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 Around the World in Eighty Days 11
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 11
Chapter III
IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR
Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven…
Fresh Off The Boat S 1 E 2
You can contact me at [email protected] to tell me if you want the vocabulary part to be shorter, or if you have any other comments about my podcasts.
Fresh Off The Boat S 1 E 2
Dialog
Mr. Huang:…
TQ 107 Kristina from Ukraine
TQ 107 Kristina from Ukraine
Kristina and her two friends Kirill and Peter stayed with me in Nanning for four days. They had hitchhiked from Ukraine in Europe and were headed to Vietnam. Listen as we…
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 10
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 10
Mr. Fogg's wardrobe was amply supplied and in the best taste. Each pair of trousers, coat, and vest bore a number, indicating the time of year and season at whi…
Fresh Off the Boat Season 1 Episode 1
Fresh Off the Boat S 1 E 1
Vocabulary
- Shaq
- narc: Shut up, you little Chinese narc!
- to haggle: Moms thought that everything was too much. She never understood that you couldn’t haggle at JC Penney’…
Fresh Off the Boat Introduction
Fresh Off the Boat Introduction
This podcast is only me talking! There's no Listen and Repeat.
I introduce the TV series "Fresh Off the Boat to you. I tell you about the mom and dad, Louis and Jessic…
TQ 056 Alicja from Poland (Replay)
TQ 056 Alicja from Poland (Replay)
Alicja and her friend Milena stayed with me two nights. A cyclist from Belarus was also here at the same time. Alicja and her friend sometimes travel by hitchhiking…
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 9
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 9
At half-past eleven, then, Passepartout found himself alone in the house in Saville Row. He began its inspection without delay, scouring it from cellar to garret…
LnR 058 Words from Spanish (Replay)
LnR 058 Words from Spanish (Replay)
Here are the words:
adios cafeteria canyon Chihuahua (a city in Mexico and a small dog) chili El Nino (there should be a mark over the second "…
LnR 056 Words from Chinese and Cantonese (Replay)
LnR 056 Words from Chinese and Cantonese (Replay)
I said in the beginning that this podcast episode would be short, but it's not!
Here are the words:
tofu kungfu tai chi typhoon kowto…
LnR 054 Words from German (Replay)
Hello from Nanning in southern China! I arrived back home (I have two homes, in China and in the US) on Monday. I still have jet lag, which means I feel more tired than usual and I have trouble sleep…
LnR 052 Words from French (Replay-Casual English)
LnR 052 Words from French (Replay)
>>> I'm in a hotel room tonight because I leave early tomorrow morning for China! My mother lives 2 1/2 hours from the airport, and my flight is early in the mornin…
LnR 050 If I were . . . . (Replay-Casual English)
LnR 050 If I were . . . (Replay) This was recorded two years ago. I'm still on vacation at my mother's house in the U.S.
The unreal conditional: If I were . . . , I would/could . . . .
I sing the son…
TQ 106 Matthew from Shanghai, China
TQ 106 Matthew from Shanghai, China
Matthew, age 14, will enter the 9th grade this fall. I interviewed him while he and his mother stayed with me and my mother in Arkansas. He came to the U.S. with a…
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 8
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 8
As for Passepartout, he was a true Parisian of Paris. Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking service as a valet, he had in vain searched f…
LnR 048 Throw under the bus (Replay - Casual English)
LnR 048 Throw under the bus (Replay)
My Chinese friend Lina and her son left yesterday. I hope you have listened to her interview. I'll post her son's interview next Wednesday.
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Two friends are …
TQ 105 Lina from Shanghai, China
TQ 105 Lina from Shanghai, China
I met Lina 18 years ago when I taught in Hangzhou, China and she was getting a master's degree in English. After that she got a job at the best university in Shanghai…
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 7
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 7
Chapter 2
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL
"Faith," muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, "I've seen people at Madame T…
LnR 046 Hip Hop Slang (JK!) (Replay)
I'm still enjoying the summer with my mother in the US. Tomorrow I'm going to pick up an old friend from China, who is visiting the US with her son. By the way, if you are Chinese, you can find me on…
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 6
LnR Around the World in Eighty Days 6
A young man of thirty advanced and bowed.
"You are a Frenchman, I believe," asked Phileas Fogg, "and your name is John?"
"Jean, if monsieur pleases," replied the…