Season 2 Episode 14 Breaking Bad (habits)

Discussing common bad habits that intermediate ESL learners may develop, such as relying too heavily on translation, procrastinating on practice, or avoiding speaking opportunities.

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Season 2 Episode 13 - British English Accents

Come with me on a journey around the UK and NI's fabulous array of different English accents. Do you know your Geordie from your Scouse, or your Cockney from your Brummie?

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Season 2 Episode 12 Hwaet!

International Day of Happiness and Sparrows. The What, why, when and where of the W words.

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Season 2 Episode 11 - ill

Useful English vocabulary, phrases and idioms to describe having a minor cold.

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How to Skin a Cat. (Not really, it's about English idioms)

Listen to this episode which gives you a few English idioms to brighten up and add colour to your English learning.

Contact Richard on Facebook.com/richardhillenglish or email info@richardhill.cz

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Season 2 Episode 9 - Borders & Boundaries

Today's ESL talk is about borders, boundaries, state lines and pushing your personal boundaries.

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Season 2 Episode 8 School Part 2

A brief history of the UK education system, how school has changed over the years, and my vision for the future including how AI might influence it.

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Season 2 Episode 7 - School Part 1

What is the English school system like? Primary, elementary, middle, high, college, and university. Which is which? It's so confusing. Here's my experience from thirty years ago,

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Season 2 Episode 6 - Hadrian and Churchill

A shorter than usual English language episode for intermediate English learners. Learn a little about Hadrian, Churchill, and Macintosh.

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Season 2 Episode 5 - Arnie, Arthur, and Skeletor

I've seen the future... AI, VR, AR, that'll do for English acronyms. A chat about how sci-fi art has influenced technology and how active recall can help you remember more English words.

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What do Karel Capek, the iPhone, and Richard Nixon have in common?

Well, I'm not telling you hear, you have to listen to find out...

Welcome to the Rich English Podcast - Learn English the Smart Way

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Season 02 Episode 03 - Happy New Year - Resolutions and English Goal Setting

Of course, it's that time of year again. Are you starting to think about how you can improve your English this year? Have you set any goals for your English learning? Join Rich for a vocab juicy episode on all things hope and dreams, and better still plans. Keep a listen out for where to find the Free Download - SMART English Goals Creation Sheet.. Now Hit PLAY >

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Season 2 Episode 2

What is Boxing Day? And why is it called Boxing Day? Join Rich for a brief end of year chat to find out why we think Boxing Day is called Boxing Day. The Rich English podcast is for people who consider themselves intermediate level English (as a foreign language, ESL) speakers. Listen out for special phrases, idioms and phrasal verbs. Rich also encourages you to take notes and do active recall. What's that? Press PLAY to find out >

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How to Create Good English Habits

It's another solo show today and I bring you a few tips and the science behind changing some of your bad habits in terms of language.  A few things I mention are Charles Duhigg's Cue Routine Reward, how to prepare for a practice conversation, how to recognise which mistakes you're making and what you can do to correct them. Free download from www.richardhill.cz

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Season 1 Episode 4 with Jiří Benedikt

Today's guest is a former employee turned start-up CEO turned freelance innovator, whose training workshops are delivered either in Czech or English. You will hear how enthusiastic Jiří is during our conversation, something which he also produces in his training sessions.  Welcome back to Rich English episode 4.

In this episode we talk about:

Effective v efficient

Being a start-up CEO

Presenting and training in English

Innovation

Lean Six Sigma

Artificial Intelligence and more...

https://www.richardhill.cz

https://www.jiribenedikt.com

https://www.profikem.cz

https://www.skillshare.com/  

https://www.vimvic.cz/

Rich English - Opening the door to a whole world of English content

Certainly Rich English won't be for everyone, but if you're interested in hearing real conversations with people who are entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed or career-minded then it might be for you. My hope is that by interviewing (mainly but not exclusively) non-native English speakers about how they got started in business and their English learning journey, you, the listener will gain insight, knowledge and confidence to carry out your own plans and ideas.  You will also hear me explain some of the industry-specific words and phrases allowing you to better understand the conversation and open the door for you to listen to other similar podcasts and read blogs, websites, books etc. in English.

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Do you struggle to remember new words is it hard for you to recall a new phrase you think you learned just yesterday?  In today's show I'm going to explain to you how you can drastically improve your recall system and implant new vocabulary in your memory, long term.  Welcome back to Rich English episode 3.

So what do you do when you're trying to learn new vocabulary? Well, there are many good ways to help you remember your new words and phrases and traditionally people have written them down folded over the paper, written their other language on the other side. If you're like my dad, you might cut up those pieces of paper and use them like mini flashcards. People these days are practising with an application, something like Duolingo.

In this episode I'll talk to you about:

Hooks

Sketchnotes

Mind-mapping

Visualization

Spaced repetition

So, if you want to find out any more information about any of these things you'll find it on my blog https://www.richardhill.cz

Next week: I will be back with another interview to help you better understand business English terms. OK, take care for now, bye-bye.

Richard.

Rich English

Opening the door to a whole world of English content

Certainly Rich English won't be for everyone, but if you're interested in hearing real conversations with people who are entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed or career-minded then it might be for you. My hope is that by interviewing (mainly but not exclusively) non-native English speakers about how they got started in business and their English learning journey, you, the listener will gain insight, knowledge and confidence to carry out your own plans and ideas.  You will also hear me explain some of the industry-specific words and phrases allowing you to better understand the conversation and open the door for you to listen to other similar podcasts and read blogs, websites, books etc. in English.

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On Rich English today I'm joined by Peter Fodor, the Founder and CEO of App Agent a company that help producers of mobile applications and games to grow their user base and revenues.

In this show we discuss how Peter began learning English and how he continues to improve as well as talk about his business life, starting out with Flow Studio, producing their own mobile games to making the transition into a mobile marketing agency.

In the course of the conversation, you'll hear a few phrases and words I thought you may need explaining. Here they are:

User acquisition and acquiring clients - these are from the verb to acquire meaning - to get. Basically, user acquisition is how you go about finding new users for your application.

Getting into the flow is about becoming used to a particular situation and maybe getting your head in a particular space where you're feeling comfortable and concentrating.

Workflow is the sequence of events or stages that a project might pass through to go from its initial start to completion.

To have many hats really means that you have different roles you might have a role as the owner of a business but at the same time you also might take on a more menial task such as sending out invoices for example. So you could say I have an administrative role or an administrative hat as well as my owner hat.

A worker bee is a person who is doing the detailed work, so it might be somebody in administration or might be somebody in design but worker bees are the people who are carrying out the larger ideas conceived by the boss.

A pool of talent is the number of people who are available in any given sector of business who might be your target to take on as an employee.

Collaborative tools are platforms such as Slack, Trello, Asana or even your Google calendar which is open to other people to view. Basically, any kind of platform where you can work closely with other people in order to further your project.

CV curriculum vitae is a document outlining your education and work/training history and personal interests.

A red flag is a warning.

Check out Peter's company App Agent - www.appagent.com

Link to full transcription - www.richardhill.cz

Suggested app/extension mentioned by Peter - www.grammarly.com

Next week I will be back with a solo show to help you with remembering your new vocabulary. OK,  take care for now, bye-bye.

Richard.

Opening the door to a whole world of English content

Certainly Rich English won't be for everyone, but if you're interested in hearing real conversations with people who are entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed or career-minded then it might be for you. My hope is that by interviewing (mainly but not exclusively) non-native English speakers about how they got started in business and their English learning journey, you, the listener will gain insight, knowledge and confidence to carry out your own plans and ideas.  You will also hear me explain some of the industry-specific words and phrases allowing you to better understand the conversation and open the door for you to listen to other similar podcasts and read blogs, websites, books etc. in English.

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Season 1, Episode 1

with Marketa Horáková from Terapie v Lese (Therepy in the Forest) who provide therapeutic journeys in the countryside, forests and Prague’s parks.

Full episode transcription here

Hi welcome to the first episode of Rich English and a chat with Marketa about her business experience and English learning journey. 

Before we get into the interview with Marketa I thought I should explain one or two phrases that um myself or Marketa to use in the interview just help you better understand

Further afield and it means places away from the specific location you're in. 

Donkey work and heavy lifting meaning the nuts and bolts (there's another phrase for you -  it's the details) - carrying out the actual work. You might have a great idea but then who's going to do it, who's going to do the the data inputting, who's going to build physically the website, who's going to put their fingers to the keyboard and do the actual work? That's the donkey work or the heavy lifting.

Down the road - in the future, at a more advanced stage than now. 

To cover plenty of bases which means to involve everyone or everything in a situation. 

My conversation with Marketa is an interesting one and I'm sure there's a lot to learn so without further ado press play and get on with the showI I hope you enjoy it, I'd love you to leave me a little review and leave me any comments. Of course you can visit my website https://richardhill.cz/ get in touch with me there I'm on Facebook LinkedIn the usual places next week I will be back with an interview with a really interesting guy Peter Fodor who is from a company called App Agent and they help uh companies who are developing applications for mobile phones he his company helps them to market those applications uh that's a really interesting chat and i hope you can join me all right take care for now, bye-bye.

https://www.terapievlese.cz/english

https://richardhill.cz/rich-english-podcast-s01e01/

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