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Canguro English presents a podcast about language for people learning languages. Just another part of my mission to change the way the world learns English. Education should be FREE and FUN.

If you know me and my work then you know that I talk a lot about identity, and especially how your accent is a big part of your identity: yo...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this bonus episode we t...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we discuss...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we discuss...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

People are passionate about language, especially language change, and words matter. And nobody knows this better Peter Sokolowski, who is an...

In this podcast you will learn how Pygmalion and the Wizard of Oz can teach you the secret to fluency in English that has been causing contr...

It’s an unfortunate fact that many people don’t know the truth about how language works outside of their grammar books, in the real world, b...

There are few people in the world who know as much about where words come from as Mark Forsyth. His first book, The Etymologicon, was a jour...

It’s an unfortunate fact that most of linguistic theory is based on a few major European languages, especially English, which actually damag...

In this podcast you will learn the connection between Pixar, red triangles, information, thought, and fluency. Enjoy!

In this podcast I talk about the positive and negative effects of the weight of expectation, and how living the in past or the future might...

In this episode you'll learn why touching wood, throwing salt, and car accidents can help you to see the truth about learning a language.

In this episode you'll learn why culture connects London taxi drivers, donuts, smiling Japanese people, and Australian shop assistants.

In this episode you'll learn the hard lessons of my army father-in-law, who failed to learn a language after 14 years of 'immersion'.

In this episode you will learn about the differences and similarities between humans and animals, and why you shouldn't take everything you...

In this episode I talk about what mathematics really means, why Mathematicians asked schools to stop teaching calculus, and the parallels be...

Recently I had the pleasure of talking to Remi van Trijp, head of the Language Research Unit and the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in P...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

Recently I had the pleasure of talking to Ted Gibson from his eponymous TedLab at MIT which researches why human languages are the way they...

Are you stupid and lazy? Do you want to speak English perfectly? Then this podcast is for you! We are going to take a journey through the li...

There is no doubt that this is the best time in history to learn a language, especially English. We are surrounded by content in English, En...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

Students ask me all the time if they should learn British English or American English, and in this video you'll discover the real difference...

When you think about improving your writing in English, especially business writing, you probably think about studying lots of rules, and me...

It’s a sad fact that the English that millions of people learn in classrooms all over the world, often doesn’t match the reality of English...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

In the world of language there are few people as experienced, or as respected, as Patsy Lightbown, Distinguished Professor Emerita at Concor...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

Do you want to really succeed at learning English in 2020? It doesn't matter if this is the first or the tenth time you have tried to get fl...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...

Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. My name is Christian Saund...

In the world of English language teaching there are few people as controversial and divisive as Geoff Jordan. He is not afraid of promoting...

Today's daily digest answers a question I get asked every day: How can I get fluent in English? To answer this question we have to travel ba...

Recently I had the pleasure of talking to Angelica Galante from McGill University in Canada. Originally from Brazil, Angelica’s work focuses...

Today's daily digest is a rant about why you might be part of the problem, and not the solution to good language learning (and teaching).

In this podcast I talk to Pete from Aussie English about how to improve your English IMMEDIATELY, without learning anything new. We also tal...

Today's daily digest explains why you are afraid of speaking English, and having conversations, and how you can overcome your fear and use y...

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to cognitive neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko. She is head of EvLab, her own language lab at MIT, and the...

Today's daily digest shows why having a low level of English, and a foreign accent, and only knowing a few key concepts, are all advantages...

Today's daily digest shows what Hindustani music, cave drawings, and Japanese psychology can teach us about linguistic universals, learning...

Today's daily digest talks about gendered languages, sexism, culture, and some common myths and misconceptions about the effect that languag...

In the world of linguistics, there are very few people with a resume as impressive as Adele Goldberg. She has had a major influence on the w...

Today's daily digest shows how your brain is only interested in content, not language, and why it's so important to have something to say. I...

Today's daily digest is a philosophical journey into the meaning of language, what it means to be human, how we could understand and speak a...

I always talk about how important patience is when you’re learning a language, because it’s really hard, and it takes a really long time, an...

In the world of English language learning and teaching there is an obsession with the native speaker. Recently I spoke to someone who explai...