English Conversation Club podcast

In this episode, Fluency Club Leader Matthew and I talk about:

• how we define "entrepreneur"
• the qualities necessary to be a good entrepreneur
• if employees can be considered entrepreneurs

The extra mile (useful English vocabulary you'll hear in the podcast):

• to open up a shop = to open a shop. The extra preposition "up" is a common feature of spoken English
• to be willing to take risks = to accept and be prepared to take risks
• to scratch that itch = to provide a solution to a problem that someone has

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In this episode, Fluency Club Leader Cara and I talk about:

• addiction to email, and how we manage it
• why addiction to email & social media is like addiction to drugs & alcohol
• tips for managing email "emergencies" from colleagues & clients

The extra mile (useful English vocabulary you'll hear in the podcast):

• to get addicting = to become addicting. Ex. Email can get addicting. = Email can become addicting
• the hassle = a situation that is annoying because it involves doing something difficult or complicated that needs a lot of effort
• to get cracked out = to become extremely tired and mentally dazed due to excessive consumption of something that is addictive

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Welcome to the Faster Fluency Conversation Club podcast, for busy professionals who want to become fluent in English faster, have more confidence speaking English, and who want to connect with other professionals around the world to have fun doing it.

I’m Christina, from the popular YouTube channel Speak English with Christina. And with my team of Expert Teachers Cara, Matthew, Kristina, and Trisha, we want to help you become fluent faster, and feel more confident speaking English, both with native and non-native speakers.
After all, if you work in an international context, you need to speak good English, but also communicate well with people who have different accents, different levels of English, and different work cultures.

In the Faster Fluency Conversation Club podcast, you’ll hear conversations between my teachers and me, where we talk about all sorts of things, on both everyday and business topics.
It’s all in English, and the conversations are unscripted and spontaneous, to help you train your ear to understand real spoken English, the way we really speak it in conversations.

You’ll hear conversations on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to the environment, cultural differences and tips for learning English, but also more everyday topics like talking about your family, what you did during the weekend, places to visit in your country, and even what you had for breakfast.
In other words, the kinds of topics that come up in your everyday conversations with your clients and colleagues around the world

We want to give you the comprehension skills, the vocabulary, the speaking practice, and especially, the confidence, to connect with professionals around the world and advance your career in English.

The Faster Fluency Conversation Club Podcast is the main audio resource for our Faster Fluency Conversation Club. And if you’re wondering what that is, well, keep listening!

It’s our fluency development program, that helps you become more confident speaking English with professionals from around the world. You improve your vocabulary, listening comprehension, conversation skills, and confidence speaking with other Club members, and your Fluency Club leaders.
Each week, I send you audio resources, including this podcast, and the transcript, plus vocabulary activities and interesting articles curated from the internet to prepare you to participate in the conversation sessions, which happen 4 times a week.

If you want more details on the Faster Fluency Conversation Club, please visit https://mybusinessenglishcourses.com/faster-fluency-conversation-club/join-now
And in the meantime, look for our first podcast episode, which will be available here very soon! I’m really excited to launch this podcast for you, with the Expert Teachers of Speak English with Christina, and we hope that you’ll love it!

In this episode, Matthew and Karyn talk about:

• what we do in Feedback Week
• why we do Feedback Week
• positive and negative feedback they received
  

The extra mile (useful English vocabulary you'll hear in the podcast):

• oxymoron = a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase
• constructive criticism = non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement
• intention = the aim or objective of a course of action
  

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Matthew (00:06):

Hello everyone, this is Matthew, not Christina. And uh, today I am here with Karyn. Karyn, how are you doing?

Karyn (00:20):

I am not Christina also. I'm doing great. How are you doing, Matthew?

Matthew (00:25):

Yeah, doing good. Doing good. So yeah, a little bit different here for the listeners. Christina is like, yeah, I think you guys can record the podcast this week. We're like, yeah, sure, we can do it. So, uh, yeah, we'll see how it goes. Um, yeah, so this week we are talking about a feedback week. So, um, in FFCC we do feedback week once or twice a year, and it is a way for FFCC members to, um, give us some feedback and tell us how we are doing. And, um, you know, we'd like to hear the feedback because we want to improve the FFCC experience. We wanna know your thoughts and how you feel, um, about your progress or how FFCC is going in general. And then of course, we give you feedback as well. Um, I'm sure you know, everybody who is studying a language wants to know, Hey, am I improving? I don't know if I'm improving. Most people say, I don't think I'm improving. Um, but I think us teachers see the improvement that, um, English learners are making. Wouldn't you agree, Karyn?

(continues...)

In this episode, Christina and Kristina talk about:

• grocery shopping in the US
• shopping at supercenters
• buying in bulk

The extra mile (useful English vocabulary you'll hear in the podcast):

• bulk= a large amount
• a bunch of [something] = a lot of [something]
• to unload= to remove something (usually from a truck/car)

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