Category: L3 – Intermediate
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Cambodia is Hard to Talk About
Download as a PDF Watch on YouTube Attributions Even just learning about those experiences, seeing the history, talking to people who had been alive affected me so deeply, like it made me so, so sad that I don’t even want to really talk about the things that I learned. [intro] Welcome to Easy Stories in […]
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Doing Stand-Up Comedy in Chinese
Comedy is hard enough, but doing it in Chinese? Oh, Ariel, you do love a challenge! Hear all about my performance adventures and upcoming travel in this laughs-packed episode.
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It’s My Podcast and I’ll Ramble If I Want To
Have you ever eaten bone marrow? You know, the fat inside of animal bones? Have you ever wondered whether ancient humans sucked out the marrow like a tube of yoghurt? Yeah, that’s the kind of stuff I’ve been doing recently. Have a listen.
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Hangzhou and the Joy of Cycling
Download as a PDF Watch on YouTube Attributions Hello, my lovely learners and welcome to Easy Stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from OK to Good and from Good to Great! I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show. Today’s episode is a conversation about Hangzhou and the joy of […]
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How Slow Can I Go?
Listen to me articulate every word as I discuss unusual beverages, insane apps, Pilates in Chinese, and how I’m feeding you all worms.
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Hello from China!
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Genre: ConversationNew Vocabulary: ‘A fish out of water’, ‘Mad dogs and Englishmen’, Adzuki bean, Apartment complex, Bedside manner, Bullfrog, Bureaucracy, Cicada, Congee, Pale, Red bayberry, Scavenger hunt, SIM card, Sweat, UltrasoundWord Count: 6366Spicy bullfrog, fights with policemen and getting locked out… my first two weeks in China have certainly been eventful!
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I Ate Colin’s Face
In the last week before moving to China, I recount awkward goodbyes, the British tradition of caterpillar-shaped cakes, my sneaky strategy to avoid jet lag, and my super secret language study hacks. Keep listening to learn English!
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Freezing to Death in Scotland
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New Vocabulary: ‘It hits different’, Camper van, Ceilidh, Close the loop, Emotional breakdown, Heart rate variability, Pass rate, Peter Pan syndrome, Puer aeternus, Quaker, RV, ShibbolethWord Count: 5594So I recently went to my cousin’s wedding in Edinburgh, which turned out to be much colder than expected, ESPECIALLY since I was camping! Fortunately, the beauty of the Quaker wedding ceremony more than made up for it. I couldn’t stick around for long, though, as I had to whiz back to London on the train to take the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Sounds boring, but in fact it allowed me…
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I Got Kicked Out!
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New Vocabulary: Ball (party), Bumper cars, Checkmate, Gen Z, Hay fever, Helter skelter, Incense, Joie de vivre, Middle of the road, ShishaWord Count: 6405Yes, that’s right, I was kicked out of a public building… Not only that, I went to a wild party in Cambridge, and I’m setting the house on fire with incense. Sort of.
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The Monkey’s Heart
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Fig, Graceful, Halfway, Indifferent, Nap, Nimble, Ordeal, Send someone your wishes, Toss, X and Y don’t mixWord Count: 1686A monkey shares his figs with a shark, and for a while they are friends, but when the shark invites the monkey to his home under the sea, the monkey suspects that something may be wrong…
