The Talking People Podcast: April 2008

Welcome again!

Here are the links where you will find a written version of the audio:
Defending a Position,
Disagreeing & Challenging an Opinion,
Problem-solving, Reaching an Agreement, Moving On, Recap(itulating)

If you’re interested in improving your ability to discuss ideas with people who do not think like you do, please check out this TP website section: Speaking – Discussions.

You will probably have questions about the use of future time verbal phrases! Post your questions and comments here, or on the TP Forum. Thanks for listening. Have a nice day!

What we publish here / Lo que publicamos aquí

The episodes to learn English (EFL) that TP publishes include useful language (lenguaje útil) which you can listen to and repeat, to improve fluency and correction (fluidez y corrección), poems (poemas), which you can learn by heart, and stories (historias), which you can learn to read out loud. More key words we use (más palabras clave que usamos): life-long learning (aprendizaje permanente), communicative methods (métodos comunicativos), communicative strategies (estrategias comunicativas), language functions (funciones del lenguaje), functional grammar (gramática funcional), textual analysis (análisis textual), textual structure (estructura textual), nonviolent communication (comunicación noviolenta), inclusive language or non-sexist language (lenguaje inclusivo o lenguaje no machista), literature (literatura) including experimental literature (literatura experimental).