Hi and welcome to the Espresso English Podcast, where you can improve your English in just a few minutes a day.
My name is Shaina and I'm the teacher at Espresso English.
Make sure to visit the website EspressoEnglishnet, where you can get online courses and e-books that will help you learn English even faster.
Let's get started with today's lesson.
Hi students!
Guess what?
It's our birthday!
Espresso English turns 14 years old this month.
In the past 14 years, we've helped millions of learners just like you become more fluent and confident in English.
To celebrate 14 years, we're having a special birthday sale where you can get $14 off any course.
Visit EspressoEnglish.net slash birthday to check it out.
This sale will last until Tuesday, May 19th, so don't delay.
Save $14 on your next Espresso English course when you join today.
Let me describe each of the courses so that you can understand them and see which one will be most helpful to you.
Our most popular course is Phrasal Verbs in Conversation, which teaches you 500 phrasal verbs naturally through dialogues.
If you want to be fluent in English, you need to know phrasal verbs like take off, get over and put up with, because native speakers use them all the time.
So this course is one of the easiest ways to learn phrasal verbs in context.
Two more of our top courses are Everyday English Speaking, Levels 1 and 2.
These focus on the phrases and expressions that native English speakers use in daily life.
Level one of the course teaches you practical phrases, and level two teaches you more advanced expressions.
You can also record yourself speaking and get feedback from a teacher on your spoken English.
If you're interested in building your vocabulary, then check out our Vocabulary Builder courses, levels one and two.
Each level teaches you over a thousand words organized by topic to help you express yourself better.
We also have advanced vocabulary and collocations with over a thousand high-level words to make your English really impressive.
You'll learn the advanced words, learn how to put them together naturally and practice them so you won't forget.
One of our newer courses is called Bite-Sized Stories, which teaches you English naturally through stories.
Read a daily story and learn useful words and phrases in context so you can remember them better.
You'll understand grammar easily and naturally because you see it used in the story and you'll actually enjoy and look forward to your English time each day.
If you'd like to focus more on your pronunciation, the American English Pronunciation course and Shadowing with Shaina course help you speak clearly, correctly and confidently.
You'll practice all the sounds of American English, make the difference between similar sounds and practice connecting words for more natural spoken English.
These courses also include a personalized pronunciation evaluation by a teacher.
Listening is another huge part of English fluency, and that's why we have a listening course to help you improve your comprehension with step-by-step exercises.
The listening lessons will help you practice listening to English and understanding native speakers, and the course includes both slow and fast audios with a variety of voices and accents.
If you're learning English for your job or career, then check out our Business English course to learn practical English for professional situations, common phrases for interviews meetings negotiations, conversations with customers and coworkers, and so much more.
You'll also learn essential business English vocabulary in areas like finance marketing entrepreneurship, project management and other topics.
This course will help you speak English more confidently at work.
Speaking of confidence, you can speak a lot more confidently when you know you're not making tons of mistakes.
Our 200 Common Errors in English course can help you learn how to avoid embarrassing mistakes in grammar vocabulary spelling, pronunciation and more.
These errors are the most common ones made by learners of every level of English, from beginner to intermediate to advanced students.
I'll show you how to fix them so you can be sure your English is correct.
We also have a reading course, so if you want to read texts in English more easily and comfortably, these lessons will help you improve your reading skills.
They have step-by-step reading practice so you can test your understanding of the text, discover new words in context and practice the vocabulary you learned.
More advanced students will enjoy the Advanced English Grammar course, which helps you master English grammar by learning verb tenses, advanced sentence structure nouns adjectives adverbs, prepositions and lots more.
The lessons will help you not only understand English grammar rules, but also put grammar into use in your own English.
You can even send in your written English for correction.
And last but not least, our 300 plus English idioms course is an effective way to learn idiomatic expressions.
First you'll guess the meaning of English idioms from examples.
Then watch my explanation to learn them.
Take the quiz to review and practice and then answer short questions with teacher feedback, to use the idioms in your own English
Again, all of these courses are on sale during our birthday sale.
So if you're interested in a few of them, you can get the birthday discount on each one.
Visit espressoenglish.net slash birthday to celebrate with us and shop the sale.
Here's to another year of effective English lessons at amazing prices.
If you want more great English lessons, visit EspressoEnglishnet, where you can sign up by email to receive a free e-book with 500 plus real English phrases.
You'll also find online courses to help you improve your English fast, even if you don't have much time to study.
Keep practicing your English and I hope you have a wonderful day.
