&nbsp;&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp; 2024! Visit:&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt; Today, we will learn about a famous&nbsp;coffee&nbsp;company in the&nbsp;USA&nbsp;called&nbsp;Starbucks. Have you ever seen a&nbsp;Starbucks coffee shop? They are all over the world! Let’s discover how&nbsp;Starbucks&nbsp;started and grew to be so popular. What is Starbucks? Starbucks is a company that sells coffee and other drinks. It started in the USA, and&nbsp;now&nbsp;there are Starbucks coffee shops in many countries worldwide. For more episodes, and the full text, visit&nbsp;

#303 Talking about Coffee in English - Starbucks

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp;&nbsp;Course 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt; Today I will talk about one of the wealthiest people in the world. His name is .&nbsp;And you will practice your English speaking with a mini-story. Born in 1930 in Nebraska, Buffet is a fascinating character because of his inspiring story. As a child, showed interest in stocks. He was writing stock prices on the board in his father's office. His father was a stockbroker and future congressman. For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp; &nbsp;

#082 English Money Vocabulary - Warren Buffett

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp;&nbsp;Course 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt; I'm here to tell you to&nbsp;stop using the word "look"&nbsp;repeatedly. There are many more alternatives, and depending on the context, I will help you to choose the right one.  This lesson is intended to help you enrich your vocabulary and sound more like a native English speaker.&nbsp; And with a mini-story, you will practice your English speaking.  But first, I would like to share with you a comment on Facebook from one of my students called Fernando Romero:&nbsp; "Hello Georgiana, I'm fascinated by your method. I have improved my spoken English. Your podcasts are incredible... congratulations. Thank you!"&nbsp; For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp;

#108 Stop using the word Look - part#1

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp;&nbsp;Course 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt;  In this episode, let’s find out if you are&nbsp;too old to learn English? Is it too late to learn a language? Is it possible to learn English as an adult? I'm going to answer these questions.  Some time ago, a 95-year-old student from Greece emailed me. He wanted to tell me how my method helped him learn English. He is learning English and listens to this podcast. The truth is that I admire people who don't make excuses. And that's what inspired me to do this episode. For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp;

#175 Are you too old to learn English?

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp;&nbsp;Course 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt;  In this episode, I'll learn some new&nbsp;tongue&nbsp;twisters&nbsp;in English to help you with your English pronunciation. And with a&nbsp;mini-story, you will improve your fluency. A mini-story is very simple but very powerful. I ask easy questions on purpose so that you can&nbsp;simulate a conversation. It's like talking with another person in English.  For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp;

#178 English Pronunciation Practice with Tongue Twisters

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp;&nbsp;Course 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt;  You're going to learn vocabulary about&nbsp;flaws. That is&nbsp;the negative characteristic&nbsp;of people. &nbsp;In the second part, we will practice speaking with a fun mini-story of questions and answers.  In a couple of previous episodes, you learned vocabulary related to&nbsp;virtues. You know, those&nbsp;good characteristics&nbsp;of people. As you know, you and I are full of virtues, but today we're going to talk about&nbsp;negative characteristics&nbsp;that others have, not us, of course. Although there are many flaws, I will focus on just a few. I have made a selection to discuss them below. For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp;

#203 Flaws in English Stinginess, Indifference, Intransigence, Gossip

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp;&nbsp;Course 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt; Today, we will talk about a topic that I’m sure you will find very useful. I will talk about the&nbsp;best online English dictionaries. And with a mini-story, you will practice your English fluency. We have all used an English dictionary at one time or another. And I think it was easier before the Internet. Everyone had a single dictionary at home and consulted it in paper format. And then, for a short time, people used dictionaries on their computers. For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp; &nbsp;

206 Best Online English Dicionaries

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp;&nbsp;Course 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt; In this episode, let's take a look at the most common New Year's resolutions. Then you will practice your English fluency with a mini-story. It’s curious how the passage of time is perceived according to age. Young people don't think much about it. Middle-aged people think about the things they still want to achieve and realize that they have less and less time.&nbsp; Don't worry; I won't get too philosophical in this lesson.&nbsp; :) I’ll go ahead and talk about New Year's resolutions. For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp;

#235 New Year’s Resolutions 2023

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp;&nbsp;Course 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt; Merry Christmas, everyone! I’m Georgiana, your English teacher, and my mission is to help you speak English fluently. And if you want to help me,&nbsp;share&nbsp;the podcast with your friends and family. And today, I will talk about Christmas Markets in New York. And with a fun mini-story, you will improve your speaking. New York’s holiday markets often include ice skating, twinkling lights, great food vendors, and fun holiday activities.&nbsp; For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp;

#234 Christmas Markets in New York 2022

&gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp; 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt; Are you interested in becoming a permanent resident of the U.S.? Today, I will discuss how to obtain a Permanent Resident Card, commonly called a&nbsp;green card.&nbsp;This&nbsp;document&nbsp;allows you to&nbsp;live and work in the U.S. indefinitely.&nbsp; A "green card" is a plastic card with the individual's biographic information, photo, fingerprint, and expiration date issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Permanent Resident Card is&nbsp;valid for ten years and must be renewed.&nbsp; For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp; &nbsp;

#248 Obtaining a Green Card: Becoming a U.S. Permanent Resident

Today, we are going to talk about idioms and specific vocabulary related to movies in English. &gt;&gt; Get my new course: The&nbsp; 2024! Visit&nbsp; and get the course! &lt;&lt; And with a mini-story, you are going to improve your fluency. I’ll tell you a story while asking you many questions that you have to answer right away. It’s like talking to another person in English. &nbsp; For more episodes and the full text, visit&nbsp; &nbsp;

#290 Movie Idioms in English

Hi, I’m Georgiana — creator of the Speak English Now podcast and founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com.

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Since 2011, I’ve been teaching English using proven techniques like mini-stories and point-of-view lessons — methods that help you speak naturally, without memorizing grammar rules or relying on textbooks.

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#175 Are you too old to learn English?

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