How to study English as a busy person | The English Podcast — Transcript

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1. 0:00Welcome to the English podcast, a
2. 0:02podcast designed to make English a part
3. 0:06of your life.
4. 0:07My name is Evie from the YouTube channel
5. 0:11English with Evie. And it's great to
6. 0:15have you here today for podcast episode
7. 0:19one.
8. 0:20Podcast episode one. Um, we're making
9. 0:24this podcast today because in my opinion
10. 0:28podcasts are one of the best ways to
11. 0:32improve your English, especially if you
12. 0:36are a busy person, if you are an adult
13. 0:40or a busy student. I swear listening to
14. 0:44podcasts is going to improve your
15. 0:47English so much. I will explain a little
16. 0:51bit of my reasoning later. So, the
17. 0:54reason why I think this later on, but
18. 0:58I first thought that maybe I could
19. 1:00introduce myself. Maybe this is your
20. 1:02first time meeting me or you've seen me
21. 1:05from my YouTube videos, but you don't
22. 1:08really know
23. 1:09who I am or maybe maybe you don't care.
24. 1:13I will explain anyway. I'll try and keep
25. 1:15it keep it very brief. Um, but an
26. 1:19introduction is a good way to warm up
27. 1:23with English, too, because I think most
28. 1:25of us probably could introduce ourselves
29. 1:29in English, so it will be easy easy to
30. 1:32start with. So,
31. 1:34my name is Evie.
32. 1:36I am an English teacher from the UK.
33. 1:40Uh, lots of people ask me where exactly
34. 1:43my accent is from. So, I am from a place
35. 1:48called Cornwall. Um, but I don't really
36. 1:51have a Cornish accent. Um,
37. 1:54I do have a Cornish accent when I speak
38. 1:57to somebody else who has one.
39. 2:01So, if I speak to my family, I might
40. 2:03have more of a Cornish accent, but when
41. 2:06I'm teaching, when I'm making these
42. 2:08videos, uh my accent is more like a very
43. 2:13typical southern English accent.
44. 2:17I've also been told it's a bit London in
45. 2:20some places. My accent is not like
46. 2:22Cockney, obviously, but just like a lot
47. 2:25of how a lot of people speak in London,
48. 2:28uh which makes sense. I lived in London
49. 2:30for 4 years while I was at university.
50. 2:34I did, um my degree at the London School
51. 2:37of Economics in history.
52. 2:40So, anyway, that's why if I sound a
53. 2:43little bit like I'm from London, that is
54. 2:45uh
55. 2:46that's probably why.
56. 2:48As a person, um things that I am
57. 2:51interested in personally, I really love
58. 2:55writing. I'm a big writer. I love
59. 2:58writing when I get time. Uh I like
60. 3:01writing stories, I like writing poetry,
61. 3:04I like writing articles. Anything
62. 3:07creative is just a lot of fun for me,
63. 3:11including like making YouTube videos or
64. 3:14podcasts. I really enjoy that as well.
65. 3:16Anything creative. Um I also I just
66. 3:20really enjoy language in general. So, I
67. 3:25like language learning. I love reading
68. 3:28as well. I don't get a lot of time to
69. 3:30read these days. I think many of us
70. 3:33probably feel that way, right? We don't
71. 3:36read enough. But, I love reading. I want
72. 3:40to read more. I just need more time.
73. 3:43So, I've been listening to to lots of
74. 3:45audiobooks at the moment. I recently
75. 3:49finished one called Daisy Jones and the
76. 3:53which is a book by
77. 3:55I don't know what the author is. Taylor
78. 3:58Who the author is? Taylor Reed,
79. 4:01something like this. It was a good It
80. 4:02was a good book. If you want a random
81. 4:05recommendation,
82. 4:06>> [laughter]
83. 4:07>> Daisy Jones and the Six is is very good.
84. 4:10So, languages, I mentioned that's
85. 4:13something I like. Um
86. 4:14I have only learned one language to a
87. 4:18point where I could have a conversation,
88. 4:21which is Spanish.
89. 4:23I learned Spanish because my boyfriend
90. 4:26is from Spain. So, that's the reason why
91. 4:29I learned that. I started learning that
92. 4:31when I was 20
93. 4:35two years old or 23 years old. So, I'd
94. 4:39never learned a language before that
95. 4:42moment. So, I feel very passionate about
96. 4:45adult language learning, and this is why
97. 4:48I started making videos. Um it's because
98. 4:51I work with adult students. So, I wanted
99. 4:55to create content online that would be
100. 4:58interesting for adult learners.
101. 5:01I think there's a real um
102. 5:04there's a real tendency for people to
103. 5:06patronize adult learners a little bit,
104. 5:09especially with languages. They say,
105. 5:12"Ah, you know, if you're an adult
106. 5:15learner, then watch um
107. 5:17Peppa Pig."
108. 5:19You know, that stupid kids cartoon. And
109. 5:22honestly,
110. 5:23are you going to make a 40-year-old man
111. 5:26watch Peppa Pig?
112. 5:28It's so boring.
113. 5:31And so many like so much of learning a
114. 5:33language is being interested. You need
115. 5:35to really care because you are going to
116. 5:38study that language for years, like
117. 5:42maybe forever.
118. 5:43And I tell you now, if you try and learn
119. 5:46a language by watching Peppa Pig,
120. 5:50maybe you love Peppa Pig, I don't know,
121. 5:52but most people will be bored out of
122. 5:56their minds. They will be bored out of
123. 5:58their minds and they are not going to
124. 6:00study English because why why would you
125. 6:02work for
126. 6:0510 hours, work 10 hours, come back home,
127. 6:08you know,
128. 6:09do house chores and then watch Peppa
129. 6:11Pig? It's not going to happen.
130. 6:15Well, maybe it is. If you've done that,
131. 6:17honestly,
132. 6:18please tell me how that was.
133. 6:20Because you are another level of
134. 6:23motivated if you can do that, but I I
135. 6:26could not do that, so
136. 6:28that's why I I started this channel.
137. 6:30It's to do with like language learning,
138. 6:33languages,
139. 6:35adult education.
140. 6:37It's kind of my thing. I'm into it. I
141. 6:38like it.
142. 6:39Um
143. 6:41Outside of languages, reading and
144. 6:44writing, maybe something less practical
145. 6:48that I enjoy. I love pop stars. I've
146. 6:52always loved pop stars, but I love girl
147. 6:54pop stars. So, I love like Britney
148. 6:57Spears in the 2000s. I loved her.
149. 7:01Well, I was like a child, but
150. 7:03I love her now. I look back on those
151. 7:05clips and I love Britney Spears. I love
152. 7:08like modern-day pop stars like um Cat's
153. 7:13Eye. There's a girl group, like a pop
154. 7:15group, called Cat's Eye. I don't like
155. 7:17their music, but I just like them, the
156. 7:20people, the girls. Um
157. 7:23I like Who else do I like?
158. 7:26I really like Chappell Roan, for
159. 7:28example, another great pop star who has
160. 7:31come up recently, or Sabrina Carpenter.
161. 7:34I really like her.
162. 7:36This actually reminds me that um
163. 7:38some people have been commenting in my
164. 7:41comment section saying that I look like
165. 7:44Avril Lavigne.
166. 7:45>> [laughter]
167. 7:46>> I'm laughing um because if you are
168. 7:49listening to this on Spotify,
169. 7:52uh I don't look like Avril Lavigne.
170. 7:54>> [laughter]
171. 7:55>> She's the She's not a pop star. She's a
172. 7:58Does that count as rock rock pop? Uh
173. 8:01from like the 2010s.
174. 8:03And we look we don't look alike in my
175. 8:05opinion. I think we're both just like
176. 8:08white women with with blonde hair. Maybe
177. 8:12you think I look like Avril Lavigne. I
178. 8:13love that. It's a great like it's a huge
179. 8:15compliment cuz I think she's iconic.
180. 8:19She's iconic, but I don't look like
181. 8:22Avril Lavigne. Or maybe I do. Maybe I do
182. 8:24and I just don't
183. 8:26I don't see it.
184. 8:28Um
185. 8:29Anyway, couple things I dislike or maybe
186. 8:32one maybe two Yeah, one or two things I
187. 8:34dislike. Um I hate running.
188. 8:37I hate running, but I go running
189. 8:40because I work a desk job. So, I spend
190. 8:43every single day
191. 8:44sat down at my desk.
192. 8:48And that sucks. So, like I get literally
193. 8:50like
194. 8:51what maybe 1,000 steps a day.
195. 8:55That's not okay.
196. 8:58Honestly, that's not okay. You need to
197. 9:01walk more than 1,000 steps a day. So, I
198. 9:05sometimes go running.
199. 9:07I don't run very far and I don't run
200. 9:10very fast. And sometimes I walk.
201. 9:13Actually, I walk a lot of it.
202. 9:16>> [laughter]
203. 9:16>> But I still hate it. Um so, I hate
204. 9:18running. I also hate meat. So, I hate
205. 9:23beef, which is from a cow. I hate pork,
206. 9:26which comes from pigs. I hate chicken,
207. 9:29which comes from chickens.
208. 9:31Uh because I am a vegetarian. So, I
209. 9:34don't eat meat. I don't eat fish, um I
210. 9:38don't eat shellfish either, like crabs
211. 9:40or lobster or shrimp. Um I don't eat any
212. 9:44of it.
213. 9:46But, I do eat um eggs and cheese because
214. 9:50I'm a vegetarian, not a vegan. I
215. 9:53actually I eat a lot of cheese, which
216. 9:56I probably should give up uh those
217. 9:59things, but I really like eating cheese.
218. 10:01So, I haven't done that.
219. 10:04Anyway, maybe that's enough about me. Um
220. 10:07I wanted to convince you that this
221. 10:10podcast is something that you should
222. 10:13listen to, something you should engage
223. 10:15with. It's something that should become
224. 10:17a part of your English study routine.
225. 10:20If you can understand me right now,
226. 10:24honestly, your level of English is very
227. 10:28good. It's very good because especially
228. 10:31listening to something with no prompts,
229. 10:35with no pictures to help you understand
230. 10:38the meaning, um that's quite difficult
231. 10:41to do. It's very difficult just to
232. 10:43listen.
233. 10:44And listening to a podcast is something
234. 10:48that you unlock. It's something that
235. 10:51you're able to do usually when you are
236. 10:54around intermediate in a language. So,
237. 10:57when you have an intermediate level,
238. 11:01then you can understand podcasts. And I
239. 11:04would say this is a game changer.
240. 11:08It's a game changer.
241. 11:10Why is it a game changer? It's a game
242. 11:12changer because it means that you can
243. 11:15now study passively.
244. 11:18So, you can study without staring at the
245. 11:22screen or focusing 100%
246. 11:26on a video. Instead, it means that you
247. 11:29can now study English while you are
248. 11:32doing other things. For example, you can
249. 11:35listen to English while you commute to
250. 11:38work, you can listen to English while
251. 11:41you are on the train, while you are
252. 11:43driving, while you are doing dishes.
253. 11:46And if you are an adult who does not
254. 11:50have a lot of time in the evenings to
255. 11:52listen to
256. 11:54Peppa Pig or whatever stupid thing you
257. 11:57have to watch. Um
258. 12:00It means that you can study while
259. 12:02getting something else done.
260. 12:06And at least for me, with Spanish, the
261. 12:09moment that I could understand podcasts,
262. 12:12it changed
263. 12:14it changed my level. Because I went from
264. 12:17studying Spanish or listening to Spanish
265. 12:19for maybe one or two hours a day. I was
266. 12:24pretty intense, to be honest.
267. 12:26To, you know, three or sometimes even
268. 12:29four hours a day, because when I was
269. 12:32walking, I had a podcast on in Spanish.
270. 12:35Or when I was cleaning my bedroom, I
271. 12:38would have a podcast on in Spanish. It
272. 12:41literally meant that I was engaging with
273. 12:45the language so much more. And I was
274. 12:48really training my ear. I was training
275. 12:52my ear to understand just the noises, no
276. 12:56help from pictures or actions.
277. 13:00That's why it's so difficult. So, that's
278. 13:02why podcasts usually come or um that's
279. 13:07why podcasts usually come when you are
280. 13:10at an intermediate level, because you
281. 13:13are only relying on what you can
282. 13:15understand with your ear.
283. 13:19I also want you to understand, because
284. 13:23if you are only listening to this while
285. 13:26you do something else.
286. 13:28My videos might be too easy for you, but
287. 13:32focusing on the podcast might feel more
288. 13:36difficult. This is just from personal
289. 13:39experience, but I find that if I'm
290. 13:43driving, I find it more difficult to
291. 13:46understand content that usually I
292. 13:49understand no problem. I usually need
293. 13:52something easier because my brain is
294. 13:54having to focus on two different things.
295. 13:56So, if you have a good level of English
296. 13:59or maybe you understand my videos, but
297. 14:02now this podcast feels difficult, don't
298. 14:06worry. That's completely normal. Um and
299. 14:09just trust that with time, it will get
300. 14:13easier. It's going to get easier.
301. 14:15This just leaves me to maybe explain a
302. 14:18little bit what this podcast will be
303. 14:21like.
304. 14:22Uh
305. 14:23I don't know, really. I haven't got a
306. 14:26very specific structure. So, feel free
307. 14:30to comment if there is something in
308. 14:32particular that you would like to see.
309. 14:35This is not going to be a weekly podcast
310. 14:38yet. Maybe by the time you listen to
311. 14:41this, I have made it weekly, but for now
312. 14:44it's going to be
313. 14:46as and when, we say. It's going to be as
314. 14:49and when. That means it's going to be
315. 14:52whenever I have the time. Um for
316. 14:55example, you would say
317. 14:57I go running as and when. It means I go
318. 15:00running whenever I can. It's not a
319. 15:02priority, it's just something I do when
320. 15:05I'm able to. So, this podcast will be
321. 15:08uploaded as and when.
322. 15:10Uh but hopefully this was enjoyable for
323. 15:13you and maybe a little bit of a
324. 15:15challenge.
325. 15:17But I encourage you to engage with the
326. 15:20podcast, to listen to multiple episodes
327. 15:23and if you do not listen to podcasts
328. 15:26already,
329. 15:27hopefully I have convinced you to make
330. 15:30it a part of your routine.
331. 15:32Um, but thank you very, very much for
332. 15:35listening
333. 15:36and I will see you in the next episode
334. 15:39which should already be up.
335. 15:43See you then.