The Level Up English Podcast

Jan 15 2025 310 ep. 31 mins 1k

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🇬🇧 I'm Michael Lavers and this podcast will help you improve your English. I'm an online English teacher for students learning as a second language. In this podcast, I answer your questions about learning and help you achieve your goals in British English. Once a month I talk to a teacher or expert on topics related to language.

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#307 Avoid These Common English Mistakes

Jan 15 2025 31 mins

For the past 6 months, I've been noting down the most common mistakes I see English learners make in preparation for this episode.I go through them one by one and give examples from my own life to give you some context for each one and show you how they're used.Some of these are simple mistakes, and others look at the subtle differences between two similar phrases.Show notes page -

#306 How to Improve by Tracking Your English Studies

Jan 08 2025 35 mins

I've been tracking my own language learning for over a year and it's amazing to see my progress and time invested over that period. In this episode, I share with you the lessons from tracking all this data every day for one year, the benefits of doing so, and why doing something similar might be beneficial to you.Don't forget to join the discussion by leaving a comment in the shown

#305 How to Plan for Success in the New Year

Jan 01 2025 42 mins

As an annual tradition here on the podcast, let's talk about New Year Resolutions! I'll be talking about how 2024 went for me - looking at work goals, personal goals, and bucket list goals.I then move onto looking ahead to 2025 and plan for the year ahead. A lot can change, but I'm discussing some goals I have for the upcoming year with the goal of enjoying the year and learning mo

#304 Five Christmas Traditions from Around the World

Dec 25 2024 36 mins

In this episode, we'll be going around the world to 5 different countries and looking at their different Christmas traditions. While doing this, I'll be sharing one expression with each one that you can use in daily conversations at any time of the year.I also talk a little bit about the differences in my experience between Christmas in Thailand and the UK.Merry Christmas and Happy

#303 English Expressions for Teamwork with Emma

Dec 18 2024 51 mins

Today I'm joined by Emma (Adventure into English) for a conversation about group vs solo activities. Emma has been helping with the group classes at Level Up English for some time now, so it's an appropriate topic for today. We start by discussing some Would You Rather questions for activities that can be done as a group or on your own.We then move onto some English expressions aro

#302 18 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health

Dec 11 2024 44 mins

Mental Health is something we should all take seriously and I believe there's a lot of crossover between language learning and having a healthy mindset. This was a request from a listener to cover this topic. Although I am of course, not a professional, I do love the topic, so I share 18 different methods that I used to improve my own mental health and bring happiness into my life.

#301 Saying 'Sorry' Like a British Person

Dec 04 2024 49 mins

You may know that British people are famous for using the word 'sorry' all the time.In this episode, I talk about this habit and how much truth is behind it, but I also share the different situations in which we would say 'sorry' in the UK - and maybe more generally in the English-speaking world too.Sorry is so much more than a word used when you make a mistake and it can have many

#300 Life Experiences and Present Perfect Tense with Akari (Nihongo For You)

Nov 27 2024 37 mins

In Episode 300 of the podcast, Akari from the Nihongo For You podcast joins me today for a chat about teaching languages, moving abroad, and learning English.In the second half of the episode, we talk about life experiences where I ask Akari questions using the present perfect tense about things she has done before. It's a great opportunity to practice the grammar and see it used i

#299 Why We Always Want More (Hedonic Adaptation)

Nov 20 2024 35 mins

In my last episode, I spoke about my cycling trip to Taiwan. While there, I had a lot of time alone to think to myself with no distractions. In this episode today, I'm going to share some of the things I was thinking about.One of these was the idea of Hedonic Adaptation (also known as the Hedonic Treadmill). This is something that we all face as humans and might just be the key to

#298 I Cycled 1000km Around Taiwan

Nov 13 2024 64 mins

I took 2 weeks off in October to ride a bicycle around the whole of Taiwan. It was over 1000km and took about 2 weeks to complete. Along the way, I had both good and bad experiences and there's a lot I'd love to share!I also filmed a lot of videos of my cycle, so if you'd like to see, you can watch this episode on YouTube - The Level Up English Podcast.This is perhaps the longest s