So in the Beginner stories, I won’t use too long sentences. So, hopefully for the beginners, this level will be appropriate, but please do tell me if it’s too hard, and I can always add another lower level.Īnother thing that will be simplified is the grammar. I have read that when you are reading in a foreign language, you want something that you understand about 90% of. Lots of words that you will be familiar with. So at the beginners’ level, there will be not too many difficult words. When I say the stories will be simplified, I mean several things.įirst, the vocabulary will be chosen carefully. And, of course, if you are an Advanced learner, well, then you should listen to the Advanced stories! If you are an experienced learner, but you are still not at a high level, you will want to listen to the Intermediate stories. If you’ve been learning for a while, but you’re still not so confident, you will want to listen to the Pre-Intermediate stories. So, if you are still starting on your English learning journey, you will want to listen to the Beginner stories. Beginner, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Advanced. The key thing is that the stories will be simplified. So there should be a nice mixture of familiar stories and new stories for you listeners. I’m going to take famous pieces of literature from around the world, as well as famous myths and legends from around the world, and I’m going to adapt them for this podcast. Some of these will be original short stories, that I have written, and some of them will be adapted short stories. So, every week on this podcast, I will present, I will read out, a short story. So I think fiction is probably the best way to learn a language, and it should be fun as well. Fiction has a really wide range of vocabulary, and there is much more variety of words compared to what you hear when you speak to someone. Also, there is research that says that reading fiction is the best way to improve your vocabulary in a foreign language, and in your own language. This has actually been shown by research. If the resources you’re using to learn a language are interesting, then you’re going to learn more. It is my firm belief that learning a language should be fun. So, I decided to create this podcast, because it would give me a chance to show my writing and to provide resources for people learning English. Or, they’re written by people who aren’t particularly good writers, and they just focus on the language. They are based on non-fiction instead of fiction, and they’re often very serious. In particular, I think a lot of resources are boring. Since becoming a teacher I have been very annoyed with how hard it is to find good resources to use with students. For a long time I’ve wanted to start a podcast but it was difficult to find something that combined all of my interests. I am a language teacher, a language nerd, and a writer. As I said before, my name is Ariel Goodbody. Probably you’re thinking, ‘What is Easy Stories in English?’įirst, let me talk about me. So, welcome to the first episode of Easy Stories in English. This transcript contains the full story, as well as my conversation before it. You can find a transcript of the episode at /laundry. The name of the story is Doggo and Kitty Do Their Laundry. I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show. Welcome to Easy Stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from OK to Good, and from Good to Great. In the podcast I say that Karel Čapek wrote this story, but it was actually written by his brother, Josef Čapek.
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