Ten Questions ESL Podcast

LnR 085 Gift of the Magi 5

"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. "Cut it off and sold it," said D…

LnR 083 Gift of the Magi 4

At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops. Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her …

LnR 081 The Gift of the Magi 3

Where she stopped the sign read: "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, ha…

LnR 079 The Gift of the Magi 2

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Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a …

Hi! I'm still n the US. I have recovered from the surgery I had in January and the complications in wound healing that followed it. However, it's too late for me to go back to my classes in China thi…

This is a replay of a recording I made 2 1/2 years ago. It's about the American baseball championships, which we call the World Series. I made this in November of 2016. Right now it is May of 2019. I…

LnR 074 Long Time No See (Replay)

NOTE: This podcast episode is from October 2016! I say that I have just spent the summer in the US with my mother and her two cats (now she has three cats) and am no…

This is a podcast episode from about two years ago. I'm still in the US at my mother's house, recovering from surgery. I'll be OK eventually, buy my wounds are healing slower than usual. I'm resting …

Here's a replay from 2 1/2 years ago! Right now I'm visiting my mother and her three cats. I had surgery three weeks ago and am having a slow recovery. I have to rest a lot. I'm supposed to return to…

I'm sorry I haven't made any new podcast episodes for you for a while! I actually have three TQ (Ten Question) interviews that I've recorded, but haven't edited yet. I'm such a procrastinator! Do you…

I made this podcast episode in December 2015, and then replayed it last year just before Christmas. It's time for it again, as Christmas is in a couple of days! I had a nice dinner with some foreign …

LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 16

Chapter IV

Having won twenty guineas at whist, and taken leave of his friends, Phileas Fogg, at twenty-five minutes past seven, left the Reform Club.

Passeparto…

TQ 059 Lydia from the Netherlands (Replay)

I hosted Lydia two years ago. And then, a couple months later, I hosted her again as she headed back to Europe!

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Lydia, 21, stayed with me for sever…

LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 15

Stuart, whose turn it was to deal, gathered them up, and went on: "You are right, theoretically, Mr. Fogg, but practically—"

"Practically also, Mr. Stuart."

"…

TQ 058 Milena from Poland (Replay)

Milena and Alicja (TQ 056) stayed with me for two nights as they were on their way from China to Vietnam. Alexei (TQ 057) was also here at the same time - three hou…

LnR the World in Eighty Days 14

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"Certainly," returned Ralph. "I agree with Mr. Fogg. The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ag…

LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 13

There were real grounds for supposing, as the Daily Telegraph said, that the thief did not belong to a professional band. On the day of the robbery a well-dress…

TQ 057 Alexei from Belarus (Replay)

Here's an interview with a cyclist I hosted almost two years ago.

Alexei (also called Alex) stayed in my apartment several nights on his way from China to Vietnam.…

LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 12

At the beginning of this recording, I invite you to visit my website http://www.missbuswell.com/. On the right side of the page you'll see a chance to subscribe…

TQ 108 Arina and Aleksei from St Petersburg, Russia

I hosted Arina and Aleksei for three nights on near the beginning of their round-the-world hitchhiking adventure. They had already crossed Russia a…