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Living the Polyglot Lifestyle at Home and Abroad
Welcome to this new interview series that I'm calling "interesting people I met in Berlin". Let me explain. Over the next few weeks, I'll be sharing interviews I did with the cool people I met at the Language Influencer Summit in Berlin in March. So far,...
How to Learn English with Short Movies
Hello Leo Listeners and welcome to an interview with a fellow English teacher, Alexandra Kapinya from Visual English School. I’ve brought Alexandra on because she’s a fellow movie lover. And she’s also been living abroad since the age of 19! As I love to share stories...
How I Help English Learners Improve Their Listening Skills
Like I’ve mentioned many times before, I’m the online English listening teacher. I help English learners who love movies and TV shows break free from subtitles so they can fall back in love with their favourite series or film. And better understand native speakers in...
The Reason Why Passive Listening Is A Waste Of Your Time
At some point you’ve heard these pieces of advice: Just listen to as much English as you possibly can - practice makes perfect! Learn as many phrasal verbs, idioms and SLANG as possible Don’t use the subtitles - you’ll just be reading, not listening I get...
5 ways to have listening fun in the sun
Hello there Leo Listeners. It's Cara here from Leo Listening, where I help advanced English learners fall back in love with their favourite films and series by helping them break free from the subtitles. So, as it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere at...
How to make the most of this summer’s top listening tool
I’m part of the Amazon EU partner programme. This blog post contains affiliate links to Audible, which enables sites like mine to receive a commission through the links. Clicking is totally free for you but helps support my work. Thank you. The Audible...
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