Arsenio’s ESL Podcast | Season 5 Episode 102 | Vocabulary Preview for Reading | Negatives & Positives

We're going to switch gears and go to tourism for a couple of segments. What I have below is positives, and your goal is to match them with their negatives. Following that, I have some questions to discuss before the big reading! slamdisregardpoorertroubleddetrimentaldecayhostileruin growthenhancepraiseadvantageousunconcernedpay attention tobetter offfriendly Tourism companies should do more to keep their...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 116 – Vocabulary + Speaking – Metaphors – Happiness and Sadness

This is a super interesting podcast and one that's very highly sought after because people loved it. Nonetheless, tune into ways you can use metaphors of happiness and sadness, as well as the speaking task in my podcast down below. Complete the metaphors with these words: air, cloud, lift, moon, seventh, up, world Things are...

The Biggest Thing Most Podcasters Do Wrong? 21 Questions

There's one individual, who's extremely tactful (and won't name), who boasts his earnings, mentors, people making money, millionaires, blah blah blah. I don't really care about that....I care about how are you pushing humanity forward. Entrepreneurs, as egotistical as they are, are shoulder shrugs and just a shade of what they could really be. Some...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: TOEIC – Episode 015 – Part 3 Listening – Conversations

For those of you who watched my Facebook live, here are the questions I promised you. For those of you who will watch my YouTube down below, here are the questions -- OF COURSE! Let's get into this. How long has the man been at his current job? a. One year b. Two years c....

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 12 – Developing Vocabulary – Word Formations/Noun Suffixes

More suffixes! They never get old, do they? Let's get into this! I want you guys to decide what type of noun each of these words is and then put the suffixes in the correct column. Words: accuracy, actor, coincidence, happiness, interaction, movement, participant, personality, psychologist, researcher. Noun - abstract/concreteNoun - person-cy = accuracypsychologist. 2....

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 8 – Pronunciation – Can or Can’t?

Boy, I've gone through this on so many occasions over the last couple of weeks, so it's time to finally understand Can and Can't. How do English speakers distinguish between can and can't? Do they depend on the /t/ sound in Can't? Unfortunately, the /t/ often blends into the next word in the phrase. English...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3: The ‘How To’ Guide – How To Start Conversations

So, a very interesting conversation came up last Sunday morning with a student in my Sunday class and she said, "teacher, how do I speak with foreigners?" It's one of the most difficult questions to answer, but in becoming a good conversationalist over the past decade, I know what people want to talk about: themselves!...