Master English With Tim

How do you fix your pronunciation errors? There are five ways: 1. Mental replay 2. Back-chaining 3. Front-chaining 4. Similar words 5. Anatomical focus Cover photo credit: From D-M Commons - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20420643 The original image has been modified to fit a square frame. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

One of the most confusing and difficult words for people learning English is unless . In reality, less has two meanings: “if not” and “only if”, and you can learn both by listening to some practical examples. In Episode 46, Tim also returns to the topic of learning several new words that all share a single root. This time, explains the root HAP, which is found in words like happy and hapless . Pho...

It's no coincidence that words that look alike often have similar meanings. In Episode #45, Tim reveals the hidden connection between nine words containing the letters GL. Bonus PDF with exercises Cover photo credit: By User:MatthiasKabel - cropped from File:Capitoline Brutus Musei Capitolini MC1183 01.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8270967 Hosted on Ausha. See...

You need impactful words if you want to make killer business presentations with data. Listen to Tim and download his PDF to learn dozens of practical examples. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Students often confuse the verbs raise and rise and grow . In Episode #43, Tim explains the differences in form and meaning between these important verbs. Tim also explains two other confusing words, meal and appeal. To remember better what you learn, use this PDF with answer key . Photo credit: English Walnuts - Noix — Wikipédia ( wikipedia.org ) The original photo has been cropped. License: CC B...

If you want to speak English well, then you need to know your irregular verbs. The most common way to learn irregular verbs is by using flashcards , but flashcards are not the best way to learn . In Episode 42, Tim discusses six methods and resources to help you learn and retain irregular verbs. Free study files: Most Used Irregular Verbs – these are the most common irregular verbs with US pronunc...

In Episode 41, Tim tells about two times, one in Russia and one in France, that he faced unwanted and memorable adventures while trying to find places to sleep. Near Rennes , France and in Moscow Oblast . Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

2023 was the first year of the English With Tim podcast, and he covered topics ranging from his travels to Tajikistan and Bangladesh to Proto-Indo-European roots found in English and Russian, to the chewing gum accent heard in informal, spontaneous North American English, to Christmas adventures with his family. Listen to Episode 40 to hear these stories and more- the best of 2023 with English Wit...

Atomic Habits by James Clear is one of the most successful books on psychology and motivation of the past decade. Atomic Habits shows how to build new and powerful habits starting from small and usually painless changes. In Episode 39, Tim summarizes this incredibly useful book, and tells how to use its methods to speak  better English. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more informa...

Adventure 1: The Arctic Circle (11:12) Tim interviews a close friend of his family, Faye, an eleven year old girl who traveled to the Arctic Circle for a private meeting with Santa Claus. Adventure 2: Toys in the Woods (5:42) Tim interviews his dad, who describes a Christmas tradition of his own invention. ¡¡¡ADVENTURE 3: DINOSAUR HUNTING ON CHRISTMAS!!! Tim interviews Shalva, a paleontologist fro...

I go under the bed sheets and fall into a crouch in a wooden dinghy in the trough of a cold titanium swell awash with 1000-ruble bills and islands of blood clots. I don’t know how to stand. The sky is pre-tornado green. I peer over the edge of the boat, grasp at the bills and toss them onto the rotted deck. I don’t see any MVDs, but the thought of their arrival makes me tension my gut, girding my...

French loanwords in English, for example déjà vu and bon vivant are quite popular and can help you sound more cool and sophisticated. Use the free PDF below to help remember these words: French words in English (You may also want to review German loanwords from Episode #35 !) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Loanwords are words taken from one language that become part of another language, for example zeitgeist and panzer from German. Learn these and many other German loanwords in Episode 35. Use the free PDF below to help remember these words: German Loanword Crossword Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

English word histories and English root words help you to learn new and unusual words! English word histories also help you understand words you already know in a new, fresh way. In Episode #34, Tim takes a deep look at a single Proto-Indo-European root, BL, which is found in words like BALL, BELLY, BALLOON and BELLOWS. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) was a language first spoken around 6500 years before...

Portmanteaus, also known as blend words, are words that consist of the beginning of one word and the end of another. Some examples of portmanteaus are smog (smoke + fog) or cronut (croissant + donut). Some portmanteaus have a short life and disappear from the language, while others (like smog) are so commonly used that we forget their origin. In Episode 33, Tim explains the meanings of ten portman...

In this week’s episode, Tim suggests five popular YouTube channels to learn English: 1. Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell 2. Accurate English 3. Rachel’s English 4. English Class 101 5. Learn English With TV Series Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

There are two keys to sounding more like a native speaker of English: chewing gum pronunciation, and phrasal verbs, 10 of which you can learn in this week’s episode. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Ask any student the hardest things about learning English, and most will tell you, “questions“. Don’t forget another sentence type, though: negative statements. Listen to Episode 30 to learn how to make this crucial sentence type! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Do you want to learn to use a, an, some, and the? If you speak a non-Western European language, chances are that it is hard for you to choose between a, an, some, the and no article. A lot of English learners think these are trash words that mean nothing and are impossible to learn. That’s not true! In Episode 29, Tim tells a funny story about a girl and some cops to explain how to choose the best...

Idioms are multi-word expressions whose meaning is different from the individual words in the idiom. One example of a popular idiom is like clockwork, which means in a routine, completely predictable way.  Listen to today’s episode for ten more idioms with examples. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In Episode 9, Tim talked about how his experience learning Russian as an English native speaker- what aspects of Russian were easy for him and which were hard. In this episode, Tim tells which features of English are easy and which are difficult for Russian speakers. Everything is covered: vowels, consonants, consonant clusters, word stress, intonation, the chewing gum accent; spelling, word forma...

Flashcards can be paper (or digital) word cards with an English word you’re trying to learn on one side, with either a translation into your language or a definition in English on the other. Flashcards seem to offer a quick and easy way to learn a large amount of vocabulary- some language learners claim that they can add 100 words in a day to their long-term memory by using flashcards! But is usin...

“How do you make questions?” Before we answer this question, we need to understand that there are different types of questions: yes/ no questions, wh- questions, and subject questions. In today’s episode, Tim talks about subject questions. Subject questions are questions in which we don’t know who does the action the sentence talks about. For example: Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar? In...

Gerund or infinitive? In last week’s episode, Tim talked about whether to use the gerund or the base form. This week, Tim shifts his focus to how to choose the gerund or the infinitive. There is a hack for choosing the gerund or the infinitive that works most of the time: infinitives are used in situations where an action is not yet completed. You can see this in three situations: 1. In the expres...

Tim’s students often ask him about the rules for choosing the gerund or the infinitive. This is a great question and an important topic in English grammar- knowing the right form will help you understand clearly and speak correctly. In reality though, there is a third verb form we need to choose from- the base form. In this episode, Tim focuses on the base form and the gerund, leaving the infiniti...