Figure Out English: Recent Episodes

Daria Storozhilova

Bi-weekly English lessons to help you improve your understanding and fluency in English. Learn collocations and vocabulary secrets, get expert teacher advice, and just have fun learning English!

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Let's discuss some useful words for describing people's personality. I am teaching you 10 positive character adjectives in this episode.

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Today's episode is about grammar. Let's learn 3 useful hacks to help you with asking questions in English.

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This episode is the second part of the lesson about collocations with WORK. You will learn how to use WORK as a verb and which phrasal verbs it forms.
Collocations dictionary I recommend: http://www.ozdic.com/

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Learn collocations with the word WORK. In the first part of this episode, you will learn how to use WORK as a noun.
Collocations dictionary I recommend: http://www.ozdic.com/

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How good is your English? Learn useful phrases for talking about your language skills in everyday life and career.

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Today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast is about grammar and vocabulary at the same time. I am showing you how not to confuse tricky words like HARD and HARDLY, HIGH and HIGHLY, and others like them. Improve your vocabulary with me!

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How to say you don't have much time and make other people move faster? Learn these simple conversation phrases to sound more natural in English.

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Let's learn to avoid some of the most common prepositions mistakes. Great help for your speaking!
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What do you want to achieve this year? Let's learn idioms and set phrases you can use to talk about your dreams and ambitions.
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How to use Verb Patterns for your New Year Resolutions https://www.stordar.com/figure-out-english-verb-patterns-new-year-resolutions/

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Let's learn phrasal verbs about using the phone in English. You will need them for everyday conversations all the time. Do you know and use all of them?

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In this episode, I am talking about the difference between pronunciation and accent and why it is important for you when learning English. Please share the episode with friends if you like it!

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We are thinking over the question 'Is English difficult to learn?' You will know about levels of language proficiency, principles of language complexity and a lot more!
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We are working with your speaking skills in the today's episode. Learn phrases to express positive emotions in your everyday conversations in English.

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Today's episode of 'Figure Out English' is teaching you how to write emails in English easily and effectively.

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Let's celebrate the beginning of a new school year! I am teaching you today set phrases, phrasal verbs, and idioms about learning.

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Preparing for the job interview in English? Want to learn more phrases on how to talk about your skills? Listen to this episode of 'Figure Out English' and improve your business vocabulary.
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Let's continue expanding your vocabulary! Today we are learning collocations and synonyms for the word 'difficult'.
The collocations dictionary I recommend: http://www.ozdic.com/.

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Let's learn 10 most common phrasal verbs in English speaking. Improve your fluency in English with the correct usage of phrasal verbs.

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10 Easy TV series to Learn English - Read on my blog https://www.stordar.com/10-easy-tv-series-to-learn-english/

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Let's talk about ways to use 'have' in everyday English (and it's not about owning something). Listen to the episode now!

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Let's learn more conversational phrases in English. In this episode, I am telling you about 3 different ways of saying 'I don't know' in English.

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Let's continue the holiday topic! In the today's episode of 'Figure Out English', I am teaching you phrasal verbs about travel.
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How to prepare your English for travel? Be ready for your holiday abroad with the today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast. I am giving some tips and recommending great resources for a quick English 'brush-up'.
Please listen and let me know what you think!


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Let's learn how to use 'get' in a new episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast. I will teach you 6 meanings the verb 'get' has and how to use them in everyday English. This will help you speak English more fluently and more authentically.


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In our new course 'Say it right!', I am teaching you all the basic reading rules which you need for pronouncing the most words in English without problems. Here are some major ones:

1) Don't accentuate (=pronounce clearly) the final suffixes and unstressed syllables in long words.
'-ous' (sounds like /es/) various, serious, nervous, obvious, previous, dangerous
'-tion' (sounds like /shin/ not /shon) information, section, decision, population, association, organization, position, commission
'-ture' (sounds like /che/) future, feature, creature, moisture, picture
'-ate' (sounds like /et/ not /eit/) corporate, desperate, private, separate, adequate
'-able' (sounds like /ebl/ not /eible/) questionable, reliable, doable

2) Combinations of vowels e/i/y/u with 'r' in the middle of words - they all sound the same /ɜː/ like in 'girl.
All these words will sound the same: girl, term, turn, burn, spur, Myrtie, shirt, bird, heard, early, thirsty, skirt, fur, dirty, curse, work

3) You need to remember words with silent letters (=letters which are written but not pronounced).
Some of them: (letters in red are not pronounced)
honest, hour, ghost
knife, knot, knee, knitting, knock
autumn, damn, column
bomb, numb, climb, lamb, doubt, plumber, debt
resign, design, foreigner
guest, guess, colleague, guilty, tongue, biscuit
almond, palm, calf, half, talk, walk
write, wrap, wrist, wren, wrong

Make sure you pronounce all these words right. You can check yourself in this audio guide here
We have recorded a video course covering the most important spelling/reading/pronunciation rules in English so that you could work with the videos at your own pace.
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Today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast is about vocabulary. I am giving you a couple of tips on how to expand your vocabulary in English and how to remember words better, without losing them in your passive memory. Learn synonyms for the word 'beautiful' when describing someone's appearance and use them in your speaking.


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Learn how to ask for help with today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast. I am teaching you set expressions you can use to: a) ask somebody to help you, b) say 'thank you', c) respond to other people's 'thank you'.


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Welcome to episode 19 of the 'Figure Out English' podcast. Today I will teach you how to talk about probability using 'likely'.


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Today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast is about vocabulary. I am showing you how to use 'like' in 2 different everyday contexts.


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This episode was recorded on December 23d, 2017.
Today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast is about grammar. I am showing you how to make plans and resolutions correctly. I talk about how verbs are used together in English, so-called verb patterns.


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Learn how to give recommendations and advice about places to visit, food, books and so on. I am teaching you set expressions you can use in everyday conversations.


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Today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast is about grammar. I am showing you how not to get confused about which prepositions to use after words like 'go', 'move', 'fly' and 'arrive' (which is different from other verbs!).


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Listen to my answer to the question: How to remember vocabulary in English.


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Learn 3 phrases which you can't do without when speaking English. We learn to use 'it depends', 'it doesn't matter', and 'it takes' in the today's episode.


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It seems easy to discuss the weather in English, but we, English learners, face a couple of difficulties with impersonal structures we use to talk about this topic. Let's figure out how to speak about the weather correctly.


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Today we are practising pronunciation of regular verbs in English. When we add the ending 'ed' to the verb to talk about the past actions, you can pronounce it in 3 different ways. Learn a simple rule and practise with me in the today's episode.


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We are practising today a very handy structure which can help you describe your skills, your strengths and weaknesses without getting lost in English modal verbs.


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Today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast is telling what you like doing. We will train the most used expressions which will help you sound natural when talking about preferences.


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Today's episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast is about grammar. I am showing you how to easily make up comparative forms of adjectives in English.


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This is another episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast with communication tips. Today we are talking about travelling. Let's revise basic words and phrases you might use when communicating to the host in your private holiday accommodation (like Airbnb or Couchsurfing websites).


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This is another episode of 'Figure Out English' with communication tips. I am teaching you a way to apologise and avoid conflict in confusing situations. Do you know that the verb 'mean' has two meanings? Learn about them with me!
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This is another episode of 'Figure Out English' with communication tips. I am teaching you two ways to ask about a price of something: 'How much is it?' and 'How much does it cost?'. Listen for explanation of the structures and how to use them the right way.
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You don't need to know complex grammar to communicate. Try to learn some basic patterns to make standard phrases easily. Today I will show you how to ask many questions based on 1 simple pattern. It's a great way to ask questions and not to get lost!

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How do you say 'hi' in English? Is 'How do you do' a good phrase to use? I will answer this question in a new podcast episode today.

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Let’s talk about your focus a bit. I mean if you have no understanding of how you will use the language, you can’t learn it. You just can’t. There are many stories when we just get lost in the process or grammar and vocabulary. We search for the best method or even for a miracle. There is something which will help us bring all this mess to some order. How do other people speak English, but I don’t, after all these years? The secret is in not in the method, but in the right focus and procedure. So, what’s your level of expectations? What are you learning to do in English?

And what’s my focus? In this course, you will hear many short lessons helping you develop your confidence in English on a basic communication level. I will be making episodes which could help people who travel, show start living in a foreign country (not necessarily English speaking country) and needs English for simple everyday tasks and also for people who want to use English for their business but still unsure their English is good enough. All these people know something but they have some gaps and questions. They can't express themselves freely, and they know some words but they don’t know when to use them. They understand some English but often get lost when people speak a lot and fast. So, we will be completing the gaps and developing a solid base of English to use in the future. We will figure out how to use English the right way.

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In communication, we often want to say that something is the same for us, show we have something in common. We can simply say 'Me too' or 'Me neither'. There are also other structures we can use, and you will learn them from this podcast episode. Practice with me and repeat all the structures aloud to use them in your speaking.

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This is a new episode of 'Figure Out English' podcast for English learners.

Today we will learn how to deal with the situation if you don't understand something.
Don’t be afraid to ask people to repeat what they said or what they meant. There is nothing shameful about this situation. There are many factors which can interfere with understanding: noise, stress, unclear idea, different background, thinking about something else, a bad day… many of them! It’s not always about your bad English. Don’t start with blaming yourself immediately! There is no problem with asking to repeat. Not at all!

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Hello everybody. This is me, Daria Storozhilova, and this is my new podcast for English learners. This will be a series of short episodes, about 5 minutes long going live on weekdays: five days a week. Subscribe on figureoutenglish.com to get all the episodes to your inbox.

In this podcast, I want to help you stop feeling lost in English. We will discuss set expressions you need to use to sound natural in English. We will fix vocabulary and pronunciation problems. And we will help you avoid stupid mistakes in English and say exactly what you want to say. So, this podcast will help you figure out how to speak English well.

Please let me know about questions you have about English, and I will make an episode about them.

Please visit figureoutenglish.com for all podcast episodes and free downloads with transcripts and learning notes. Don’t forget to share and comment! See you inside!

Enjoy listening!