Business Series: Leading a Meeting

This is our second episode of our Business Series - Interrupting Politely. Over the next few months we are going to release ten new episodes on how you can be more confident in business in an Englis...

29 Maj 15min

Jon and Gideon cover five mistakes that advanced learners still make. We talk about using “very” too often, being too formal in conversation, incorrect collocations, small word order issues and transl...

27 Mars 22min

Jon and Gideon are in Chiang Mai, Thailand together, talking about some common myths about British culture and the English language. Do British people find it difficult to talk to strangers, are we al...

27 Feb 36min

Jon and Gideon talk about some fossilised expressions. These expressions such as “hang up” and “backfire”. They are expressions that refer to an old technology but are still used in present day Englis...

30 Jan 28min

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about how to use the word 'take' in different ways. We give an explanation and a few different examples on how you can use it. Perfect if you don't have much ...

30 Dec 20258min

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about how to use the word 'run' in different ways. We give an explanation and a few different examples on how you can use it. Perfect if you don't have much t...

28 Nov 20258min

Jon and Gideon talk about some essential phrasal verbs. These are phrasal verbs that you're much more likely to use in everyday conversation such as “run out of”, “tell off” and “hang up” among others...

31 Okt 202542min