Learning Through Conversation

India, incredible India extra

So Southern Indian cuisine um… their cooking is… it's predominantly vegetarian, most people in the south of India are vegetarian. It's er… spicy. It um… tends to be hotter. It's not the gravy-oriented food. Um… a particular specialty of Southern India is the andhra meal where you actually..
Jul 02,2015

India, incredible India

I've done a lot of travelling in my life but there’s one country I have not visited and that’s India and I would really, really like to do so...
Jul 02,2015

Going Dutch

I have no idea but I think it’s due to the fact that Amsterdam and other big places are in Holland but er… I come from the south of the Netherlands and we um… although we don’t take offence of it we er… feel quite distinctively different from the people in Holland...
Jul 01,2015

Harvest moon

It's autumn which means the arrival of the Harvest moon and the Hunter's moon. I don't know anything about this but luckily the resident astronomer is here, Richard...
Jul 01,2015

Happiness

The UK Government wants to measure our happiness, or well-being, in order to shape future government policy. So for this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're going to talk about what makes people happy or the criteria that happiness should be judged upon...
Jul 01,2015

Boy George

The future. Considering the future. Um... when you're on your own or when you're with... in a marriage, um... you don't necessarily think about the future as much as you... as you do when you have a child. And I'm very conscious of leaving George with um... a... a future and also um... security and a..
Jul 01,2015

Fire! extra

Well, we thought er… first of all our passports and then our credit cards and money just in case we had to stay… stay away for a few days...
Jul 01,2015

Fire!

It was coming down the valley towards our house but going along the hillside but not coming down because fire has trouble going downhill...
Jul 01,2015

Festival fun

It's the middle of June and many British people are thinking about the highlight of their summer. But it's not going to a seaside holiday, it's going to a festival...
Jun 30,2015

DIY

They’ve left us basically with an empty shell. Erm… all of the major work’s been done: the walls have been plastered, painted, tiles laid, erm… all the plumbing has been installed, electrics. We’ve even got a solar… solar-powered water heater so all the major things are done but now it’..
Jun 30,2015