Zdenek’s English Podcast

Here is the interview with the person who finished in the second place in ZEP competition. Congratulations!

Here is the 3rd place in the ZEP competition. Warning: There is a lot of improvised ramble prior to the interview.

The 4th place of the ZEP competition including 3 error corrections as a bonus.

Another competition interview charged with a lot of emotions of various sorts.

Here is the 5th place of ZEP competition.

Lyrics by Zdenek Lukas Music downloaded from http://www.killatune.com/freenonexbeats/freebeats1.mp3

The person who finished in the shared sixth/ seventh place of the competition is revealed in this episode. I also take a brief look at the genitive case.

Finally the competition results are here!!! Thanks everyone for the participation :)

This quick message is mainly a call on Ben from Algeria to get back to me so that we can record his competition entry. I also outline what kind of blunder I made with Daniele's contribution. In addition, I shortly talk about how I featured on the Chatcast as a host with 7 more people.

In this episode I decided to give a chance to two young Czech teenagers to have a say on the podcast. The first ten minutes are the introduction to this episode. I basically explain the context in which this recording was made. After that I start shooting loads of questions at Michal and Bart to keep the conversation going. We talk about their attitude to English, their interests such as bodybuild...

I and my cousin Honza in a New Year's Eve Road to Civilization episode :)

This is the final part of the interview with Ethan recorded in the second largest city in the Czech Republic Brno. For this one I prepared idioms related to music. At the end there is another piece of music from Ethan.

This is the second part of the interview with Ethan I recorded in Brno. This time we focus on Ethan’s music and his DJ career. Ethan exclusively provided some pieces of his music for the podcast. I selected the one I liked the best and played it at the end of this episode. This is where you can listen to his music or even download for free: https://soundcloud.com/ethane.

This is the 100th episode of Zdenek‘s English Podcast. Naturally, I used this milestone episode as an opportunity to review my podcasting history, but also to greet all my listeners and thank them for being with me. A special tribute was paid to Luke’s English Podcast and shootouts sent to people who run other podcasts of Leppers’ production. I once again made it clear what my future plans and amb...

This episode was recorded in Brno. It features an interview with my English friend Ethan (at the time of the recording slightly under the weather) who has come to live to the Czech Republic for a term as a part of his university programme. I ask him about his experiences living here, about the encounters with Czechs. Ethan explains what it is like to study Czech and tries to compare his university...

In this episode I am going to tell you about a competition which I have decided to launch for you, i.e. the listeners of this podcast. I hope you will all understand my instructions and at least some of you will take part, if not with the ambition to win, at least just for the hell of it. So this episode is about me kind of laying out the rules of the competition and also giving you reasons as to...

This is an improvised episode, recorded in an ice rink, which I produced with a friend of mine who has recently come back from a working holiday in the USA where he worked as a lifeguard.

In this episode I called on skype Gabriela from Brazil, my favourite contestant of Luke's English Podcast competition. She is only 13 and has already wonderful English. Especially her accent and pronunciation are truly admirable. I tried to present a theory as to how she managed to do that. We discuss various topics, such as learning English, Luke's English Podcast, Doctor Who, and more. Don't for...

This is the last episode from a mini-series featuring the American pastor Bill. In this one I scrutinize the interesting items of vocabulary for you. I hope you find it useful and I apologize for slight deviation to the correct pronunciation of the words dissect and dissection. If you want to know about the cut-throat competitions of other podcasters that I am facing these days, my attitude to it...

This episode of the podcast is a direct continuation of the intriguing dialogue I had with the American pastor Bill in episode no.92. This part is basically Bill’s interaction with the podcast fans whom I asked prior to the interview to come up with some interesting questions. What temperature is there in hell? What brought Bill to faith? In Bill’s opinion, toward whom is there the largest religio...

This is a brand new improvised episode in which I decided to go through some of the sticky notes found in my room and explain the bits of vocab written on them. I have recorded and uploaded it in a record time = in less than 2 hours, which has never happened on this podcast. For this reason this episode is a ground-breaking one. It will certainly give you a taste of what it is like when I record m...

This edition of the podcast features a native speaker Bill, a pastor from the USA. He came to visit a friend of his in the Czech Republic. We met in the school where I am teaching at the moment. He agreed to record an episode of Zdenek's English Podcast. In this interview we talk about Bill's job, religion, and history. We try to confront common American stereotypes. The last but not least, Bill a...

For this episode I decided to skypecall my colleague José from Chile. I call him my colleague for two reasons. First, he is a teacher by profession just like me and second, he has his own podcast in English in which he often interviews native speakers. We immerse ourselves in a debate about various topics. At the beginning I ask José to give us some geographical awareness of Chile and then we cont...

Do you remember Monika from the episode A Word with a Future Manager Living in London? And do you remember how Monika invited me to visit her in th UK? Well guess what? I took her up on it this summer. Obviously I couldn't let the opportunity to do some podcasting with her slip through my fingers. We did this episode in the nick of time right before my departure. So what can you expect from this o...

This episode was recorded on the day I took the final test with my foreign students. In the evening, we went to a bar and drank a bit and I used the opportunity to introduce my students to my podcast. The conversation we had was totally unscripted so everything was recorded on the spur of the moment. The occasional ramble which was, however, at times mixed with profound debate was inevitable. In a...