What happens when someone learning English makes a terrible mistake or mispronounces something that results in a tremendous social disaster? Does it make people laugh or does it make them run away in embarrassment? According to cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker, “...you and I belong to a species with a remarkable ability: we can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. That ability is language. Simply by making noises with our mouths, we can reliably cause precise new combinations of ideas to arise in each other's minds.” But what happens when those noises are wrong?

In this episode, Josh talks about his experiences as an English teacher and some of the more hilarious mistakes that his students have made, and how he thinks it’s healthy just to laugh at all the comic mistakes. After all, learning a new language, especially English which is full of exceptions to the exceptions to the rules, is a precarious journey, so let’s have fun along the way, shall we?

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In this podcast I will show you how you can talk about yourself in the past tense using natural and colloquial English. You will learn different ways to talk about your life experiences using the past tense, how to talk about where you are from, where you went to school, things you did when you were younger, how you felt. You will also learn a little bit about me, maybe too much for your (or my) own good!

During the podcast, pay attention to all the different irregular verbs that I use and how I use them to talk about things that I did repeatedly, over and over, in my childhood. There is an interesting structure in English that we use to do this, and maybe you have not seen it or learned it yet.

I hope you enjoy the podcast, and as a contributing member of my Patreon group, you’ll get the opportunity to hear a lot more about me in the past!

Enjoy!

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