RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English
Welcome to the RealLife English podcast! For over 10 years, RealLife English has helped millions of learners just like you from virtually every country to go beyond the classroom and live, speak and master English in the Real World. We’ve been able to do this through our unique method: The RealLife Way, which consists of three simple, but powerful components: Mindset: How to think like a successful English speaker Method: How to live, speak and master English in the Real World Mastery: How to become a confident Global Citizen In this podcast, you will listen to fun, relevant and dynamic English conversations with me and other experienced fluency coaches. These lessons are designed to help you become a confident, natural English speaker AND Global Citizen. You will learn: - The vocabulary, phrasal verbs, idioms, and slang that you ACTUALLY need to know - How to understand fast-spoken English from various native and advanced non-native fluency coaches - Native pronunciation and Connected Speech (How natives reduce, cut and connect the sounds) And so much more! By the way, to get the best experience with our podcast, we highly recommend you listen to it on the RealLife English App. With every episode you get a full, interactive transcript and vocabulary definitions. That way, you won’t miss a single thing! Just search for RealLife English in your favorite app store. Subscribe to this podcast so you don’t miss a single new episode. Aww yeah! Download the App: https://reallifeglobal.com/app/

Words to Know

Ear buds- noise receptors in your ear
Virtual haircut - life like video, you must hear with headphones (click here to watch)
Every now and then - sometimes
Left over - the remains of something
Kink - problems in technology
Pop up - to appear unexpectedly
Rings a bell - sounds familiar
Brutal - a bad or awkward situation
Intertwined - to become joined together
Shaky - an unbalanced situation
Blended - crushed in a blender (see photo)
Dutch - a person/language from the Netherlands
Split the bill - divide the bill
Blindfold - a piece of fabric used to cover your eyes
Set up - organise somthing for someone else
Facestalk - to stalk someone on facebook
Fiends with benefits - friends who have sexual intercourse
Busted -broken

News

  • New introduction to the podcast
  • We have a present for all of our podcast listeners - see more at the podcast page
  • The next Real Life party is on the 8th of June - we will charge R$5 to cover costs and donate to KIVA

Shout Outs....

  • Itunes review - Al from Basque Country 
  • Itunes review - Sorasoroya Thailand

Questions

  • What's the difference between "advise" and "advice?"

Expressions

Tip

  • ANKI - flashcard program used to help remember new vocabulary!!

Joke

Connect

If you’ve found the podcast at all helpful or entertaining, please help other people find our podcast by visiting our iTunes page and giving us a positive review. The more 5 star reviews we get the easier it is for other people to find us on iTunes.

 

  • Follow us on Twitter: receive daily tweets about phrasal verbs, slang, grammar exercises, quotes, jokes, and music videos with lyrics.

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If you know some ways we can make it better, please send us an email: trevor @ reallifebh . com

Song

Jurassic 5 - The Thin LIne

Direct download: Podcast_20_Relationships.mp3
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To see all the links go to RealLifeBH.com

Words to Know

  • Young grasshopper - A common thing for a Martial Arts master to call a student.
  • Period - Menstrual cycle
  • Cramps - Painful contractions of muscles
  • Hypnosis - a state of consciousness where you are very open to suggestions (see photo)
  • Blood - the red liquid in your body that comes out when you are cut
  • Cologne - scented water to make men smell good (perfume is for women)
  • On top of the world - To feel absolutely amazing (this was an expression in Episode #13)
  • Warm and fuzzy - happy and comforted
  • Liquor - alcohol that is very strong: rum, whiskey, vodka, tequila, etc.
  • The more the merrier - the more people, the more fun it is
  • Handsome - good looking (used for men)
  • Inside joke - a joke that only people within a selected group would understand because it refers to a previous humorous situation
  • Intervals - a space between two things, a gap
  • Cleared it up - removed any confusion
  • Relevant - closely connected or appropriate
  • Make up - cosmetics that are generally used by women to make them "more attractive"
  • Lips - what you kiss with
  • Opposed - contrasting or conflicting with each other
  • Gazelle - a small, four legged animal with horns (see photo)
  • Mankind - human beings considered collectively; the human race
  • Saying - a short expression, generally containing wisdom
  • Jamming - to play/improvise with other musicians
  • Chunk - a thick, solid piece of something
  • Strap - a piece of flexible material used to carry or hold on to something
  • Swing dance - (watch a swing dance flash mob)
  • Bullshit - nonsense
  • Turn off - switch off
  • Foul mouths - people who swear/curse
  • Hatchet - a small ax
  • Ax - a tool typically used for chopping wood (see photo)

News

  • The RLE Party is confirmed for July 8th at Devassa in Savassi, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The party starts at 5pm.
  • The podcast will now be released by 12 noon on Tuesdays.
  • The Real Life English Podcast was downloaded 2,000 in one day.
  • We now have 30,000 followers on Twitter. Aww yeah! 

Shout Outs

Questions

  •  What is the difference between "avenue," "street," "boulevard," and "road"?

Expressions

  • Jump to conclusions
  • By leaps and bounds
  • Spread yourself to thin
  • Swing by
  • Breaking my balls

Tip

  • Immerse yourself in English by changing the language of your phone, computer, Facebook, Twitter, email, software, and everything you can into English.

Joke

  • Put down - to place on a surface, (I can't put it down - when a book is so good you can't stop reading)

Connect

If you’ve found the podcast at all helpful or entertaining, please help other people find our podcast by visiting our iTunes page and giving us a positive review. The more 5 star reviews we get the higher we rank in iTunes and the easier it is for other people to find us.

  • Follow us on Twitter: receive daily tweets about phrasal verbs, slang, grammar exercises, quotes, jokes, and music videos with lyrics.

  • Like our Facebook Page: receive the daily expressions and other great English tips.

  • Join our Facebook Group: join the daily English discussions with our 4,500+ teachers and learners from over 50 countries.

If you know some ways we can make the podcast better, please send us an email: trevor @ reallifebh . com

Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDxKp22hmBY

For full lyrics click here

Chorus:

crave you like a breath underwater
I'm someone's son and you'll be somebody's daughter
And we're both somebody, intertwined together we can be hotter

  • Crave - a powerful desire desire
  • Intertwined - twisted together; connected or linked closely.

For more info about the interview of how Kai saved some people's live's by smashing a guy in the back of the head with a hatchet click here.

Direct download: RLEP_Episode_19_-_Expressions_related_to_MOVEMENT.mp3
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Words to Know

Tan- darkened skin from the sun
Worm- an insect that lives in the ground and eats poop
Wealthy-
 to have lots of life’s riches
Party-goer- a person who goes to parties
Look forward to- to be excited about something that will happen in the future
Bore to tears- to be so bored that you feel loke crying
Role model- someone who sets a good example for children
My bad- another way to accept the blame for something
Party pooper- someone who ruins a party or has bad energy at a party
Hotwire- to start a car without using a key
Killing it- doing a really good job
Hushed- keep it quiet
Trickery- the name of acts that can trick you
Venue- 
a place where you have shows and parties

News

  • Ethan has left Brazil and in planning on going to Spain in the near future
  • The next party “should” be on the 8th of June

Shout Outs

Question

  • What’s the difference between ‘fault’ & ‘mistake’ ? From: Merina Marwah, Indonesia @meriiina

Expressions

  • Keep the ball rolling
  • Keep an eye out
  • Finders Keepers
  • Keep it on the download
  • Keep it up

Tip

The Macmillan verb wheel game play it here

Joke

Mitch Hedburg
I don’t have a girlfriend but…
I like escalators because…

Connect

If you’ve found the podcast at all helpful or entertaining, please help other people find our podcast by visiting our iTunes page and giving us a positive review. The more 5 star reviews we get the easier it is for other people to find us on iTunes.

  •  Follow us on Twitter: receive daily tweets about phrasal verbs, slang, grammar exercises, quotes, jokes, and music videos with lyrics.
  • Like our Facebook Page: receive the daily expressions and other great English tips.

  • Join our Facebook Group: join the daily English discussions with our 4,500+ teachers and learners from over 50 countries.

 If you know some ways we can make it better, please send us an email: trevor @ reallifebh . com

Direct download: RLEP_Episode_18_-_Expressions_related_to_KEEP.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:56pm -03

Words to Know

Shade- different tones of colours
Skeptical- to not like or believe in something before you try it
rooted/cheering- to support a team or a person
Spring out- appear suddenly
Spot light- light used for attracting attentions to someone
Stage- elevated floor where people perform
Wheeze- noise made when having breathing problems
Kinky- a person who likes strange styles of sex
Get along- to have a good relationship with someone

News

The Real Life Party was awesome, next one is probably the 25th of May
New skype class schedule: reallifebh.com/skype

Shout Outs

Rodrigo P. Honorato (A.K.A. Dawg)
Itunes China
Itunes Spain
Itunes Brazil

Questions

What’s the difference between “oh yeah!” and “awwwww yeah.”

Expressions

  • A fair weather friend
  • To steal someone’s thunder
  • Under the weather
  • Come rain or shine
  • Snowed under

Tip

Have fun and Learn English reading Marvel comics at any convenient time

Joke

Why did the parrot die?!?!
Check out more one-liner jokes with Mitch Hedburg

Connect

  • Follow us on Twitter: receive daily tweets about phrasal verbs, slang, grammar exercises, quotes, jokes, and music videos with lyrics.

  • Like our Facebook Page: receive the daily expressions and other great English tips.

  • Join our Facebook Group: join the daily English discussions with our 4,500+ teachers and learners from over 50 countries.

If you’ve found the podcast at all helpful or entertaining, we’d love if you could visit our iTunes page and give us a positive review. This will help us to get more listeners and invest more in the podcast!

If you know some ways we can make it better, please send us an email: trevor @ reallifebh . com

Direct download: podcast_17.mp3
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