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English with Nick and Ray (ENR) is a weekly podcast produced by two English language instructors working at IAC Academy of Language and Overseas Study - an English language school based in Japan. If you are a student of English looking for interesting content to help you practice and improve your listening skills, this podcast is for you. Every week Nick and Ray will provide insights into understanding western culture and share some of their experiences living and teaching English in Japan. They will also offer tips and advice to aid you in your studies, with the help of other English language instructors and students, who will appear as in-studio guests. In the final segment of every episode, music buff Ray will give a music recommendation as the ‘ENR song of the week’. Please feel free to submit any questions, thoughts, comments or suggestions you may have about the show to Nick and Ray, either here as a comment on iTunes or through their website: www.theenrpodcast.com.
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2015-09-23 | Nick and Ray catch up at the studio to have a brief conversation about technology. The language points for today are phrases that use the word'worth' and three modern nouns that are often used as verbs. SHOW INFO HERE: www.theenrpodcast.com/2015/09/23... |
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2015-05-02 | Making her first appearance on the podcast, ENR proudly welcomes Shima Rogowski, an instructor at IAC in Tenjin and holder of a perfect score (990) in TOEIC. Shima explains to Nick and Ray how she became interested studying English and describes some o... |
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2015-05-02 | Nick and Ray talk about some of their experiences shopping and offer a number of useful English words and phrases that are sure to come in handy in conversation. The language point for today gives advice about two similar types of adjective that are co... |
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2015-03-01 | ENR wishes everyone a Happy New Year and welcomes Ray back from his visit to LA over the holidays. Nick and Ray look forward to 2015 and discuss making New Year's Resolutions in today's Language Point of the Day. Finally, in his first one for this year... |
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2015-02-17 | In the final episode of ENR for 2014, Nick and Ray look back on the year, discuss wintertime in their home countries and talk about their holiday plans. SHOW INFO HERE: www.theenrpodcast.com/2015/03/01/show-info-episode-10/ |
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2014-12-10 | In another PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED EPISODE from July 2014, ENR welcomes two very special guests to the studio as Yuko Tsukamoto, owner of the very popular bar FACE in Tenjin, and her best friend Migiwa stop by. We also hear audio from Nick and Ray’s visi... |
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2014-12-10 | PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED EPISODE (July, 2014) Today Nick and Ray talk about the World Cup in Brazil and the sports they played growing up. They discuss useful sports phrases such as'favourite' and'underdog' among others. SHOW INFO HERE: www.theenrpodcast... |
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2014-07-13 | Today Nick and Ray talk about movies and respond to a Facebook question. We learn how to use"I'm a big fan of..." when talking about things we like and"It's OVERRATED!" for things we don't like. *A FUNNY SPECIAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS AT THE END OF THE SHOW! ... |
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2014-06-06 | Episode 6 is finally here! Today Nick and Ray talk about music and are joined in-studio by Yoshitaka - a student at IAC and hip-hop MC! The hosts also discuss the phrase'check it out!' SHOW INFO HERE: www.theenrpodcast.com/2014/07/03/episode-6-show-in... |
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2014-04-12 | Today Nick and Ray talk about studying overseas. Special guest Hikari, a student at IAC who just returned to Japan after a year in Canada, stops by the studio for an interview. SHOW INFO HERE: www.theenrpodcast.com/2014/04/12/episode-5-show-info/ |
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