Welcome to episode 47 of The English Sessions. The Silent B. I am your host and English teacher, Mike Butler. These podcasts can help you improve your English! Together, we will talk about grammar… pronunciation… structure... and have some fun too. Remember to visit my website, www.englishsessionswithmike.com to contact me for private lessons, and for more content.

You can also read the transcript of this audio on the website as you listen to this episode. For the full audio transcript, go to https://www.patreon.com/theenglishsessions

Are you ready to improve your English? Go to www.englishsessionswithmike.com and click on Schedule a Lesson today. I now offer all of my lessons for free! That’s right! Free! Every lesson is free. (www.englishsessionswithmike.com)

Listen for these words today:

Lamb - a young sheep

Subtle - ‘subtle’ means NOT OBVIOUS, or delicate, or precise. There can be a subtle meaning to something, that is not obvious or clear at first.

Succumb - to give in, to surrender, to be overwhelmed by something.

Get rid of - to ‘get rid of’ something means to remove something; to throw out something; to destroy / to eliminate (something). If you don’t want it or need it anymore, you get rid of it.

Clutter - ‘clutter’ is a verb and a noun. ‘Clutter’ is disorder, a mess. To clutter means ‘to make a mess’ / ‘to be untidy’. His room was cluttered with garbage and dirty clothes.

English Around the World - Belize - Vondra

- For Advanced Learners and Native English Speakers - 

Welcome to Episode 2 of a series I’m calling English Around the World. I am your host and English teacher, Mike Butler. These episodes within the English Around the World series are going to look a bit different. They are for more advanced English learners, and for any native English speakers who are just curious about other accents around the world. 

In episode 1 I spoke with Omar in The Gambia. I highly suggest that you go back and listen to that episode first. It gives you an idea of why I wanted to start this podcast series. 

For today’s episode, I had a conversation with Vondra, from Belize.

Vondra's website is www.mybelizebox.com
Use the coupon code belizebox10 to get 10% off your order.

For the full audio transcript, go to https://www.patreon.com/theenglishsessions

Schedule free lessons with Mike: https://www.englishsessionswithmike.com/p/schedule-lesson.html

Welcome to episode 45 of The English Sessions. The “As” Sandwich. I am your host and English teacher, Mike Butler. These podcasts can help you improve your English! Together, we will talk about grammar… pronunciation… structure... and have some fun too. Remember to visit my website, www.englishsessionswithmike.com to contact me for private lessons, and for more content. 

You can also read the transcript of this audio on the website as you listen to this episode. For the full audio transcript, go to https://www.patreon.com/theenglishsessions

Are you ready to improve your English? Go to www.englishsessionswithmike.com and click on Schedule a Lesson today. The first lesson, 30 minutes with Mike, is free…. (englishsessionswithmike.com)

How you can help Omar's family: https://gofund.me/22bc874c

- For Advanced Learners and Native English Speakers -

Welcome to Episode 1 of a new series I’m calling English Around the World. I am your host and English teacher, Mike Butler. These episodes within the English Around the World series are going to look a bit different. They are for more advanced English learners, and for any native English speakers who are just curious about other accents around the world.

For more, including the video of the Tabaski festival in HD, go to www.englishsessionswithmike.com

For the full audio transcript, visit patreon.com/theenglishsessions

Welcome to Episode 44 of The English Sessions. Pronunciation of B A S S and B A S E. I am your host and English teacher, Mike Butler. These podcasts can help you improve your English! Together, we will talk about grammar… pronunciation… structure... and have some fun too. Remember to visit my website, www.englishsessionswithmike.com to contact me for private lessons, and for more content. 

You can also read the transcript of this audio on the website as you listen to this episode. For the full audio transcript, go to https://www.patreon.com/theenglishsessions

Are you ready to improve your English? Go to www.englishsessionswithmike.com and click on Schedule a Lesson today. The first lesson, 30 minutes with Mike, is free…. (englishsessionswithmike.com)

Listen for these words today: 

Storm - a storm is intense weather often with strong winds, rain, thunder, lightning or snow!

Move on - “MOVE ON” is a phrasal verb that means “continue” or “progress”. It can also mean to leave a place; change to a different subject or activity; change ideas, attitudes, behaviour etc. “Let’s move on to our next topic of conversation”. Let’s move on to the next word in our vocabulary for today. 

Racket - RACKET has a few different definitions. I want to keep this simple, so I will say that for today’s episode, RACKET means NOISE! Unwanted noise. Nobody likes a ‘racket’. Hey! Turn off that racket! I don’t like that kind of music. It’s just noise to me!

Welcome a bonus episode of The English Sessions. An episode on Jakarta, Indonesia. I am your host and English teacher, Mike Butler. These podcasts can help you improve your English! Together, we will talk about grammar… pronunciation… structure... and have some fun too. Remember to visit my website, www.englishsessionswithmike.com to contact me for private lessons, and for more content. 

You can also read the transcript of this audio on the website as you listen to this episode. For the full audio transcript, go to https://www.patreon.com/theenglishsessions

Are you ready to improve your English? Go to www.englishsessionswithmike.com and click on Schedule a Lesson today. The first lesson, 30 minutes with Mike, is free…. (englishsessionswithmike.com)

Listen for these words today: 

Dense - ‘dense’ is another word for ‘closely packed’ or ‘crowded’

Archipelago - a group of islands

Commander - a commander is the leader of an army. The boss, or chief, of an army. 

Welcome to episode 43 of The English Sessions. I am your host and English teacher, Mike Butler. These podcasts can help you improve your English! Together, we will talk about grammar… pronunciation… structure... and have some fun too. Remember to visit my website, www.englishsessionswithmike.com to contact me for private lessons, and for more content. 

You can also read the transcript of this audio on the website as you listen to this episode. For the full audio transcript, go to https://www.patreon.com/theenglishsessions

Are you ready to improve your English? Go to www.englishsessionswithmike.com and click on Schedule a Lesson today. The first lesson, 30 minutes with Mike, is free…. (englishsessionswithmike.com)

Listen for these words today: 

Second-hand store: A second-hand store is a store that sells items that are not new. A second-hand store sells used items. Sometimes a second-hand store is called a ‘thrift’ store. A very common secondhand store, or thrift store, in my country is called Goodwill. 

Thief - a thief is a person who steals from other people. They take items that do not belong to them. A thief can steal from a person. A thief can steal from a store… or a museum!