Ten Questions ESL Podcast
Hi, I'm Nancy Buswell and I've been teaching people how to improve their English for over 16 years! I'm an American who teaches in a university in southern China. The Ten Questions ESL (English as a Second Language) Podcast is for people around the world who want to improve their English listening comprehension and English accent (intonation). I produce two kinds of podcast episodes. 1) TQ: My original idea was the Ten Questions ESL Podcast. I interview native and non-native English speakers and ask them the same ten questions. You can practice your listening comprehension and learn about other people and other cultures at the same time. 2) LnR: These podcasts are for people who want to improve their intonation and pronunciation. I say a sentence or phrase and you can repeat after me. The LnR podcasts with even numbers (such as 042, 044) have dialogues that I write that use informal speech, that is, the kind of language that friends use with each other. The LnR podcasts with odd numbers (such as 043, 045) use selections from novels, poems or speeches. In December I simplified my podcasts and stopped making the Sun3 episodes, and changed LnR into two kinds: formal and informal language. I'm just one person doing all of this,because I like podcasts and I love helping people to improve their English. My goal is that my podcasts will help individuals around the world as well as English teachers around the world. If you are an English teacher, please share these with your students and/or use them in class. If you are an English-language learner, please share these with your friends, classmates and teachers.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
LnR 118 (Casual Language) Side Hustle (Replay)
LnR 118 (Casual Language) Side Hustle (Replay)
Hi, I hope that everyone is doing well. The U.S. is finally getting serious about trying to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the country. We are su…
LnR 116 (Casual Language) Desert/Dessert (Replay)
LnR 116 (Casual Language) Desert/Dessert (Replay from 2 1/2 years ago)
A: Teacher, how to pronounce this word?
B: This one, with two s's, is pronounced "dessert". It means sweet food after di…
LnR 114 (Casual Language) Way to go! (Replay)
Hi everyone around the world! I love looking at my statistics each night, seeing all the countries where people who download my podcast episodes live. I get a kick out of it! Thanks for listening. I …
TQ 109 Jasmijn from Belgium
TQ 109 Jasmijn from Belgium
Finally I am giving you a new podcast episode! I've been using old Listen and Repeat episodes for over a year, but now I have a Ten Questions episode. When I started the p…
LnR 112 (Casual Language) As You Know (Replay)
Happy 2019 Everyone! I'm still living in the U.S. with my mother . . . and now my brother is living with us while he's between jobs. He quit a terrible job teaching English at a high school in a very…
LnR 110 (Casual Language) What did I do? (Replay)
Here's another episode from 2 1/2 years ago.
LnR 110 (Casual Language) What did I do? (Replay)
Ten questions starting with the word "what".
- What did I do?
- What did he do?
- What did she want?
- What did…
LnR 106 (Casual Language) Wikipedia (Replay)
LnR 106 (Casual Language) Wikipedia (Replay)
Listen and Repeat:
A: Hi there, what are you doing? (Watcha doin'?)
B: Oh, hey. I'm working on my paper for World History class.
A: Oh, yeah. I finished m…
LnR 104 (Casual Language) Extracurricular Activities (Replay)
Hi! Thanks for downloading my podcast! I hope that you will find it useful. If you are new, my name is Nancy Buswell. When I recorded this podcast episode 2 1/2 years ago I was teaching in Nanning, C…
LnR 102 (Casual Language) Fast Food (Replay)
Hello from the U.S. state of Arkansas, where fall weather has finally arrived! Many people like the fall, but I like hot weather, not cold weather. Fortunately, it's only cool now, not cold. Here's a…
LnR 100 (Casual Language) Vocab (Replay)
I made this recording 2 1/2 years ago when I was still teaching in a classroom. Now I'm teaching at home, online. What a change! I miss being in front of my students, though it's nice to work at home…
LnR 098 (Casual Language) Are you serious? (Replay)
Hello as usual from Arkansas, a small state in the American South! The weather is still hot, which I like a lot, though I know that fall is around the corner. Here is a dialog about computers that I …
LnR 096 (Casual Language) Chores (Replay)
LnR 096 (Casual Language) Chores (Replay)
It's still warm and humid in Arkansas, USA now! I like hot weather, so I'm not in a hurry for fall to get here. I'm enjoying living in the US and teaching En…
LnR 092 (Casual Language) Vacation (Replay)
This podcast episode is from 2 1/2 years ago, just before I went on a two-week vacation in the country of Laos. I had a really great time there! Now, if you don't know, I'm living with my mother and …
LnR 090 (Casual Language) Say and Hey (Replay)
Hi! I'm back in the US now. I spent two weeks in China, clearing out my apartment. I sold a few things, gave away and threw away a lot of things, and sent some things home by slow boat. It was a busy…
LnR 088 (Casual Language) Loan, Lend or Borrow? (Replay)
I'm in my old apartment in Nanning, China now! I came back for about 12 days to clear the apartment of my things because I won't be working here anymore. I have a lot of work to do, figuring out what…
LnR 086 I call Ken (Replay)
This podcast episode is from December 2016. Now my brother Ken has two cats of his own, Lucy and Jackson. When he comes home at Christmas and for a couple weeks in the summer, there are five cats in …
LnR 084 Accent and Dialect (Replay)
LnR 084 Accent and Dialect (Replay)
A: Where are you from? I don't recognize your accent?
B: South Africa! What about you? You sound American.
A: Close. I'm from Canada, but I don't have a typical Ca…
LnR 082 15 or 50? (Replay)
Hi! Here's a podcast episode I made in December 2016. I hope you find it useful.
Nancy Buswell
nancy@missbuswell/com
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LnR 082 15 or 50? (Replay)
A: My son is 13 years old…
LnR 080 Too or Very (Replay)
Here's an episode from 2 1/2 years ago. It highlights a common problem: getting "too" and "very" mixed up.
Last week I experimented by posting six podcast episodes at the same time. I wanted to see h…
LnR 087 Gift of the Magi 6 (Replay)
This is the last episode in this series. I have posted all six episodes tonight. I haven't done this before. I used to try to post three podcast episodes a week, but since I've been at home recoverin…