Learning Through Conversation

Return to the Blue House

The first thing is that the house is no longer blue, it’s white. Erm… only the courtyard is blue...
Jul 04,2015

A room with a difference

For this week's podcastsinenglish.com it's my turn to select three very interesting and different hotels and Jackie to choose which one she'd like to stay in...
Jul 04,2015

What a place to stay!

There are ice hotels in Sweden, castle hotels in Scotland and underground hotels in Tunisia but for this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're talking about three very different hotels...
Jul 04,2015

Fingers and thumbs

Well, I'm trying to learn how to knit, I really want to learn how to knit, but knitting is quite difficult because there's lots going on when you're knitting...
Jul 04,2015

Fearless Felix bonus

He had a very large and a very thin hot-air balloon. So, the capsule went up with the balloon. As the balloon went higher and higher it got bigger and bigger and it took about two and a half hours to get to the correct height...
Jul 03,2015

Fearless Felix

He had a very large and a very thin hot-air balloon. So, the capsule went up with the balloon. As the balloon went higher and higher it got bigger and bigger and it took about two and a half hours to get to the correct height...
Jul 03,2015

Sisters are doin' it for themselves

However, women in the west still don't get equal pay. Here in the UK um... we still only earn 75% of what men earn and, the... you know the problem with child care seems to get worse rather than better and it's becoming increasingly expensive. So much more difficult for women to have a job and kid..
Jul 03,2015

20/20 vision extra

It wasn't laser treatment that you had, they just replaced the lens. You have... you have artificial lenses as it were...
Jul 03,2015

20/20 vision

Cataracts are not a nice thing to have but actually for you they've given you your eyesight back...
Jul 03,2015

Yummy umami

And umami was coined by a Japanese guy and for the Japanese they describe it as 'yummy deliciousness' [Helen laughs]. Now let's... let's go back to the four basic tastes that everyone knows about. There's um... well, there's bitterness.....
Jul 03,2015