825. Time-Travel Story, Language Immersions in Malta & Playing the Bagpipes (with Alastair Budge)
About this episode
<p>Is that a confusing title? Hopefully not. As you might expect, it's a little summary of what's included in the episode. To give you some more details, Alastair Budge is the host of a podcast called "English Learning for Curious Minds" and he has created a new audio drama for English learners called "Pioneers of the Continuum". It's a time-travel adventure for English learners, and Alastair asked me to be the narrator for episode 1. In this episode of LEP, we talk about Alastair's story, living in Malta, learning English by immersion, cliches and complaints from English speakers visiting Paris and Alastair's story about playing the bagpipes on the streets of Paris. The audio version includes 30+mins of rambling from me at the end. Enjoy!</p><p>👉 Episode page <a href="https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOL</a></p><p>👉 Alastair's website (podcasts + more) <a href="https://www.leonardoenglish.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.leonardoenglish.com/</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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