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Accent Over Me
by Gabi Freitas
This podcast is about English and all the struggles we face as second language learners. Hosted by Gabi, a Brazillian girl who's still learning and improving.
Episodes
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Accent Over Me - Ep4 - Why English is difficult
I don't know about you but I think that English is a difficult language to learn. Based on that, I asked some Brazilian friends about their difficulties to learn the language and I tried to find on the internet how they can suffer a little bit less during this process. Hit the play button and…
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Accent Over Me - Ep3 - Slang
Slang words are not in the dictionary. You just find it talking to people. But you can be fluent in a particular language and don't understand some words that somebody just made up. I didn't have so much luck look for them on the internet. So, I ask my husband, who is American, to help us to...
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Accent Over Me - Ep2 - Inspiration
I was thinking about what inspired me to learn English and I found so many reasons that I thought I could share and inspire somebody else too. Hit the play button and let's learn together! And here are the links for the things I'm talking about on this episode if you wanna a deep dive on it: Yoga...
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Accent Over Me - Ep1 - Memory
I was curious about what makes us memorize things that will stay in our brains forever. I've found a lot of research online and even read a book about the brain to find it out. Hit the play button and let's learn together! I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by…
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Introducing Accent Over Me
I thought my accent was a problem and I will never communicate perfectly because of it. It's not true! Now, I'm reconciling with it and even change the name of this podcast! My Accent is all over me, all over us as second language learners. Let's enjoy this ride together, full of pride in being...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep20 - Homographs
Words that spell exactly the same but have different meanings. It's tiresome just to think about it, right? For sure! I have some examples on this episode and some free stuff to learn about swear words and their origins. I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate by leaving...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep19 - Plural-Only Nouns
This is so weird that we have to use some nouns just in their plural forms and in this episode I'm talking about why to translate things between languages cannot work AT ALL! And I have a story about Uncle Sam as well!!! Press the play button and let's learn together! ;) I hope you enjoy the ride...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep18 - Weather vocabs
I always struggle to say how the weather is outside, especially when it's raining. How should I say when there's a light rain out there, for example? It's difficult to have even small talks with native speakers when you don't know such essential vocabulary like that, right? Just hit the play…
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Accent is not that cute - Ep17 - Tongue Twisters
Tongue twisters are good to improve the pronunciation in any language you're trying to learn. Even when you're a native speaker, they help to make you say things faster. I picked 5 difficult tongue twisters that I like and tried to pronounce them correctly and as fast as I can. It's SO...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep16 - Other x Another
I have a lot of trouble using other and another. I never know where to put what. I've found some explanations for that and tried to understand how to use it properly. And I test myself in a quiz to see if I learned it for sure. Click here to take the quiz with me, hit the play button, and let's...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep15 - Guest teacher: Luciana Diniz
It was awesome talking to Luciana Diniz, an English and Portuguese teacher at Portland Community College in Portland (OR) in the United States. She lives abroad for 20 years and knows a lot about English. I made sure to ask you a lot of questions and she gave us a bunch of tips, including her…
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Accent is not that cute - Ep14 - Magic "E" Rule
This is one of the few rules that I really like in English and that I have so much fun talking about it. It's the Magic "E" Rule: it states when the letter “e” sits at the end of the word, it is usually silent and the “magical” E tells the first vowel or the preceding vowel to say its name or…
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Accent is not that cute - Ep13 - Pronouns
This episode is dedicated to my friend Juliana. She's Brazilian like me and has problems with pronouns. I mix them all the time as well and I studied about it to see if I can find a way to learn it faster and don't make so many mistakes. Hit the play button and let's learn together! FREE STUFF:...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep12 - Halloween
Happy Halloween!!!! If you don't live in the United States, you're probably not so familiar with this holiday. But even though you do, maybe you don't know how Halloween started. I'm from Brazil and we don't celebrate it down there which makes me curious about everything. In this episode, I tried...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep11 - Expressions
Do you know what "to show someone the ropes" means? What about "he's not playing with a full deck"? I picked some expressions that people who speak English use all the time to find out what they mean. Do you wanna know what they wanna say when giving someone the cold shoulder? Hit the play button...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep10 - Think in English
This episode was created to answer a question from my dear friend Daianne Schittino: how could I start to think in English? I really don't know how to answer this and I don't remember when English became so natural to me that I could think in this foreign language, but I realize that I did a lot…
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Accent is not that cute - Ep9 - Do or Make
When do we use to do and to make in a sentence? Can we know the difference between them when we're talking or writing? For me, this a frequent mistake because Portuguese just have one verb to use in both cases. If you have some problems with delexical verbs too, press the play button and let's...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep8 - Losing Accent
I'm always looking for ways to get rid of my thick accent. Not because I think it's horrible, but, as I always say, an accent is not that cute if you can't be understood. Doing some research on the internet, I found some tips from native speakers that can improve the way we speak, letting us more...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep7 - Double Letters
English has a lot of words with double letters and when you wanna use gerunds or superlatives it becomes worse. But do you know when you double the letter when you add some ing on it? And how can you tell that a word has a double letter or not? Is it the sound or there's some grammar involved…
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Accent is not that cute - Ep 6 - Basic English for Travelers
The travel section at the book store is full of publications with basic sentences in English to teach you how to communicate in the country's native language. But do you think this is an effective way to talk with people abroad using your second language? In this episode, I talk about some...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep 5 - Prepositions: in, on and at
Prepositions are a mess. Some people say that they don't have rules at all and even when I learned the grammar behind it later, I'm still confused. I was nervous to talk about this subject because I still make a lot of mistakes but I collect some good information from the classes that I took in...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep 4 - Living abroad - Special Guest: Raf
This episode is so special! I have the honor to talk with my dear friend Rafa, known now as Raf since he moved to Canada almost three years ago. We talked about his struggles to learn English and he gave us a lot of tips to improve pronunciation and how to increase our vocabulary as well. I loved...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep 3 - Silent Letters
Do you wanna feel angry about English and the difficulties to learn the language? Just hit the play button! In this episode, I'm talking about one of the most tricky rules this language has: silent letters. I don't even know if I can say there's some rule. Check it out! And if you wanna study...
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Accent is not that cute - Ep 2 - Autological words
In this episode, I'm talking about some words that I always make fun of it: autological words. They're vocabs that describe themselves. Are you curious? Hit the play button and let's have some fun together! And if you wanna study English for free, I talked about Duolingo, a free app that allows…
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Accent is not that cute - Ep 1 - Questions
In this episode, I decided to talk about my journey to learn English, my struggles getting used to it as my second language, and how important is to know how to ask questions to native speakers! I hope you enjoy the ride with me and don't forget to participate leaving me a message on +1 (503)...
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Introducing Accent is not that cute
This podcast is about English and all the struggles we face as second language learners. Hosted by Gabi, a Brazillian girl who's still learning and improving.
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This podcast is about English and all the struggles we face as second language learners. Hosted by Gabi, a Brazillian girl who's still learning and improving.
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Accent Over Me is created and hosted by Gabi Freitas.
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