This edition of the podcast features a native speaker Bill, a pastor from the USA. He came to visit a friend of his in the Czech Republic. We met in the school where I am teaching at the moment. He agreed to record an episode of Zdenek's English Podcast. In this interview we talk about Bill's job, religion, and history. We try to confront common American stereotypes. The last but not least, Bill also tells us what it feels like to be visiting the Czech Republic. If you listen carefully, you will...
Nov 02, 2014•45 min
For this episode I decided to skypecall my colleague José from Chile. I call him my colleague for two reasons. First, he is a teacher by profession just like me and second, he has his own podcast in English in which he often interviews native speakers. We immerse ourselves in a debate about various topics. At the beginning I ask José to give us some geographical awareness of Chile and then we continue discussing education, learning languages, and teaching in general. José also tells us a bit abo...
Oct 28, 2014•1 hr
Do you remember Monika from the episode A Word with a Future Manager Living in London? And do you remember how Monika invited me to visit her in th UK? Well guess what? I took her up on it this summer. Obviously I couldn't let the opportunity to do some podcasting with her slip through my fingers. We did this episode in the nick of time right before my departure. So what can you expect from this one? First of all, you will have a chance to catch up with latest news about Monika and her promotion...
Oct 20, 2014•51 min
This episode was recorded on the day I took the final test with my foreign students. In the evening, we went to a bar and drank a bit and I used the opportunity to introduce my students to my podcast. The conversation we had was totally unscripted so everything was recorded on the spur of the moment. The occasional ramble which was, however, at times mixed with profound debate was inevitable. In a nutshell, we touch upon about various topics such as aliens, languages,parallel universes, literatu...
Oct 16, 2014•58 min
In this episode I and my cousin go for a beer and we made an amazing decision to play a spontaneous game in which we profoundly ramble, ramble and ramble...and we recorded it all of course :) If you wonder why we got to T and the podcast ends there without saying "Bye", it is because my recorder ran out of memory and switched off without giving me any warning. We actually did finish playing the game and my last word was Zombie :)
Oct 10, 2014•1 hr 4 min
This brand new episode partially reveals the truth behind how I managed to get hold of my master's degree. I will be reading you selected chapters from my diploma thesis so brace yourselves for a high level academic language of linguistics. Should you prefer my more human side, in this edition of the podcast you can also hear about my latest experiences, plans, relationship updates and drug addiction relapses.
Sep 29, 2014•46 min
This episode features a native speaker - Kevin from the USA, an English teacher working in Brazil. He can, in my opinion, be considered an inspirational figure for all English teachers around the world as he developed his own unique teaching style. I basically agree with his approach and most of his ideas about teaching. In this episode Kevin serves a lot of valuable advice to all learners of English as a second language. If you struggle to motivate yourself or don't exactly know how to take you...
Sep 14, 2014•57 min
This is another interview of the series I recorded in England. This time it features my good friend Franta. Franta, a former radio Dj and football player in the Czech Republic, describes his fascinating experiences of moving over to London and later to Brighton ultimately becoming a hotel manager in the latter city. Since when he first came to the UK, he had zero English and worked as a kitchen porter, his story, which is full of hard-work, skill and positive attitude is worthy of respect. The w...
Sep 06, 2014•52 min
This episode was recorded in Bristol (England). It features my friend John who settled down there. As a part of my English holiday I visited him and we recorded this episode. We talk about various things such John’s previous and possible future job. As part of this, I learnt the word lollipopman by the way. We also touch upon solar panel energy, guinea pigs and last but not the least we think had about the position of Czech immigrants in British society. There is also a brief lesson into Czech h...
Aug 31, 2014•50 min
This double episode is devoted my listeners. In each part you can listen to an audio message I received from a listener of the podcast. In this (second part) I'm answering namely to 2 questions which a long-time listener Daniel from Italy sent me. If you want to know more about my hometown Podebrady and also the Czech comedy group Jára Cimrman, this is episode is exactly for you.
Aug 19, 2014•51 min
This double episode is devoted my listeners. In each part you can listen to an audio message I received from a listener of the podcast. In this particular one, I am responding to questions sent by a listener from Hungary called Gabor. He asks more or less about DOTA, the computer game I was hooked on for a long time.
Aug 15, 2014•37 min
In this podcast episode you will have chance to listen to Roman, my countryman who happened to have passed the CPE exam at grade A. In our interview we discuss various topics because Roman is an inspiring guy in various aspects. He is a passionate fisherman, a up-and-coming table tennis player and his spoken English is for a non-native spekaer abolutely brilliant. If you want to learn some useful English idioms and expressions, if you want to find out what the difference between table tennis and...
Aug 11, 2014•47 min
This edition is a direct continuation of the previous one. I and Vika keep chatting about relationships. We attempt to divide types of relationships, we touch upon the questions such as "Does the best friend exist?", "Is it possible to be a friend with woman if you are a man?" Is one night stand more for men?" "Should men cry?" and a lot more.
Aug 07, 2014•32 min
This episode features a recorded discussion which I had with my former private Ukrainian student called Victoria about 2 months. The theme was centred upon the popular subject of relationships, differences between men and women and picking up routines. Vika is an interesting young girl who has a lot to say on this topic and since her English is at advanced level, she is also very enjoyable to listen to. What kind of person is Vika and why on earth did she collect my notes from our lesson even th...
Aug 05, 2014•35 min
This edition of the podcast is an indirect sequel to the interview with Luke Thompson, namely episode 75 - part 1. I took out bits and pieces from our conversation, focusing on interesting vocabulary as well as the mistakes I commited and decided to analyse them. Besides giving you my own examples and throwing in more items of vocabulary which I have recently learnt, I am trying to respond to my critics who to a certain extent rightly suggested that I may have gone too far as to my emotions surr...
Aug 04, 2014•50 min
At the beginning Luke will tell you what his friends think about him putting so much time into doing his podcast. After that we change roles on Luke starts asking me questions such as: What is my favourite thing about doing the podcast and what kind of episode I like doing most. Arguably, the icing on the cake of the whole interview is when Luke outlines a situation of a zombie attack in the park. I am asked to consider my first course of action and then we both speculate about the whole scenari...
Aug 01, 2014•38 min
This is the second part of the interview with Luke Thompson, the author of Luke's English Podcast. What was Luke's initial reaction when I told him about my idea of starting my own podcast? What would have Luke said to me if had been a lawyer? Where is Luke rightly drawing the line and what kind of advice is he giving me? What kind of motivating words does Luke give me and in what way does he think my podcast can become unique? We also spend some time talking about Guillaume, the Swiss guy whom ...
Jul 30, 2014•45 min
This is by far the greatest moment for this podcast so far. For this interview I travelled to Great Britain to meet up with Luke Thompson, a stand-up comedian, English teacher and most importantly the person who made Luke’s English Podcast – the best English podcast for English learners on the internet. Just to remind everyone, he also happens to be the reason I started doing my own podcast. This is the first part of a three-part interview with him. The whole interview was recorded in St. James’...
Jul 30, 2014•47 min
In this 4-part series I am gonna be telling you all about my holiday in England which I went on in July 2014. So if you want to know what friends and other people I visited there, what experiences I had, and how it all made me feel, this is the right episode for you. In this final episode of this series, I will sum up my whole holiday in England. I will tell what kind of impact it had on me. I did publicly set myself an aim, which feels slightly binding now. The plan is ambitious and it is not g...
Jul 28, 2014•30 min
In this 4-part series I am gonna be telling you all about my holiday in England which I went on in July 2014. So if you want to know what friends and other people I visited there, what experiences I had, and how it all made me feel, this is the right episode for you. In this particular episode, I will be speaking about how I met Luke Thompson in London. It was an emotional moment for me since I felt completely starstruck. The first entry is recorded just about 15 minutes after the end of our mee...
Jul 28, 2014•40 min
In this 4-part series I am gonna be telling you all about my holiday in England which I went on in July 2014. So if you want to know what friends and other people I visited there, what experiences I had, and how it all made me feel, this is the right episode for you. In this particular episode, you I can hear me talking in a slightly nostalgic way when crossing the English Channel on a ferry. There are 3 entries from Bristol: 2 in the middle of the Bristol Harbour Festival. John, Pepson and his ...
Jul 27, 2014•29 min
In this 4-part series I am gonna be telling you all about my holiday in England which I went on in July 2014. So if you want to know what friends and other people I visited there, what experiences I had, and how it all made me feel, this is the right episode for you. In this particular episode, you will get acquinted with my objectvies for this holiday. You will probably notice that I was in a kind of travel fever mode - excited about the whole trip so to speak. There are 3 entries altogether - ...
Jul 27, 2014•22 min
In this double episode I called Guillaume, a long-time ZEP podcast fan from Switzerland. It was not his podcasting debut as he has his own Guillaume's English Podcast. Among others we talked about his country Switzerland, his experience of meeting Luke from Luke's English Podcast and also about the benefits of running one's own podcast. Guillaume also made it clear which episodes of Zdenek's English Podcast he considers the best. This file is the second part actually and at the end of this, you ...
Jul 19, 2014•29 min
In this double episode I called Guillaume, a long-time ZEP podcast fan from Switzerland. It was not his podcasting debut as he has his own Guillaume's English Podcast. Among others we talked about his country Switzerland, his experience of meeting Luke from Luke's English Podcast and also about the benefits of running one's own podcast. Guillaume also made it clear which episodes of Zdenek's English Podcast he considers the best. In the second part of this edition, you will be able to find the l...
Jul 17, 2014•35 min
This episode was not planned at all. After watching the demolition of the Brazilian national team by Germany, I took the initiative and called a native speaker Ethan (you might know him from previous episodes) to hear his own comments on this amazing match. We spoke about the match, about how both nations’ supporters must feel now and how their feelings can idiomatically be expressed in English. We also briefly touched upon the England national team as well as Luis Suaréz. After the Skype call p...
Jul 09, 2014•29 min
This is the second part of the interview with my cousin about the World Cup. What football teams could we hypotetically play for in the World Cup considering our skills? Why did Lusi Suarez bite the Italian player? What are our theories behind this incident. We also try to answer questions from the listeners and at the end you can listen to a short language analysis.
Jul 08, 2014•36 min
In this episode we got together with my cousin Honza to talk about the ongoing World Cup in Brazil. In the first part we talk about who we think might win it, who our favourite teams are and we also touch upon the fact that Muslim players didn't drink during the match because of Ramadan. After this there is a language analysis part in which my dog also makes an appearanace.
Jul 08, 2014•42 min
This is another from the popular series about me and my cousin's journey to civilization. This one was recorded in autumn and there is a language analysis section added, too.
Jul 04, 2014•42 min
This is a special heart-to-heart episode about my feelings of being betrayed. Basically, you have a unique opportunity to witness me speaking my heart out How exciting! (sarcasm) (I should have been born as Latin American I guess - I have no stiff upper lip whatsoever) More importantly, I will explain some vocabulary connected to the act of betrayal and I will also read out a slighly difficult poem by Walt Whitman.
Jul 03, 2014•33 min
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