Rich English Podcast Season 2

Rich English podcast

At long last, the Rich English podcast Season 2 has begun. At the time of writing, I am now two episodes in and planning on publishing one new episode every week on Wednesdays. The new format is not so heavy on the business owner interviews and will feature much more everyday real conversation topics as well as keeping you up to date with the latest smart learning techniques to improve your English. If you would like to learn some new idioms, phrasal verbs, and general vocabulary on a range of topics in English, make sure you subscribe or follow.

How to Listen to the Rich English Podcast

The Rich English podcast is available on all the usual platforms: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Audible, Amazon, and many more, and of course, here on my own website. Click Rich English Podcast to start listening now.

Rich English Podcast Season 1

Season 1 highlights include interviews with Marketa Horáková of Terepie v Lese, Petr Fodor of AppAgent, and Jiří Benedikt. There are also episodes on how to establish good English habits and how to remember English vocabulary.

Video Courses on Hold

Since fixing the website and going with a new theme that ‘disappeared’ our video learning platform, we have decided to put video courses on hold for the time being. At some point in the near future I’m sure we will reopen the courses and add new online English video courses too. Watch this space. Actually, don’t watch this space as nothing will happen here, but, keep an eye on the Richard Hill English Facebook feed, YouTube channel, Instagram and Linkedin for updates.

Time to Touch Base

My English Journal by Richard Hill English, an English notebook with a difference

So here he is again with another random, out of the blue post. We haven’t heard from you in ages Richard, what have you been doing? Well, I’m still working face-to-face via Skype, Teams and in person. I have taken on new students in a couple of local businesses, one which is a quarry for refractory materials and the other which imports classic American cars. If you need business in either of those areas I can put you in touch. Otherwise, I am mainly working on a new project for you all, more on that in a bit.

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Broken Website

First of all, I’d just like to apologise for my broken website (did you notice?) The site is still up and some pages are functioning including the video courses which if you are still subscribed to you can access via this link. However, the homepage is not accessible so if you need to you can log in here. Are you a WordPress expert? Can you help me solve the issue? Please get in touch 🙂 – Note: This has now been solved, thank you Yasin Ali.

2023 Anyone?

So how was 2023 for you? Did anything remarkable happen? Did you take the holiday of a lifetime? Make huge leaps forward with your English learning. At my end, it wasn’t my greatest year but I have made more of a considerable effort with my Czech learning and have found a new podcast that suits me. I listen to it each morning, an episode lasts around 15 minutes and I note down any new words or phrases. On the whole, I’m pretty pleased as (I think) I understand most of what’s said, and the podcast is aimed at intermediate-level speakers of Czech as a foreign language. Do you regularly listen to podcasts in English? Let me know what they are so I can recommend them to my students. Of course, I have my own Rich English podcast and you can expect some new episodes coming soon in the new year. I also recommend Luke’s English Podcast, one of the longest-running pods out there.

My English Journal, an English notebook with a difference.

My English Journal

The new project I mentioned has actually been in process for over three years. Indeed some of the material I started working on almost eight years ago in the form of blog posts. What is it? It’s called My English Journal and it’s a book! The format is roughly B5 like a standard size diary/journal with half the book bringing you my research from over the years into how you can best improve your English. Currently, I am working on amendments suggested by my editor, while I have already had some wonderful illustrations done for the book by Kateřina Čápová who was recommended to me by my designer Sona from Ginger&Fred.

The book includes sections on mindset and motivation, using your memory and imagination, it will help you take an inventory of your current learning habits and give you space to write down where you think you can make progress. Most importantly it wil give you many new ideas for note-taking so that the way you take your notes will enhance your ability to recall/remember. The second half of the book is the journal space for you to start using as a go-to notebook for your new vocabulary etc. I sincerely believe this will be a breakthrough moment in your English as My English Journal will help supercharge your learning! Here’s a sneak preview of the cover. There will be a new website soon to promote the book and where you will be able to buy a physical copy. We are hoping to go to print in January, I will keep you posted.

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Christmas is Coming! 

Again!, Already! Can you believe it? Life still seems to be speeding up for me. I’m wondering at what age (if any) it will slow down again and maybe even return to those long drawn-out days of my childhood (come on man, you’re only 40something!) No, I haven’t done any shopping yet. Have you? Yes, I am enjoying this cold snowy weather (from the window) and I am starting to think about putting up some lights. We’ve already watched, Home Alone and The Grinch so I am pushing myself towards that Christmas feeling. What about you, how are you preparing? If you haven’t read it before you can read here about how I used to spend a traditional English Christmas. So, ta ta for now, and see you in the new year, if not before.
Richard.

What’s New for 2022 ?

So, we are well into the new year, February already! Bring on the spring when hopefully we will be over the worst of the pandemic and enjoying lots of opportunities to meet with friends and entertain ourselves as we like to. So, what does 2022 hold for you and your English learning? Do let me know 🙂  If you are someone who likes to attend in-person courses then I have some exciting news for you 🙂

First of all though… BIG News Rebrand – Over the last two years my wife Radka has been ever more supportive and has also increased her previously only part-time English teaching to full-time status. To reflect this, we have decided to make a slight change to the business, rebranding as Hill English and incorporating all of Radka’s talents into the website. Should you be seeking any translation work from English to Czech or Czech to English, we can now provide that for you. Radka is also currently working with a number of television companies creating Czech subtitles for English and American shows, which is very exciting! More on Radka here.

Summer Intensives for Teenagers
This summer we will be hosting a number of intensive courses and camps for young people and adults. I will be leading a special English for Start -Ups business intensive course for aspiring young people to get to grips with the skills they need in English to become self-employed and set up a small business. Book your place now.

Spring Evening Workshops
This spring will see the return of our evening English workshops on pronunciation, phrasal verbs, idioms and if I can find the right American to work with, a very special Britain vs America workshop 🙂

School Šablona Workshops
Schools can also request one of these workshops either in school or arranged a minimum of 10km away using your šablona grants  Contact me to arrange.

My English Journal
Also, look out for a chance to be one of the first to pre-order your new ‘My English Journal’. This diary type book will be available if enough people pre-order it. It is written, designed and ready to go to press. More on this as soon as I have put a new page on my website.

More Video on the Way
Finally, new video courses on Pronunciation, phrasal verbs and idioms are all in the pipeline.

So, keep your eyes peeled, open your emails and get involved as much as you can.

Bye for now,
Richard & Radka.

Introducing Radka Hill

Radka is amazing! Ok, I’m biased, I’m her husband 🙂 She has been giving private English lessons for a number of years now and for the last two years has also worked for several prestigious language agencies in Prague including Caledonian and James Cook. Specialising in groups, her clients include ČLUZ and Trelleborg but Radka is just as happy working one to one. English sessions with Radka are available both in-person and online.

Translation is another ‘string in her bow’ and as a proven native speaker you can trust her work to be of the highest quality.

Recently Radka has also started providing British and American TV programmes with Czech subtitles.

Personally, I am ‘over the moon’ to be working even more closely with her, and I know that together we can provide you with more and more excellent opportunities to help you improve your English.

If you would be interested in any of her services whether one to one private lessons, group sessions, subtitling or translation, get in touch radka@hillenglish.co.uk

Rich English Podcast – Season 1 Episode 5

Full show transcription here.

How to Create Good English Habits

Today’s podcast is about creating good English learning habits. It’s another solo show today and I bring you a few tips and the science behind changing some of your bad habits in terms of language.  A few things I mention are Charles Duhigg’s Cue Routine Reward, how to prepare for a practice conversation, how to recognise which mistakes you’re making and what you can do to correct them. Free download from www.richardhill.cz Welcome back to Rich English episode 5.

Next week: I will be back with another show to help you create good English and business habits. OK, take care for now, bye-bye.

Richard.

Link to full transcription

Rich English – Opening the door to a whole world of English content

Certainly Rich English won’t be for everyone, but if you’re interested in hearing real conversations with people who are entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed or career-minded then it might be for you. My hope is that by interviewing (mainly but not exclusively) non-native English speakers about how they got started in business and their English learning journey, you, the listener will gain insight, knowledge and confidence to carry out your own plans and ideas.  You will also hear me explain some of the industry-specific words and phrases allowing you to better understand the conversation and open the door for you to listen to other similar podcasts and read blogs, websites, books etc. in English.

Rich English Podcast – Season 1 Episode 4

Full show transcription here.

with Jiří Benedikt

Today’s guest is a former employee turned start-up CEO turned freelance innovator whose training workshops are delivered either in Czech or English. You will hear how enthusiastic Jiří is during our conversation, something which he also produces in his training sessions.  Welcome back to Rich English episode 4.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Effective v efficient
  • Being a start-up CEO
  • Presenting and training in English
  • Innovation
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Artificial Intelligence and more…

Next week: I will be back with another solo show to help you create good English and business habits. OK, take care for now, bye-bye.

Richard.

Link to full transcription

Suggested websites/apps/extensions mentioned:

https://www.jiribenedikt.com

https://www.profikem.cz

https://www.skillshare.com/

https://www.vimvic.cz/

Rich English – Opening the door to a whole world of English content

Certainly Rich English won’t be for everyone, but if you’re interested in hearing real conversations with people who are entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed or career-minded then it might be for you. My hope is that by interviewing (mainly but not exclusively) non-native English speakers about how they got started in business and their English learning journey, you, the listener will gain insight, knowledge and confidence to carry out your own plans and ideas.  You will also hear me explain some of the industry-specific words and phrases allowing you to better understand the conversation and open the door for you to listen to other similar podcasts and read blogs, websites, books etc. in English.

Rich English Podcast – Season 1 Episode 3

Rich English, Business English podcast

Full show transcription here.

How to Remember English Vocabulary

Do you struggle to remember new words is it hard for you to recall a new phrase you think you learned just yesterday?  In today’s show I’m going to explain to you how you can drastically improve your recall system and implant new vocabulary in your memory, long term.  Welcome back to Rich English episode 3.

So what do you do when you’re trying to learn new vocabulary? Well, there are many good ways to help you remember your new words and phrases and traditionally people have written them down folded over the paper, written their other language on the other side. If you’re like my dad, you might cut up those pieces of paper and use them like mini flashcards. People these days are practising with an application, something like Duolingo.

In this episode I’ll talk to you about:

  • Hooks
  • Sketchnotes
  • Mind-mapping
  • Visualization
  • Spaced repetition

So, if you want to find out any more information about any of these things you’ll find it on my blog https://www.richardhill.cz/blog

Next week: I will be back with another interview to help you better understand business English terms. OK, take care for now, bye-bye.

Richard.

Link to full transcription

Suggested app/extension mentioned www.duolingo.com

Next week I will be back with another interview. OK,  take care for now, bye-bye.

Richard.

Rich English – Opening the door to a whole world of English content

Certainly Rich English won’t be for everyone, but if you’re interested in hearing real conversations with people who are entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed or career-minded then it might be for you. My hope is that by interviewing (mainly but not exclusively) non-native English speakers about how they got started in business and their English learning journey, you, the listener will gain insight, knowledge and confidence to carry out your own plans and ideas.  You will also hear me explain some of the industry-specific words and phrases allowing you to better understand the conversation and open the door for you to listen to other similar podcasts and read blogs, websites, books etc. in English.

Rich English Podcast – Season 1 Episode 2

with Peter Fodor - App Agent

Full show transcription here.

When I first moved to the Czech Republic, I had decided to reduce my reliance on technology, especially where phones were concerned. Needing a new phone I opted for the most basic Nokia without even a camera let alone anything as smart as a touch screen. I wanted to be able to call and text, only! Then I met Peter and his team…

On my first visit to Flow Studio, Peter’s original mobile game company, we discovered a shared interest in orienteering. But we’re not here today to talk about running around a forest in all weathers with a map and compass. No, it was Peter and his team’s enthusiasm for tech that reinvigorated me and put me back in touch with my younger self. That sounds awfully serious but really, at the time I met them I had a strong suspicion of all things tech and marketing. Through helping his team with English by researching useful articles on tech industry websites, I remembered that not so long ago I had had more than a passing interest in computer technology, marketing and business entrepreneurship.  I can’t state this boldly enough but without my meeting Peter and his colleague Richard, I probably wouldn’t have built my own website, which led to blogging, video courses and now this podcast. Thank you guys.

A Podcast for entrepreneurs, wantrepreneurs, solopreneurs and all those other …preneurs whose native language is NOT English

Peter Fodor is the Founder and CEO of a company called App Agent who help companies producing mobile applications and games to grow their user base and revenues.

In this show we discuss how Peter began learning English and how he continues to improve as well as talk about his business life, starting out with Flow Studio, producing their own mobile games to making the transition into a mobile marketing agency.

Please Donate to Help make Rich English sustainable

You can help to make Rich English even better by making a small monthly donation of  99kč to cover production costs.


Season 1, Episode 2 with Peter Fodor

In the course of the conversation, you’ll hear a few phrases and words I thought you may need explaining. Here they are:

User acquisition and acquiring clients – these are from the verb to acquire meaning – to get. Basically, user acquisition is how you go about finding new users for your application.

Getting into the flow is about becoming used to a particular situation and maybe getting your head in a particular space where you’re feeling comfortable and concentrating.

Workflow is the sequence of events or stages that a project might pass through to go from its initial start to completion.

To have many hats really means that you have different roles you might have a role as the owner of a business but at the same time you also might take on a more menial task such as sending out invoices for example. So you could say I have an administrative role or an administrative hat as well as my owner hat.

A worker bee is a person who is doing the detailed work, so it might be somebody in administration or might be somebody in design but worker bees are the people who are carrying out the larger ideas conceived by the boss.

A pool of talent is the number of people who are available in any given sector of business who might be your target to take on as an employee.

Collaborative tools are platforms such as Slack, Trello, Asana or even your Google calendar which is open to other people to view. Basically, any kind of platform where you can work closely with other people in order to further your project.

CV curriculum vitae is a document outlining your education and work/training history and personal interests.

A red flag is a warning.

Check out Peter’s company App Agent – www.appagent.com

Link to full transcription

www.richardhill.cz

Suggested app/extension mentioned by Peter – www.grammarly.com

 

Next week I will be back with a solo show to help you with remembering your new vocabulary. OK,  take care for now, bye-bye.

Richard.

Opening the door to a whole world of English content

Certainly Rich English won’t be for everyone, but if you’re interested in hearing real conversations with people who are entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed or career-minded then it might be for you. My hope is that by interviewing (mainly but not exclusively) non-native English speakers about how they got started in business and their English learning journey, you, the listener will gain insight, knowledge and confidence to carry out your own plans and ideas.  You will also hear me explain some of the industry-specific words and phrases allowing you to better understand the conversation and open the door for you to listen to other similar podcasts and read blogs, websites, books etc. in English.

Rich English Podcast Episode 1

Rich English Podcast with Marketa Horakova

Full show transcription here.

You know as a child the first job I can remember wanting to do (after footballer and rock star) was to be a DJ (disc jockey). I mean the radio presenter type rather than the club version…

My father had a small portable cassette player/recorder which I used to borrow (he owned it and lent it to me) and I would record little radio shows where I played a record then back announced the song in my best radio DJ voice. When I was a little older, around 13, I would take a posh Walkman (personal stereo, remember them?) that had a record mode to football matches with my cousin. During the game, we commentated on the match and recorded it.

So jumping forward about 20 years I can remember the first time I heard the word ‘podcast’. It was in 2003 and a friend of mine had just bought a first generation iPod. He told me he was listening to podcasts on it and I had to ask what they were. “They’re basically radio shows but you can download them to your iPod and listen to them whenever you want”, said he. I thought that sounded like a brilliant idea but then forgot about them for about 10 years or more. Podcasts didn’t really come into my life until around 2015 when I started to listen to a couple of them to learn more about online business (thank you to the Fizzle Show in particular).

A year or two ago I was asked (by next week’s guest Peter Fodor from App Agent) if  I could with producing a podcast. I duly obliged (I said yes) and they were more than happy with the results. They praised my work and suggested that I find other companies for whom I could also produce a podcast. I did nothing…

A Podcast for entrepreneurs, wantrepreneurs, solopreneurs and all those other …preneurs whose native language is NOT English

Now here we are in 2021, I’m 45 years old and only now am I starting my own podcast. Why did it take me so long? I don’t know but it certainly feels like I’ve come full circle and so far, so good. I have found the experience a great one as I enjoy every aspect of the process from idea, recording, interviewing, editing and promoting. (You can help me with that last bit, the promotion, by sharing a link to my podcast and recommending it on your Linked in and Facebook feeds etc.)

Opening the door to a whole world of English content

Certainly Rich English won’t be for everyone, but if you’re interested in hearing real conversations with people who are entrepreneurs, business owners, self-employed or career-minded then it might be for you. My hope is that by interviewing (mainly but not exclusively) non-native English speakers about how they got started in business and their English learning journey, you, the listener will gain insight, knowledge and confidence to carry out your own plans and ideas.  You will also hear me explain some of the industry-specific words and phrases allowing you to better understand the conversation and open the door for you to listen to other similar podcasts and read blogs, websites, books etc. in English.

Please Donate to Help make Rich English sustainable

You can help to make Rich English even better by making a small monthly donation of  99kč to cover production costs.


Season 1, Episode 1 with Markéta Horáková

Markéta is from Terapie v Lese (Therepy in the Forest) who provide therapeutic journeys in the countryside, forests and Prague’s parks. Welcome to the first episode of Rich English and a chat with Marketa about her business experience and English learning journey.  Before you get into the interview with Marketa I thought I should explain one or two phrases that myself or Marketa to use in the interview just help you better understand

Further afield means places away from the specific location you’re in.

Donkey work and heavy lifting meaning the nuts and bolts (there’s another phrase for you –  it’s the details) – carrying out the actual work. You might have a great idea but then who’s going to do it, who’s going to do the data input, who’s going to build physically the website, who’s going to put their fingers to the keyboard and do the actual work? That’s the donkey work or the heavy lifting.

Down the road – in the future, at a more advanced stage than now.

To cover plenty of bases which means to involve everyone or everything in a situation.

My conversation with Marketa is an interesting one and I’m sure there’s a lot to learn so without further ado press play and get on with the show. I hope you enjoy it, I’d love you to leave me a little review and leave me any comments. Of course, you can get in touch with me here on the website and I’m on Facebook, LinkedIn the usual places.

Next week I will be back with an interview with a really interesting guy Peter Fodor who is from a company called App Agent and they help companies who are developing applications for mobile phones. His company helps them to market those applications. That’s a really interesting chat and I hope you can join me. OK,  take care for now, bye-bye.

Richard.

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