Speak Better English with Harry

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, I would like to introduce a native teacher James. James is an experienced teacher originally from England who is currently living in Istanbul, Turkey. James would like to teach you some...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, we're moving onto the last letter in the English alphabet, the letter Z. Z is pronounced as /zed/ in British English and as /zee/ in American English. The /z/ sound is very similar...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to popular phrasal verbs with 'talk'. Talk over, talk through, talk back and many more. Learn phrasal verbs with detailed meanings and examples. Improve your...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, we're moving onto the letter Y. You're going to learn how to pronounce the letter Y. Y at the beginning of the words, Y in the middle of the words, Y at the end. Tongue twister...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to learn unusual English expressions using body parts. Some of these phrases are often not included in the language books. Learn these uncommon English idioms with mean...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to learn how to pronounce X in words in English. Xerox, execute, exaggerate, exam...Learn different ways to pronounce English words with the letter X. Listen, repeat af...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to learn very popular English phrases to avoid answering a question. Use these phrases when you don't want to give an answer, or you want to think about it, or you...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to learn how to pronounce W sound in English. Word, way, where, what, way... Practise W sound pronunciation with a funny English tongue twister.  Learn the words where...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to learn popular English idioms with the word 'strange'. Hello, stranger. Don't be a stranger. Stranger things have happened. And more. Advanced English...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to learn how to pronounce the V sound in English. Village, van, vehicle, clever. Listen, repeat after me and improve your English pronunciation. https://www.englishless...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to learn other ways to say 'interesting' in English. Advanced English adjectives will enhance your English vocabulary and help you improve your English level....

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, we're moving on to the last vowel in English alphabet - the letter U. The letter U has three different sounds - long u like in rude , /ʌ/ sound like in cut and /ʊ/ sound like in pul...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this podcast episode, you're going to learn common idioms about fruits in English. A plum job, bad apple, comparing apples and oranges and more. Learn popular English idioms and improve your English skil...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. As promised, we're now moving on to TH sound in English. The most difficult sound to pronounce in the English language for non-native speakers. Learn how to pronounce voiced and voiceless TH sounds. TH tong...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. Hit the ground running. What does it mean? Learn the meaning of this funny English idioms + 7 popular idioms with 'hit'. Improve your English vocabulary and speak with confidence. https://www.englishle...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. This episode will help you improve your English pronunciation. In this episode, you're going to learn how to pronounce the 'T sound' /t/. Tea, top, tree, table. Learn to pronounce the words with t...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. Let's talk about the words that always get my students confused: ache, pain, hurt, injury and sore. What is the difference between ache, pain and hurt? How do we use 'ache' in English? How do we u...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. This episode will help you improve your English pronunciation. In this episode, you're going to learn how to pronounce English words with the letter S. Voiced and unvoiced S sounds. Silent S words. English...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. The word 'day' is one of the popular words in English. And as you would expect, there are many expressions in English with this word. So today, let's look at very popular English idioms with &apos...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this episode, we will continue to improve your English pronunciation. This time, we're going to look at one of the most difficult letters to pronounce, the letter R. Learn how to pronounce /r/ in British...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this episode, we're going to talk about fish. I know, not everyone likes eating fish. But here we're not going to eat it, we're going to learn English idioms with different types of fish. Fish...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. In this episode, we continue to practice your English pronunciation, we're moving on to the P sound. Strong and weak P. Learn to pronounce English words in which the letter P is silent. What is the most dif...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. I always encourage my students to use different synonyms to avoid using the same words over and over again. In this episode, you will learn 10 different ways you can use to say something is important. Listen and...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. This is a new English pronunciation episode. Today, we're going to practice the different O sounds in English. Long O, short O, double O. Listen and repeat after me to dramatically improve your English pron...

Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar. Dramatically improve your vocabulary and learn new English words. In this episode, you will learn other words that you can use instead of 'strange' in English. Particularly useful for those of you who...