Send us a text This is the final episode of the Podcast "Sound Practice Language Learning." I will rename the Podcast as Next Step ELT (Education, Learning, & Technology) and broaden the podcast to talk more about education in general. Questionnaire: https://forms.gle/AJeQa5eJAB98Qwuz9 (until March 15) I invite you to help shape the future of this podcast and help me understand how I can help you with your education goals. This is an anonymous questionnaire (no email needed). Please help me ...
Mar 03, 2025•5 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Send us a text Today I will talk about my visit back home to the US (from China) and an accident with fireworks! You can find the transcript for today's episode here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/visit-back-home/ Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step ELT (Education, Language, & Technology) with a broader focus on education. The old content for Sound Practice Language Learning can be found here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/soundpractice/...
Oct 17, 2024•11 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Send us a text Today I will talk about some of the friends I've made here in China who are into wildlife, especially snakes! You can find the transcript for today's episode here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/snake-friends-in-china/ Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step ELT (Education, Language, & Technology) with a broader focus on education. The old content for Sound Practice Language Learning can be found here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/s...
Oct 17, 2024•14 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Send us a text Today I will talk about raising tadpoles into frogs this past summer, and why you should give it a try too! You can find the transcript for today's episode here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/frogs-this-summer/ Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step ELT (Education, Language, & Technology) with a broader focus on education. The old content for Sound Practice Language Learning can be found here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/soundpra...
Oct 16, 2024•13 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text Today I will talk about one of my biggest running achievements of all! Where I ran 50km in 5 hours. Considering I can barely run 10km in under 2 hours now at 120kg, you'd be surprised by this story! You can find the transcript for today's episode here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/running-50km-in-5-hours/ Please like, subscribe, and share with anyone else who you think would enjoy this podcast! Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step...
Oct 15, 2024•11 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Send us a text Today I will talk about a time in my life when I went from being a couch potato to being able to run marathons! You can find the transcript for today's episode here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/my-running-story/ Please like, subscribe, and share with anyone else who you think would enjoy this podcast! Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step ELT (Education, Language, & Technology) with a broader focus on education. The old conten...
Oct 14, 2024•9 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text Today I will talk about some of the pets that I had when I was a little kid and also about some of the cool pets of other family members! You can find the transcript for today's episode here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/ pets-as-a-kid / Please like, subscribe, and share with anyone else who you think would enjoy this podcast! Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step ELT (Education, Language, & Technology) with a broader focus on ...
Oct 13, 2024•11 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text Today I will talk about a time when I caught a big water snake as a kid. You can find the transcript for today's episode here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/ catching-a-mother-snake Please like, subscribe, and share with anyone else who you think would enjoy this podcast! Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step ELT (Education, Language, & Technology) with a broader focus on education. The old content for Sound Practice Language Le...
Oct 12, 2024•11 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text Today I will talk about a time when my grandmother helped save and raise two wild animals that others probably would not have helped. We will talk about skunks! You can find the transcript for today's episode here: https://mathewarmstrong.com/raising-baby-skunks/ Please like, subscribe, and share with anyone else who you think would enjoy this podcast! Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step ELT (Education, Language, & Technolog...
Oct 11, 2024•10 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Send us a text In this episode I catch you up on what I've been doing for the past 3 years and how I'm going back to school to learn more about Science, Math, and Computers... and I'm coming from a language teaching background! You can find the transcript here for the episode: https://mathewarmstrong.com/38-and-back-to-school/ Support the show Sound Practice Language Learning will be rebranded soon to be Next Step ELT (Education, Language, & Technology) with a broader focus on education. The...
Oct 10, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Send us a text This is a new and longer episode. I have included two Christmas stories. One from my childhood and one from last year. From now on I will be making more podcasts, more stories, and giving language learning tips. 00:00-05:09: Introduction to the new format for the podcast 05:10-10:47: What is happening in my life and other news 10:48-14:18: Language learning tip 1--> Keeping study activities balanced 14:19-27:12: Story 1--> Christmas when I was little 27:13-33:00: Automaticit...
Dec 27, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us a text I've been really busy lately with life. This podcast has received over 3500 views so far! If you are an intermediate or upper-intermediate learner of English you will find my speaking very comprehensible and I use natural English and speak in a very casual way without a script so that you can practice listening to real English being used. In this podcast I give everyone an update about what I've been doing. I talk about: moving house; a new addition to the family that we will have...
Oct 23, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a text Moses McCormick was someone who I wish I had met and gotten to know. Unfortunately he has passed away. We all might have someone we admire or look up to. If you can, you should try to find a way to reach out and let them know. In this episode, I talk about one of my top inspirations for getting into language learning. Having trouble listening? Please go to my website and you will find a transcript so that you can read along. For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my websi...
Mar 18, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a text It's been a while! The podcast is back! Today I'm going to talk a bit about staying positive with language learning and tell how to avoid negative thinking that can ruin your learning. Having trouble listening? Please go to my website and you will find a transcript so that you can read along. For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstrong.com/ soundpractice / The transcript for this current podcast episode may take some time to edit and upload. So plea...
Mar 14, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us a text Here I talk about the time I learned how to ride my bicycle and my first accident on a bicycle! As my the title suggests, this is just the first little accident in my long hobby of cycling! There will be more bicycle stories to come! Having trouble listening? Please go to my website and you will find a transcript so that you can read along. For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstrong.com/ soundpractice / The transcript for this current podcast episo...
Jan 16, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text Chapter 8 of 8 This is the final chapter of the story! Make sure you listen to Chapters 1 to 7 first. This story is about a little boy named Dolor. He was a Prince. When he was just a baby his mother and father died. He could not walk like other boys. Then his uncle Tom became King. The poor Prince was sent away to live in a tower for all his days. Until one day… This book has been made for learners of English who have a vocabulary of 1000 words. For the transcripts, you can go to...
Jan 06, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text Chapter 7 of 8 This is the seventh chapter of the story! Make sure you listen to Chapters 1-6 first. This story is about a little boy named Dolor. He was a Prince. When he was just a baby his mother and father died. He could not walk like other boys. Then his uncle Tom became King. The poor Prince was sent away to live in a tower for all his days. Until one day… This book has been made for learners of English who have a vocabulary of 1000 words. For the transcripts, you can go to ...
Jan 06, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text Chapter 6 of 8 This is the sixth chapter of the story! Make sure you listen to Chapters 1-5 first. This story is about a little boy named Dolor. He was a Prince. When he was just a baby his mother and father died. He could not walk like other boys. Then his uncle Tom became King. The poor Prince was sent away to live in a tower for all his days. Until one day… For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstrong.com/ soundpractice / The transcript for this c...
Jan 06, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a text Chapter 5 of 8 This is the fifth chapter of the story! Make sure you listen to Chapters 1-4 first. This story is about a little boy named Dolor. He was a Prince. When he was just a baby his mother and father died. He could not walk like other boys. Then his uncle Tom became King. The poor Prince was sent away to live in a tower for all his days. Until one day… For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstrong.com/ soundpractice / The transcript for this c...
Jan 06, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a text Chapter 4 of 8 This is the fourth chapter of the story! Make sure you listen to Chapters 1, 2, and 3 first. This story is about a little boy named Dolor. He was a Prince. When he was just a baby his mother and father died. He could not walk like other boys. Then his uncle Tom became King. The poor Prince was sent away to live in a tower for all his days. Until one day… For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstrong.com/ soundpractice / The transcript f...
Jan 06, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a text Chapter 3 of 8 This is the third chapter of the story! Make sure you listen to Chapters 1 and 2 first. This story is about a little boy named Dolor. He was a Prince. When he was just a baby his mother and father died. He could not walk like other boys. Then his uncle Tom became King. The poor Prince was sent away to live in a tower for all his days. Until one day… This book has been made for learners of English who have a vocabulary of 1000 words. For the transcripts, you can go t...
Jan 06, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us a text Chapter 2 of 8 This is the second chapter of the story! Make sure you listen to Chapter 1 first. This story is about a little boy named Dolor. He was a Prince. When he was just a baby his mother and father died. He could not walk like other boys. Then his uncle Tom became King. The poor Prince was sent away to live in a tower for all his days. Until one day… This book has been made for learners of English who have a vocabulary of 1000 words. For the transcripts, you can go to this...
Jan 06, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text Chapter 1 of 8 This is the first chapter of the story! This story is about a little boy named Dolor. He was a Prince. When he was just a baby his mother and father died. He could not walk like other boys. Then his uncle Tom became King. The poor Prince was sent away to live in a tower for all his days. Until one day… This book has been made for learners of English who have a vocabulary of 1000 words. For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstrong.com/ ...
Jan 05, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text In this episode I talk about something scary that happened to me and my cousin Shawn when we were trying to make pizza bread on our own. The pizza bread turned out all right and it was delicious! But there was one problem with our baking . The retelling of this story constant source of laughter whenever I look back on the memory. We lost a lot of hair and took a trip to the hospital, but it was all worth it! For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstro...
Jan 01, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us a text Welcome to the first episode of the podcast. I talk about a memory from my teenage years that still makes me laugh today. I had always loved animals and I was never afraid of snakes, but some things you should just leave alone. This is what I learned many years ago, and my mother never let me forget it! For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstrong.com/ soundpractice / The transcript for this current podcast episode may take some time to edit and uplo...
Dec 31, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Send us a text Short stories in American English for Intermediate English learners. For every episode, I give you a short story using spoken English that is natural. I do not write out my story and read it aloud. All transcripts are available on my website. All transcripts were made after the recording to make sure what you hear is natural, spoken English. For the transcripts, you can go to this page on my website: mathewarmstrong.com/ soundpractice / The transcript for this current podcast epis...
Dec 30, 2020•1 min0
