The Level Up English Podcast

In Episode 300 of the podcast, Akari from the Nihongo For You podcast joins me today for a chat about teaching languages, moving abroad, and learning English.

In the second half of the episode, we tal…

In my last episode, I spoke about my cycling trip to Taiwan. While there, I had a lot of time alone to think to myself with no distractions. In this episode today, I'm going to share some of the thin…

I took 2 weeks off in October to ride a bicycle around the whole of Taiwan. It was over 1000km and took about 2 weeks to complete. Along the way, I had both good and bad experiences and there's a lot…

The Comparison Trap is when we get stuck comparing our lives to other people and feeling worse as a result.

It's a common problem in language learning, and this is something that I often experience to…

Curiosity is an important thing to practice to be better English language learners and enjoy your life more.

When we start learning a language, we’re naturally very open and curious to learning new t…

Megan is a teacher from Manchester, UK who has been teaching for 10 years and recently made the move to online classes. Megan specialises in Business English for professionals and improving spoken fl…

Let's look at 3 ways we can use 'used to' in English. We'll look at the different grammar and way we structure these terms while answering fun and interesting questions on these topics.

I encourage yo…

This is a really fun episode all about the recent progress of AI (Artificial Intelligence) - specifically in the area of audio and music.

I share a few songs that were made by AI about this podcast th…

I'm exploring a topic I truly love today and looking at the most unusual and strange places on our planet.

I'll be talking about the highest cities, hottest places, coldest places, and much more in to…

In today's episode, we're exploring the topics of optimism, pessimism, and realism. These are different attitudes towards life and the future and can have a massive impact on your happiness and menta…

Paola from the Talaera Talks podcast and I are doing a cross-post episode today. You can also find this episode and many more over on their podcast.

The topic is all about jobs, careers, and business…

One of the listeners suggested I talk about the topic of work-life balance.

This is something I've been working on in my own life for many years, and I feel like I might have something useful to shar…

I recently went back to my home country - the UK - for the first time in a quite a while and was fascinated by how the UK appeared to me after being away for a while.

There was a lot that I found stra…

I just came back from a trip in Europe and I thought I'd get on the microphone today and review some of the good and bad experiences I had there.

I made the adventurous decision to travel from London …

Fran from Step Up Japanese and I discuss a few different topics in today's episode, including:

• The Shikoku 88 Pilgrimage (walking around the Japanese island of Shikoku)
• The Tadoku reading method for la…

This is the fifth episode in the AMA series (Ask Me Anything) where the listeners of the podcast ask me questions about English learning, British culture, or maybe something totally unrelated.

They're…

We've done a few episodes on phrasal verbs now, including the verbs Turn and Set, and this is a continuation of that series, except today we're looking at a preposition: Out.

I'll be covering 8 diffe…

I've always been interested in body language, and today I'd like to share that interest with you all.

I'm going to be reviewing and reacting to some amazing body language facts from some articles whil…

Stephen from the SEND7 podcast joins me today for a talk about the news. We cover a wide range of topics, such as learning English with the news, avoiding bias and fake news, how to deal with news an…

I'm so excited for this topic, because today we're looking at Cognitive Biases.

This is how our brains can trick us into certain beliefs and behaviours. Learn about things like the Sunk Cost Fallacy, …