Hello. I’m Marco the German. This is the first episode, or rather episode 0 of my podcast, which shall be called A Word a Week.
I have been studying the English language for more than 10 years, since 2000 and I even spend one year in High School. Over the years I have stumbled across some very distinctive words, which I want to share with you. This will be a podcast for people who are interested in the English language, no matter what their level is.
I am using The Concise Oxford Dictionary, the second edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, dict.cc, wiktionary.org and other sources.
From time to time, I will do a special episode which I call a spotlight episode. This episode is not about a word, but about a topic, that might be of interest to you.
About the format: I will post episodes every Sunday. I will try to keep them short, but I will do longer episodes now and then. I chose this format, because I listen to a lot of podcasts and I myself enjoy this type of format the most.
I will be presenting mostly words that I myself did not know a couple of years ago, thereby trying to give you content that I would have very much liked to have listened to then.
Here is one thing I learned about learning a language: If you don’t understand something, just keep on reading or listening, especially if there are multiple words that give you trouble. You will eventually figure out what they mean because of the context. Always feel free to look up a word (or ask me!), but remember that if you are new to the language, this might be very tiring.
By the way: Doing a podcast might be tiring, too. But as I have already written more than 52 scripts, you can be sure that this podcast will last for at least one year.
My E-Mail address is awordaweek@hotmail.de. Feel free to write to me, if you know some words that I could talk about or if you have suggestions, compliments or feedback. I would really like to know, if my pronunciation is right, whether I talk to slow or too quickly and if I can improve in any way.
It would also be interesting to know, who my listeners are and where they come from. So, again, just drop me a line: awordaweek@hotmail.de
This is the script to an episode.
You can listen to this episode at: awordaweek.podomatic.com
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