The Level Up English Podcast

Anna Connelly is known as Anna with 2Ns online and has her own podcast looking at Business English. She joins us today to discuss business English, giving presentations, job interviews, and more!

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Are you ready for a laugh?

Well, I can't promise that. But I'll do my best!

This is Part 2 of learning English with jokes and humour, where I'll be looking at puns you might find amusing while learni…

Are you looking for some inspiration this week?

Today I look at 4 of the world's most influential people and share some valuable life lessons we can all learn from. I explain how I think these can be …

Learn about the benefits you can receive from embracing your weirdness - in other words: accepting your uniqueness.

There are so many benefits of doing this for your language learning and for your li…

Dr. Valerie Fridland is a professor, sociolinguist, author, and public speaker. 

Her recent book is: Like, Literally, Dude. Arguing for the Good in Bad English.

She joins me on the podcast today for a …

In this week's episode, we're exploring the fun topic of animals, except we're not learning simple animal words or noises they make. This is more advanced.

We'll be looking at a few animal idioms, exp…

We'll be talking today about making phone calls in English, including tips on being confident and doing it successfully, as well as some useful expressions that we all use on the phone.

Even if you d…

Today I'm answering a question I hear all the time - How long until I get fluent in English?

How many months or years until I can be done?

I answer this question in detail today by responding directly…

Richard Simcott has a strong passion for language learning and is described by Wikipedia as a hyperpolyglot (a word I had never heard of before).
This is an episode you definitely don't want to miss! 

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In this episode, we're talking about money! I share lots of very useful words related to finances, making and saving money, as well as some useful ways of describing people's attitudes towards money.…

As time goes on, we're seeing more and more impressive advancements in AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology. Recently, a chat bot called Chat GPT has become popular and I asked this program to des…

In this episode, we talk about practising self-love, self-acceptance, confidence and more. We relate this to language learning and having the best attitude to succeed in life.

I think this can be a u…

In this episode, I'm very sorry to say that we are talking about apologising! We cover the topic of British culture and why we say sorry so much, different meanings related to the word 'sorry', and s…

Anna from ​@EnglishLikeANative and I have a casual chat around the topic of interests and passion.

We also talk about...

- Anna's interesting background before teaching
- Anna's assessment of my accent
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In this episode, I talk about my advice on surviving a zombie outbreak based on my extensive experience watching zombie TV series and playing video games. It's a bit of fun, but we also include some …

Why should we take a break? Well, there are many reasons! In this episode, I talk about some of the benefits of taking a break from coffee, work, relationships, and more. We look at the phrase "Dista…

This episode is based on a recent group class I taught looking at giving and asking for advice. In this episode, I'll share some good and bad advice i've received, as well as ask you all advice on a …

Tika (Tika Teaches English) is an English teacher from England but now living in South Korea and has been for several months now. She kindly joined me for a chat about this transition to a new countr…

Although my lessons on jokes have always been a bit awkward in the past, let's have a go at covering it in a podcast episode today. We'll be looking at 5 jokes; each has a word or expression we can l…

With the Christmas and the holiday season, we tend to buy a lot and consumerism is rampant. With that, I thought an episode about shopping would be timely. In this episode, we'll look at lots of grea…