YouSpeak English with Ray Grondin: Recent Episodes
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Let's have fun learning English! Ray Grondin has been teaching English in Oita, Japan for over 10 years. He teaches English conversation, Eiken, TOEIC, and business English. He also teaches online, runs overseas tours, and owns the YouSpeak English school. He has two boys, and loves learning about different cultures and traveling!
Ray's back on the podcast and invites us to think about starting new habits in 2021. Let's learn more English together!
Ray is back after 6 months!
In this episode, Ray talks about his summer and health and encourages us to say positive things to ourselves through self-talk.
Here's the list:
- I am handsome.
- I am beautiful.
- I am healthy.
- I am powerful.
- I am kind.
- I am courageous.
- I am strong.
- I am smart.
- I am loved.
- I am creative.
Speak these over yourself and make up your own!
Have fun speaking English =)
Ray encourages us to find hope and not feel fear during the corona virus. Two ways are to not read too much news and to read the Bible. Ray is also starting new online classes soon so get ready for those!
Ray encourages us to think about our dreams and start making them a reality by taking small steps.
In this podcast, Ray talks about four katakana words (キッチンペーパー、タレント、ホットケーキ、フライドポテト）and gives a quiz to see which ones are Janglish (和製英語) and which ones are normal English. Listen to the quiz and see if you can get them right!
Today we learn how to master the "R" and "L" sound by making a small circle with our mouths for "R" and a big smile for "L"! Ray takes us through several examples so we can practice and also recommends an app he made for iOS called "発音どっち？" ("Hatsuon Docchi?") which can be downloaded from the iOS app store. Happy studying!
Ray started a new diet this year! He talks about it and encourages everyone who wants to get healthier to go for it. Let's do it together!
Ray wishes everyone a Happy New Year from YouSpeak! He also encourages us to stop waiting for our dreams to come true. 2020 is the perfect time to start acting on the dreams God has put in our hearts and to see them come to reality.
Ray visits San Francisco and Silicon valley and gets some miracle rain on the way there!