Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Mini-Series – Self-Sabotage – Five Speakers from Around The World

So unbelievably grateful to be launching a new series (mini-series) on my podcast over the next five weeks that talks about self-sabotage.  What is self-sabotage? That’s you making a poor decision which ultimately jeopardizes you from achieving success.  We make decisions all the time that are detrimental to all parties that are involved, so I …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 49 – Developing Writing – A Film Review

Work with a friend, partner, sibling or anyone and rank these, from 1-10 (1 = not important, 10 = very important) when deciding to watch a film. In the podcast down below….. the star and supporting actors the genre (comedy, science fiction, etc) the plot the length the special effects and visuals the soundtrack the …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: International Guest Speaker: Veronika of Russia on Cultural Exchange & Humble

Finally! For the first time in my life, I’ve got myself a charismatic, driven, personable Russian friend! I’ve been wanting to get some awesome Russian folks on my podcast for the longest, so this is going to be a doozy! Veronika, who’s from Russia but living in Vancouver, does a wide-variety of things. Here are …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 36 – Speaking Skill – Giving Examples

In order to express your ideas clearly and convincingly, it is important to give examples. Many learners of English use the phrase “for example,” but research shows this expression is used too often. The expressions below are more frequently used in academic English. An example of…..is…../ ……is a classic example of…./A prime example of this …

Introducing My Patreon: Silver Badge (ESL Learners) Sneak Peek #1

Boy, this has been a long-waited launch. Since the beginning of my podcast, which I’ll post at the bottom of the page, I always asked myself how can I give more and monetize? After listening to various opinions of people who have ALREADY BEEN THERE, I finally created a four-tier badge system on Patreon to …

One-Year Anniversary! Arsenio’s ESL Podcast!

I was consulting an ex-colleague and he told me, “your personal development podcast doesn’t have information, and it’s hard for people to go down the list and find information.” “If you do an English language podcast, learn from that.” My goal was to do only pronunciation (thank the universe I didn’t), but then I implemented …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 16 – Grammar – Another & Other

Welcome back to another ESL podcast, everyone! This is going to be a short one, but so many of my students have asked me about the differences between another and other. Here’s the breakdown of it. Other can be an adjective or a noun. Only the noun can be plural. I prefer the other book. …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Upper Intermediate – Introduction & Course Outline

WELCOME TO THE UPPER INTERMEDIATE LEVEL! So so grateful to give this introduction to you guys and a firm outline of what to expect. This will probably be the longest season yet, so you’ll have to sit back, do the tasks and enjoy the ride. Grammar I. Reflexive pronouns II. Use of can for universal …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 77 – Grammar – Season Finale – Question Tags – Part II

Welcome to the finale! I just want to say thank you so much for this amazing season. A very LONGGGG season, but so grateful for the process. No, I won’t be stopping podcasts because that will disrupt the learning flow and learning is constant and every-going. There are some things I might do like breaks …

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 76 – Grammar – Indirect Questions

Indirect questions can be confusing, so I decided to go over them with you guys. We use question marks when the first part of the sentence is a question. Have you any idea what time he’s coming? When there is no question word (who, what, where, etc), we use if/whether. I’d like to know whether …