Alan Palmer's Language Chat podcasts
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I love learning languages and in discovering all the opportunities that the Internet gives us to develop our language skills.
I will post mostly in English, but don't be surprised if some of my podcasts are in other languages...
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Your chathost Alan (November 2008)
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2009
Song Title: "I'll Be Back" by Alan Palmer (Original Artists: The Beatles from Hard Day's Night)
Hello,
Today I am playing a Beatles song for you - which I like very m…
00:02:40 |
Sat 19 Jul 2008
Speaking with native (or near native) speakers of English
More on conversations with native speakers
Today I’d like to tell you more on starting conversations with native speakers when you are travelling to England, or anoth…
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Mon 14 Jul 2008
Weekend Words July 13th "Stress on words" #2
Hello everybody,
Some languages use tones or stress sounds (like Chinese) which shows meaning. Today’s Weekend words is more about how in English we use tones on diff…
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Mon 14 Jul 2008
English Castles
History of the English Castle
Many English castles were built of stone during the Medieval era. But the history of the English castle …
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Tue 08 Jul 2008
Mind your words! with "Mind word essays" (normal speed speech recording)
Hello everybody
Today I want to talk about a new idea I have had to do…
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Mon 16 Jun 2008
Weekend words May 4th
Hello everyone, good evening.
Alan here from England, and this time I’m speaking without a text again. It’s always interesting for me to just speak without a text, because this is how we speak normal…
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Sun 04 May 2008
Guitar Improvisation "Funny Bone"
I hope you like my guitar piece which I played this evening and a nice sunny evening in England
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Fri 02 May 2008
Conversations with native speakers
Hello everyone,
Today I would like to talk about how better to get conversations started.
When we learn languages, we always want so much to speak with native speakers – but at the same time, we al…
00:11:54 |
Thu 24 Apr 2008
Idea of checking your own progress with English
Hello everybody
It’s nice to be here again to talk to you. I’ve been having some nice feedback about my podcasts recently and it’s always nice to receive it. Thanks to those of you who sent me mess…
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Tue 15 Apr 2008
Weekend words April 6th
hello everybody
For my weekend words today, I want to talk about why sometimes it is difficult to understand native speakers, even when you may have been learning English a long time.
I discovered…
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Sun 06 Apr 2008
Chatcast April 1st (Alan's tea-time chat)
Hello everybody,
Today I have just decided to talk - no text prepared. So I will listen back to it later and write down for you what I said - so you can read along with me speaking.
In the meantime…
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Tue 01 Apr 2008
Guitar tune - Cookies for Tea
I hope you like this guitar tune I recorded today on my 12-string acoustic guitar...
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Mon 17 Mar 2008
Weekend words March 15th Keeping motivated to learn languages
Hello everybody
For my weekend words today I'd like to discuss ways to make language learning more interesting.
Often, people ask us why we learn one or more languages. We sometimes ask ourselves why…
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Sat 15 Mar 2008
Weekend Words 1st March
Hello everybody,
I hope you are all well. It has been a little while since I made a podcast. Thank you for all you nice messages.
Today I would like to talk about being positive and relaxed about l…
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Sat 01 Mar 2008
Weekend Words February 15th (speed of speaking in friendly conversations)
Hello everybody.
For my weekend words this week I want to talk about conversation practice and speed of speaking.
Over the years, I've met a lot of people who are learning English as a foreign langua…
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Fri 15 Feb 2008
Weekend Words February 10th (Increasing cultural understanding)
Hello everybody. For my weekend words today I wanted to talk about using short newspaper, magazine or Internet articles to help develop language and also how, at the same time to understand more abou…
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Sun 10 Feb 2008
New way to learn vocabulary?
Hello everybody,
Today I wanted to talk about my ideas on increasing fluency (which in my opinion is about how easy you can use a language at a high level)
I wanted to tell you about a new idea I h…
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Sat 02 Feb 2008
Using simple sentences to gain fluency
Hello everybody,
Today I wanted to talk about practicing phrases to make it easier to remember how to say things and the right words to use
I want to go shopping because my sister is coming and we…
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Wed 30 Jan 2008
Placing emphasis on words when speaking
Hello everybody. This is a continuation of my podcast about difficult sounds in English.
English often uses stress or emphasis on syllables within a word. Stress is sometimes used in spoken English …
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Thu 24 Jan 2008
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