“Mistakes are your best friends. Don’t be scared of them, embrace them.”

Welcome episode #004 of The Broughton English Show, where I talk to the best teachers, learners, and motivators of the English learning world to give you the best tips, tricks, and techniques to help you learn, practise, and master English on your own.

Today’s guest is Francesca Nadin, an English teacher from Manchester, England. We chat about learning, improving your English, and she also shares her top 5 idioms related to talking. Check out her unique, conversation-based teaching style in her language school Las Malas Lenguas.

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Show Notes

• Francesca talks about her experience as an English teacher and the differences between English learners in Asia and Spain.
• We talk about how the classroom environment influences learning.
• We chat about the importance of English learners being aware of their needs, weaknesses, and decide for themselves what they want to learn.
• Francesca shares her top 5 idiomas related o speaking: it’s like talking to a brick wall, to beat around the bush, to have have the gift if the gab, to spill the beans, to hear something on the grapevine.
• We talk about memory techniques that English learners can use to remember vocabulary more easily.
• We talk about the various accents in the UK and how the northern accents differ from southern accents.
• Francesca emphasises the importance of speaking and how English learners can practise speaking in English.
• To find out more about Francesca Nadin and her language school Las Malas Lengas, just click here.

Recommended resources

• • • AnkiApp – The best flashcard app to learn languages. https://www.ankiapp.com/
    • Forvo – All the words in the world. Pronounced. https://es.forvo.com/
    • English Grammar in Use
    • Cat’s Cradle 

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