Zdenek’s English Podcast

This episode was recorded during class while playing a game where we ask each other simple questions. The episode features a lot of guests so there some talking over each other, butr generally speaking it should be well understood. The tone is very light-hearted. I also have one important disclaimer. during the episode, one of the students keeps mentioning probably the most atrocious man in the hi...

This episode features a high profile guest Martin from a well established Rock 'n Roll English podcast. After introducing the guest of this episode, we spend some time talking about a football match between England and the Czech Republic which took place a few months ago. Naturally, we also touch on Brexit, admittedly much to Martin's disgust. At the end Martin tells us about his current projects...

This episode is a conversation class with my student Olga. I put her on the spot a bit by coming to our private lesson and asking her to record a podcast interview with me about her profession. She is a dental hygienist so she explains what her profession involves and gives a lot of valuable advice about how to clean our teeth, etc. _________________________________________________________________...

This episode was supposed to be published for patrons only, but I changed my mind about it because it is too funny and cool to have only a few people listen to it.  Why was Rubick almost arrested in his week in the Czech Republic? What is Salem's superpower? How did Rami lose 40 kilos in 2 years? What do the guys think of each another? Which one of them has anger issues? Which one is a history fre...

In this episode I talk to my students Rubick from Lebanon and Salem from Syria about the Middle East.  We talk about this world region and its specific problems. 

In this episode I catch up with my Irish friend Kay who lived in the Czech Republic last year and is now working at a university in Manchester. As it was recorded on St. Patrick's Day, we naturally talk about this world-famous Irish tradition. We also touch upon accents, Czech Easter, Kay's job, and her future plans. 

In this episode I talk to my advanced student Honza about bowling. He is a bowler and he knows everything you need to know. Prepare for a lot of vocabulary related to this sport. 

This is another episode from the series of "Flashcards Vocab". In this particular one I use a lot of examples from British politics, but I also talk about terrorism, and football. 

In this episode, I read out and respond to ten messages/emails I have recieved in the last few months. Most of them praise my work I do with this podcast, some of them are a reaction to my appearance on Luke's English Podcast, some offer a unique insight into my listeners' lifes and ambitions which are often highly relatable to me personally, and there is even an email which helps me identify my o...

In this episode, I talk to my Claire. This is a light-hearted chat, but make no mistake, it also has a very thoughful educational motive. Essentially, I and Claire teach you selected binominal phrases such as little by little, ups and downs, by and large, and many more.   The quality of the recording is not ideal since it was recorded in a café and naturally the recorder picked up a lot of backgro...

    In this episode I take a light-hearted approach to teach a pronunciation phenomenon called glottal stop /ʔ/- a sound that is often used in spoken English to replace sound /t/.     Phonetics and this sound in particular is something I have been interested in for a while and I am delighted to talk about it here on ZEP.  I will present to you a lot of examples of words (and sometimes not just wor...

    It's been a while since I had another podcaster on my podcast. So I was very pleased when Dustin from Board Gaming with English (now renamed into Board Gaming with Education) agreed to come on to ZEP. Dustin is an English teacher from Nebraska in the U.S. who is currently working at a university in Taipei (Taiwan).  This is a no nonsense episode in which you can naturally hear us talk about ou...

This time I talk to my English friend Marvin about Petr Cech, a Chelsea (and Czech) legend and currently an Arsenal player, who has recently announced his retirement from the world of football. After the interview, there is also a short language analysis. 

   In this episode I reflect on the experience of featuring in episodes 569 and 570 of Luke's English Podcast. I will tell you how I felt before, during, and after the interview with Luke, and generally explain how much this meant to me.     The second part of this episode is an attempt to self-correct some of the more glaring mistakes I made in part 1 of the interview. Infamously, this episode ha...

    In this episode I talk to John from Canada, another playtester of Kingdoms of Deceit. We talk mostly about Canada related topics and I also ask John to help me clarify a few words which start with letters "can". It's has a feel of a lighthearted conversation, rather than a deep discussion.  --- Facebook  - join Zdenek's English Podcast Facebook group, like, share and comment on Facebook I-tune...

This episode has two main parts. The first part is a classic New Year's Eve Road to Civilisation with my cousin Honza and also an additional guest Nrup. The seconds part is an audio version of the live Facebook video I did earlier the same day. If you are a Spurs fan, I highly recommend not listening to this one. 

   This episode was recorded on a train last winter. I kept postponing publishing it because I always thought it was a bit weird. I have now changed my mind, though.     It features my good friend Nrup from India. We were travelling from Podebrady to Prague and we decided to kill time by playing a well-known word game and recording our struggle as a ZEP episode. I wanted to raise the challenge so...

   This episode is dedicated to Czech people. I attempt to give you a balanced view of what it is like to be Czech by presenting my top 5 good and bad things about our country and its people.     There might be some contentious subjects that I bring up. Please understand that these are all my personal views and I am always open to a debate about everything I argued there. I am even prepared to cha...

In this insanely rambly episode I introduce you a new competition. You have exactly one week to send me an email with a few pieces of information namely (your name, a country you come from, how long you have been a listener, how you found out about ZEP, your favourite episode). Listen to this episode to find out more including what the prize is. I will be announcing the winner in a live video on F...

In this episode I talk to Nick, a student of politics from England, about Brexit. Nick is currently in the middle of writing an essay on Brexit and thus has some fresh insight into the whole subject. What is Brexit? Why did the UK vote Brexit? Is there a deal? Is there a chance this could all be reverted? What are the current options? This conversation might be slightly geeky and you might have to...

This is part 2 of the class with Barbara. We actually start off this episode by speaking German, which is kinda hilarious. Barbara tells us what it was like living in Austria and compares that to her life in the Czech Republic as well. Later we touch upon Brexit as we talk about Barbara's future plans. And last but not least, Barbara talks about the TV series she is keen on. There were slight tech...

   In this episode, I talk to my student Barbara who is a very interesting young woman. She was born in Chile, but lived most of her life in Europe. She went to a British school in Spain. She also spent 1 year in France studying French and 2 years in Austria studying German. And this year she is in the Czech Republic doing a bit of Czech for a change.     We talk about her life journey, challenges...

 This time I am joined by a podcast regular Mark from the UK. We have about 20-minute catch-up chat in which I manage to throw in a lot of idioms related to health, illnesses and dying. Mark decided to visit me in the Czech Republic just to record this podcast. We both had a lot of fun recording this.     There is a bit of chitchat about my game Kingdoms of Deceit and at the end we are also joined...

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In this episode I caught up with Franta who had previously featured in one of the most successful episodes on this podcast ever. This time I visited Franta in his hometown - Brighton (England) and the episode was actually recorded on the beach. In it, we talked about Franta's current life, reminded everyone of his success story, we answered some questions from a listener, and simply just bantered...