Lily Kreitinger shares how she went from living in Mexico City to moving to the United States, and how she became fluent in English in the process. 

Lily Kreitinger: How she became fluent in English, and what you can learn from her story.

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English conversation topics - Hotel Check-in
Learn English online using these simple English conversation topics.
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In this episode of the Learning English Essentials Podcast, I share a simple English conversation you can use immediately to help you learn English online quickly and without overwhelm.
 
This English conversation is about checking into a hotel.
 
Use these useful English conversation topics to learn English online and get your speaking and listening practice done quickly and easily. These English conversation topics are designed to be simple, useful and practical so you get more out of your online English learning.
 
Listen to this English conversation to help improve your English. 

I hope you enjoy this episode.
 
Any questions or suggestions for other English conversation topics leave them in the comments below.
 
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Learning English Essentials Podcast - Hotel Check - In

English conversation topics - Hotel Check-out
Learn English online using these simple English conversation topics.
http://www.learningenglishessentials.com/specials/english-conversation-practice
 
In this episode of the Learning English Essentials Podcast, I share a simple English conversation you can use immediately to help you learn English online quickly and without overwhelm.
 
This English conversation is about checking out of a hotel.
 
Use these useful English conversation topics to learn English online and get your speaking and listening practice done quickly and easily. These English conversation topics are designed to be simple, useful and practical so you get more out of your online English learning.
 
Listen to this English conversation to help improve your English. 

I hope you enjoy this episode.
 
Any questions or suggestions for other English conversation topics leave them in the comments below.
 
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For more English conversations SUBSCRIBE to my podcast:
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English Consultant
 
Business English
Conversational English
 
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Visit my website: http://www.learningenglishessentials.com
 
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Gonna and Gotta

In informal English conversation, we often use shorter, versions of common word combinations.

One of the most common is ‘gonna’ - short for ‘going to’.

When we say the words ‘going to’ very quickly, they run together and sound like ‘gonna’.

So ‘Are you going to wash the car today?’ becomes:
B: ‘Are you gonna wash the car today?’

And ‘We are going to go home for dinner.’ becomes:
‘We’re gonna go home for dinner.’

We also shorten ‘got to’ so it sounds more like ‘gotta.’
Here, ‘got to’ means ‘have to’ or ‘must’:

So ‘I have got to wash the car today,’ becomes:
‘I’ve gotta wash the car today.’

And ‘I have got to go home for dinner,’ becomes:
‘I’ve gotta go home for dinner.’

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Gonna and Gotta

In today's episode I’m talking to one of the founders and teachers of Learn Real English - Kristin Dodds.

Read the show notes, full transcript & join the discussion at: englishthesmartway.com/session6

Kristin has more than 20 years of experience teaching English to speakers of other languages.  She has taught English in South Korea, Thailand and Japan, as well as in the United States.  She has a CELTA certificate, as well as a Master’s degree in TESOL, which stands for Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages.

Kristin Dodds with AJ Hoge and Joe Weiss run together Learn Real English which helps students around the world becoming fluent and confident English speakers.

The Real English Conversation Lessons - which is the name of the course - teaches you English without focusing on grammar rules. Instead you listen to real English conversations of native English speakers. This way you will learn grammar subconsciously without even realising it.

In the first part of our interview Kristin is sharing with us her challenging first experience in teaching English in South Korea and her soon realisation that studying grammar to succeed in English isn’t effective at all. Later in the interview Kristin talks about acquiring language in the most natural way - by listening a lot - which is actually very similar to the way how children learn language.

We also talk about how opening up to culture of a country can help us tremendously with our language learning. Kristin then shares with us the success story of her Thai friend, her number one tip for English learners, and she also talks about the benefits of free voluntary reading.

Listen to and enjoy today's episode with Kristin Dodds from Learn Real English.

In the session you will learn
- How was Kristin’s first experience in teaching English in Korea and Georgia (9:01)
- How Kristin realised that teaching English using textbooks isn’t effective (14:51, 15:30)
- What we can learn from the research of Stephen Krashen and James Asher (15:30)
- How you can acquire language as a child in the most natural way (15:30)
- The success story of Kristin’s friend from Thailand (21:45)
- How can Free voluntary reading improve our English - not just reading skills (26:01)
- How opening yourself up to culture of a country can help you tremendously with your language learning (28:15)
- What to do when your brain wants to translate from your native language to English instead of directly thinking in English (33:30)
- Kristin’s number one tip for English learners around the world (36:32)
Enjoy! :)

Read the show notes, full transcript & join the discussion at: englishthesmartway.com/session6

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ETSW 6: Stop studying grammar - focus on listening! Interview with Kristin Dodds, Learn Real English

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