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Suggestion: Read the sentences first and then put them away. Do NOT try to read the words while you listen and repeat. Reading will NOT help your pronunciation. Train your ears. Repeat: train your ears.

1- The fires in Los Angeles are out of control.

2- She came to my birthday party and ate too much cake.

3- My mother is flying from Miami to New York.

4- My sister got married at the age of twenty-seven.

5- Charlie found a wallet full of money in the street.

6- I’m thinking of buying an E-bike.

7- The damage from the fires will take decades to repair.

8- We are not familiar with the customs of Albania.

9- Her birthday is on the thirteenth of September.

10- Now that I live on an island, I go to the beach every day.

11- Whether you believe me or not doesn’t matter. Everything I said is true.

12- If I come work for your company, you’ll double my pay?

13- He had a great time visiting Ireland and he wants to go back again soon.

14- She wished me a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

15- I’d love to have a dog, but I don’t have time or money to take care of one.

16- I stayed up too late last night and now I’m falling asleep in my armchair.

17- I’ll stay at work until I finish this project.

18- My dog will be my faithful friend until the day he dies.

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It's okay to read the sentences if you need to, but please do NOT try to read them while you're repeating with the podcast. English spelling is a distraction. It's NOT a useful guide to pronunciation.* Close your eyes (unless you're driving!) and use your ears. Train yourself to really hear the sounds, rhythm, stress and intonation of my speech.

1- I went downtown to pick up some food.

2- He visited his mother in the late afternoon.

3- She cleaned her apartment for most of the day.

4- We drove to the lake and swam for a few hours.

5- I worked on my homework until it was finished.

6- Where did you find such a good book?

7- John takes his dog Rex for a walk twice a day.

8- During the week I work 9 to 5.

9- I started studying English many years ago.

10- Whoever you invite is okay with me.

11- Math and science are my favorite subjects.

12- What kind of pizza would you like to have?

13- Green is not my favorite color.

14- I ate chicken; my mom chose pasta.

15- My father works too much. It’s getting him down.

16- If you don’t understand me I’ll speak more slowly.

*(If you have any doubts about this, have a native speaker say these words for you:
tough, though, house, pour, group, cousin, loud, fourth... Yeah, what a mess.)

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November 2, 2024

Hello everybody. I've been meaning to record a short podcast to tell you what's going on, and here it is. I've been very busy the past month and November and December are shaping up to be even busier. So I'm not going to record any new podcasts during that time. I will continue to pay for the podcasts to be hosted so you can listen to any of them you like and download them. But I'm not planning to record new ones, at least for the next two months.

However, if you follow me on Telegram, I have been putting up short recordings which you can play as loops. So if you start them playing, you can listen one time or ten times or a hundred times. I personally, for my own language practice, think loops are great. They let you really key in on the pronunciation and the rhythm and how something really sounds. Much better than anything else. Repetition, as far as I'm concerned, is magic. So if you're not following me on Telegram, the link is below. If you don't use Telegram, you might consider getting it. It's handy for this purpose. I know it's also used by all sorts of bad people to do bad things, but that's out of my control. So give it a try. Set up a little Telegram account and follow English with Barry.

I have been posting two sentences a day most of the time on weekdays. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Two, I should say two loops because some of them are more than one or two sentences. So that's it. No new podcast planned for the next two months. And I will try to post at least one, if not two, new loops every weekday on my Telegram channel. If you have any questions, there's a link below for sending me a message. And I'll put an email so you can email me also if you want to. Thank you, and happy November and happy December. Take care!
Barry

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