English with Monty - The Podcast about the English Language

Jon and Gideon talk about British literature throughout the ages. From Beowulf to Chaucer and Shakespeare to Jane Austin to name but a few. We give you can insight to what they wrote and also give you an idea of what books are easier to read as an English learner. For more information about Monty and to support our podcast please click on the link below: https://linktr.ee/englishwithmonty

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about when and how you use infinitives of purpose - e.g. I went to the shop to buy some milk Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternatively,...

Jon and Gideon talk about how to use discourse markers when speaking. Discourse markers are words and phrases that are used to organise and manage the structure of discourse. Examples include 'well', 'I mean', 'you know' plus quite a few more. They help make your speaking more natural! For more information about Monty and to support our podcast please click on the link below: https://linktr.ee/eng...

Jon and Ben (To The Point English with Ben: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzxHbqh9Pxk9sV4W66jIbjA ) talk for around 8 minutes using separable and non-separable phrasal verbs. How and when to use them and in what context. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra!...

Jon and Tessa from the Netherlands talk about common English errors that Dutch speakers make. Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternatively, you can make a one-off donation here (you don't need a PayPal account to make a donation): https://www.paypal.com/d...

Jon and Ben (To The Point English with Ben: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzxHbqh9Pxk9sV4W66jIbjA ) talk for around 8 minutes using separable and non-separable phrasal verbs. How and when to use them and in what context. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra!...

Jon and Amy (from English With Amy Online - https://englishwithamyonline.com/ ) talk about three positive and three negative aspects of British culture. We have a bit of a chat about our viewpoints, which should hopefully give you a better insight of what British culture is like. So, if you want to learn more about British culture then give it a listen! Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me c...

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about when to use stative verbs in the continuous form. Many state verbs have two different forms (a state one and a dynamic one) with the meaning changing in each form. We cover look / looking, have / having, hear / hearing, feel / feeling, smell / smelling, think / thinking, weigh / weighing and see / seeing. Perfect if you don't have much time and want t...

Jon and Gideon talk about idioms that you can use at work. Covering: Cut corners; it's not rocket science; get the ball rolling; up to speed; on the back burner; back to the drawing board; for the long haul; burn the midnight oil; change of pace; think outside the box, plus one or two more. If you would like to sound smart at work then give it a listen! Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me c...

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about when to use adjectives or adverbs. In this part they cover spellings of adverbs with an -ly ending, what we do when we use linking verbs and comparatives or superlatives with adverbs. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something...

Jon and Ben (from To The Point English - http://ttpenglish.com) talk about proverbs that can help motivate you as an English learner. Covering: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime; you can lead a horse to water...; a Jack of all trades is a master of none; fortune favours the brave; two heads are better than one, among others. So, if you are feel...

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about when to use adjectives or adverbs. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: English with Monty on Patreon Alternatively, you can make a one-off donation here (you don't need a PayPal...

Jon and Gideon talk about the origins of the English language. They cover the history and influences English has taken from other languages and people. Not a definitive guide by any means but it should give you a good background knowledge of how English became the language it is today. Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subsc...

Jon and Jules from Italy talk for around 8 minutes about modifiers. This part covers adjective, adverb, phrase and clause modifiers. Squinting modifiers are also included at the end of the episode. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through...

Jon and Gideon talk about common English errors that French speakers make. Gideon has an English language school in Paris, he gives some useful insights from his own personal experience. Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternatively, you can make a one-off...

Jon and Jules from Italy talk for around 8 minutes about modifiers. This part covers adjective order, misplaced modifiers and dangling modifiers. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Al...

Jon and Gideon talk about 10 different British dialects you need to know which are commonly heard. We cover Scottish, Geordie, Yorkshire, Welsh, Brummie, West Country, RP, Mancunian and Cockney. Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternatively, you can make a...

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about punctuation. This part covers avoiding multiple punctuation at the end of a sentence, using a colon, commas for non-essential information, a dictionary to help, dots after abbreviations, the number of clauses in a sentence, and some more on hyphens and dashes. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my po...

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about punctuation. This part covers apostrophes, quotation marks, brackets, hyphens, colons and semicolons. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty...

Jon and Gideon talk about linking words (or connectives). Different words you can use to express addition, contrast and purpose. Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternatively, you can make a one-off donation here (you don't need a PayPal account to make a...

Jon is joined by Gideon to talk about how to use the second and third conditional forms. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternatively, you can make a one-off donation here (you do...

Jon and Gideon talk about narrative tenses. Verb tenses we use to talk about the past.   We cover past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. You can often find them in stories, textbooks, spoken accounts and in descriptions of past events. Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patre...

Jon and Gideon talk about how you can be fluent in English. We give you some tips and ideas which will help you speak better in English. Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternatively, you can make a one-off donation here (you don't need a PayPal account to...

Jon and Gideon talk about how you can be fluent in English. We give you some tips and ideas which will help you speak better in English. Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternatively, you can make a one-off donation here (you don't need a PayPal account to...

Jon is joined by Gideon to talk about how to use quantifiers: any, some, much, many, a lot of, lots of, none and enough to name but a few. Perfect if you don't have much time and want to brush up on your grammar :) Supporting my podcast is easy and helps me create great, new content and gives you something extra! You can subscribe through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EnglishwithMonty Alternati...