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Mother isn't Murder

Adenike Babalola

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Learn English idioms & phrasal verbs from films and speak English NATURALLY like a native speaker.🤓 Hi! I’m Adenike, the host of the Mother isn't Murder Podcast. Improve your English speaking skills with me. Here, I share the English lessons that I learn with you—using Nigerian Pidgin to keep learning fun while making references to Korean 🇰🇷 and my mother tongue, Yoruba.🇳🇬 Disclaimer: All clips are used under the fair use provision for educational purposes, helping learners improve their Eng ...
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Do people misunderstand you when you speak? Are you annoyed by questions about where you’re from? You’ve come to the right place! Make your accent amazing is a podcast about accents, language, and linguistics. We’ll talk about what makes your pronunciation and accent sound non-native and how to improve it. While this podcast mainly deals with the English language, we will also talk about how your mother tongue influences your pronunciation and may even touch upon how to pronounce the sounds ...
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It’s not just a school subject. It’s not just a tool of trade. No. It’s the language of Shakespeare, of Charles Darwin, of Andrew Lloyd Webber, of Steve Jobs, of Winston Churchill. It is the tongue shared by some of the most brilliant minds in the world. Learn it well, and your world will be a lot bigger. And you don’t even have to be born or raised in an English speaking country. With the right training, and a superhuman determination to excel, you too can speak English as expressively and ...
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Anyone who has ever been on a package tour with a group of strangers who soon become friends, and passed time swapping stories with them, would instantly identify with this timeless classic of English literature. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer recounts twenty different stories recounted by a diverse group of pilgrims who gather at The Tabard Inn in Southwark, near London, before setting out for the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The Host of the inn proposes that they entert ...
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The word "that" is a super common word, yet many English learners stress it incorrectly, especially if their native tongue is a language with a rhythm that's different from English's. Speakers of syllable-timed languages such as Spanish, French, Polish, Chinese languages, and other East Asian languages, will pronounce it as the full version but it …
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A subtle feature of certain accents is the lack of /b, d, g/ sounds, the voiced counterpart to /p, t, k/. In addition, various languages devoice /b, d, g/ sounds as a feature of their accent in English. In this episode we examine what voicing is and how to do it so you can sound more native when speaking English and other languages with these sound…
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Ep. 9: 5 Lessons from 'Gifted Hands' - (Part 1) #GiftedHands #BenCarson #EnglishPhrasalVerbs In this episode, we explore 5 powerful English Lessons from Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (a 2009 film), about the life of Dr. Ben Carson, a world-renowned neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins who overcame adversity in childhood. At the end of this episode, y…
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In many languages the letter sequences "tr" and "dr" are fairly simple: it's just a /t/ or /d/ sound followed by an /r/ sound. In English? Not so. Instead, these sounds "affricate", changing to a whole other sound. In today's episode, let's learn what affrication is, show you how to do it, and learn about how this is actually natural process in man…
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Is improving your accent a betrayal of your culture—or just a form of adaptation? In this episode, I dive into the complex relationship between language, identity, and mindset. From stories about my Russian language partner, my British ex, and a college confrontation over pronunciation, to my own struggles with Cantonese and shifting accents, we ex…
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