ireland and Vietnam. Come along for the ride!

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Episode 223 - June, LEP Premium, World Cup, Summer Camp

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/06/30

In this episode I would like to update you on what I have been doing. I had a free June which means I did a lot of things to kill time. I speak about LEP Premium which is a new service Luke from Luke's English Podcast offers, I talk about my plans for July, and last but not least, I spend considerable amount of time talking about the world cup and the chances of the teams who qualified. This is a completely unedited episode so excuse my mistakes, ramblings, and hesitations.

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Episode 222 - A Chat with Marija about English Exams

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/06/10

This episode was recorded outside by the river. In it I have an informal chat with a high level English speaker Marija who has been on the podcast before several times this year. We have a very relaxed conversation which mostly focuses on English exams. Marija also makes an attempt at evaluating her academic year. A second part which will only be available for patrons will follow soon.

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Episode 221 - A Chat with a Brit Studying in Japan

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/06/04

In this episode, I talk to a friend and another playtester of the game I have been developing called Kingdoms of Deceit. Nick is currently studying political science in Japan and so our chat naturally revolves around Japan, whatt is is like to live in Japan, Japanese mentality, Japanese history, and Japanese language. Admitedly the discussion is rather geeky at times, but Nick is a very well-spoken person with a nice clear accent therefore even if you know nothing about Japanese language, you can

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Episode 220 - Libraries, Books, and Knowledge

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/05/26

In this episode I talk to Shaun from England about his job which is a library assistant. We speak about books and how they can benefit us and we also discuss some knowledge related sayings.

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Episode 219 - Clare Back on ZEP

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/05/14

Remember Clare from episode 161? Well, she is back on the podcast. We did a nice skype catch-up discussing various topics such as teaching English, her life in the czech Republic, my experience of working in London, xenophobia, and more.

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Epizode 218 - A Friendly Chat with 2 Azeri Medicine...

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/05/07

In this episode I have a friendly chat with 2 young students of mine from Azerbaijan who have come to the Czech Republic to study medicine. We talk about different subjects such as their studies, cultural and mentality differences, what it is like to become an adult, and how it feels to move abroad and live there.

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Episode 217 - Colour Idioms in Context

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/04/23

For this episode I invited a friend of podcast Nrup who comes from India. The aim of this episode is to clarify idioms which contain colours so if you want to know what red herring, to be caught red-handed, to see red, in the black, to be born with a silver spoon the mounth and more mean, have a listen to this episode. Let me also use this as an opportunity to ask you to write a review for me on I-tunes. Positive reviews on this platform help more people find this podcast, which ultimately

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Episode 216 - Chinese and Russian Stereotypes

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/04/18

In this episode, I talk to my students Fu aka Cloudy and Nikita. The former is Chinese and the latter Russian. We go through some common stereotypes about their own countries, and discuss whether we think they are true or false. Due to openinmindedness of the guys, we manage to do this successfully even though the topics themselves may appear slightly controversial at first sight. Overall this is a lighthearted and fun chat. Are Chinese products of low quality? Are the Chinese polite? Can

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Episode 215 - A Chat with Max from the U.S.

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/04/07

In this episode, I speak to my friend and surprsingly also my former student Max from the United States of America. We talk about Max's journey of learning to speak Czech, the difference in mentality between the Americans and Czechs, Max's further study plans, and last but not least music. Max also exclusively for ZEP performed and recorded a song called Up against the Wall.

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Episode 214 - Road to Civilisation (instalment 11)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/04/01

Honza back on the podcast in another instalment of Road to Civilization series. Apart from the usual nonsensical banter, we also attempt to play a game of guessing animal sounds. Of course it ends up being a disaster as usual. Towards the end Honza's alter ego is revealed.

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Episode 213 - Th sounds in English (part 1)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/03/30

In this episode, I will take a look at phonology, namely how "th" is pronounced in English i.e "ð" and "θ" sounds. These seem to be some the most challenging sounds for most non-native speaker learners of English. The first half of this is my the theory presentation, while for the second half I intended to throw in various examples. However, that turned out to be a bit of self-indulging comedy show.

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Episode 212 - The Recorder Story

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/03/24

I have always been impressed by the Pink Gorilla Story episode (episode 125) of Luke's English Podcast and ever since I started doing my podcast I have dreamt of trying my hand at an improvised story like that. It has always been an objective that seemed unlikely to achieve especially because I was never able to keep it engaging and make it funny enough. I think I tried several times in the past and it just wasn't doing it for me. Partly it was because I put too much presssure on myself and had

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Episode 211 - A Class with three Africans and one...

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/03/17

In this episode I talk to my three African students from Etiopia, Senegal, and Kenya, as well as a young man from Peru. The talk revolves around the topic of studying languages. We discuss the challenges of trying to use the target language with the natives, we talk about geography of each student's country of origin, and we try to find motivating words for anyone learning a foreign langugae.

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Episode 210 - Being Sociable

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/03/10

This is a continuation of the interview with Key which was published in episode 208. The episode features Kay from Ireland herself, but also Maria from Macedonia, and Nrup from India. In a nutshell, it is a bit of a random chat involving interesting stories, especially the ones with Kay's priest brother quoting Starwars during his sermons, and how she is "sociable" with strangers on the Prague metro, and last but not least Nrup rining the bells of random houses. I have to say that at times I was

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Episode 209 - Two Improvised Recordings

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/03/04

This episode is a hodge-podge of 2 seemingly unrelated recordings. However, they have one thing in common - they are both improvised. In both cases there was absolutely no script whatsoever. The first part is a monologue ramble, which is not exactly information heavy. It was recorded because I had an urge to speak English as I was lying in my bed before mz bed time. Do not expect anmything profound in that one. The second one features a pre-intermediate student of mine, who is a doctor. We recorded

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Episode 208 - ‏Meet Kay - an Irish Teacher,...

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/02/24

In this episode, I talk to my friend and a regular board game meet-up attendee Kay. Despite her very young age, she has already lived in a lot of countries including Mexico, China, Italy, and Austria. Currently, she is working as an English teacher in the Czech Republic. What is more, she has also taught German, Spanish, Dutch and Irish, which makes her a polyglot. If this is not enough, she is also a stand-up comedian.

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Episode 207 - A Chat with Galaxy from Northern Ireland

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/02/14

In this episode, I talk to Jack aka Galaxy from Northern Ireland who happens to have a very distinct Northern Irish accent. We cover different topics such as geography, and politics (including Brexit). We also talk about Jack's univesity studies, his interests, and notably Galaxy teaches us some useful words from Northern Irish dialect. In additiona to all of this, you will actually hear me speak French in this episode. When I say "speak", I may be a bit exxagerating.

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Episode 206 - Dominik's Travel Experiences

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/02/08

This episode features Dominik, a friend of Mirek's. To remind you, Mirek was on the podcast in episode 97 - Iceskating with a Lifeguard (recorded about 3 years ago). As a coincidence, Dominik has recently started working for a company where I teach English so I became his English teacher. I learnt that Dominik and Mirek had worked in the USA as lifeguards together and this is what a major part of this interview is about - his 3 experiences of working in the USA as a lifeguard. Dominik studied

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Episode 205 - Bruce and his Learning Journey

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/01/30

In this episode I talk to Bruce who is a playtester for my board game Kingdoms of Deceit. We talk about the country he is from which happens to be Estonia, and about how Bruce learnt English through playing computer games. There is generally a lot of banter because we are friends. I would say that the the second part of the episode is a bit stronger because Bruce actually starts talking more.

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Episode 204 - Flashcards Vocabulary vol. 4

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2018/01/24

Anither episode in which I go through the expressions from my vocab app.

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