The New General Service List, or NGSL is just 2800 words- but covers 92% of written and spoken English. NGSL vocabulary is also IELTS vocabulary, and TOEFL vocabulary, and vocabulary for doing business and understanding the news. If you want to master English vocabulary, a great first step is to master NGSL vocabulary. Listen to this week's episode to learn 5 words, 15 meanings and 45 examples from the NGSL- words 1876 to 1880. Photo is taken from Wikipedia. It has been cropped to fit a square frame. Link: PIked Tsukahara L9 Reginals - Gymnastics - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics#/media/File:PIked_Tsukahara_L9_Reginals.jpg) License: Deed - Attribution 3.0 Unported - Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Talk with Tim, and meet students from around the world- join the Master English With Tim podcast chat groups: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EUTTJKmHcb7A9frLCRAMSa?mode=hqrc https://t.me/+BBSno0b7GWcxZDFk  -- We all try not to get sick in the winter- and almost all of us get sick anyways! In this episode, learn the most important English vocabulary for talking about common sicknesses like the cold, the flu and COVID. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Sometimes it's the small words that give us problems- words like BE (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-56-just-be/id1734343458?i=1000653795616), AT (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-97-small-words-big-power/id1734343458?i=1000690727912), and GET (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-6-understand-and-use-get/id1734343458?i=1000648020233). In Episode 140, Tim explains 4 small words: THIS, THAT, THESE and THOSE. Listen to Episode 140 now to learn how to pronounce and use these essential English words. - NOTE: Cover image generated using AI. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you want to master English vocabulary, you have to master NGSL vocabulary. The NGSL, or New General Service List, is an list of the 2800 most used words in English. Learn these words in depth and detail to get a higher score on IELTS or TOEFL, and to communicate with more confidence at work. Listen to Episode #139 now to learn 17 meanings of 5 NGSL words. NOTE: Cover image created using AI. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

There's an easier way to master English vocabulary at the advanced level. This easier method starts with seeing the hidden connections between words. Listen to Episode #138 to learn 18 words and word parts that come from a single root and share a similar meaning. These words will help you on tests like IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, GRE and GMAT. Note: Cover image created by AI. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

CAN and CAN'T often sound a lot alike. This can cause real problems in your life! Listen to Episode 137 to learn four functions of CAN, and how to easily understand if you heard CAN or CAN'T. - If you want to learn more about real world, "chewing gum" English pronunciations used by native speakers, listen to Episode 102: A Fresh Look at Chewing Gum (https://castbox.fm/episode/Episode-102%3A-A-Fresh-Look-at-English-Listening-id6059877-id788523870?country=us). Note: cover image created by AI. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

👆Learn root words to make surprising connections between words and remember advanced vocabulary better! Did you know that English contains traces of a prehistoric language first spoken 6000 years ago? Linguists call this language Indo-European because its daughter languages are spoken in Europe (for example, Spanish, German and Ukrainian) as well as in South Aisa (for instance Hindi and Bengali). Listen to Episode 136 to explore nine words that all share a piece of ancient Indo-European history: the root BL, found in English words like BLOND and ALBINO, and also in foreign words like Spanish "blanco" and German "bleich". NOTE: Cover image created using AI. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

One person's ghost story can seem unreal... But when two people see the same thing, we have little choice but to believe both of them. In this bonus Halloween episode, listen to a true story about two friends and a ghostly white dog from another world. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This week is a special and scary week- it's Halloween! Tim loves Halloween, so this week he brings you a real-life ghost story told by a close friend. This episode has a lot of advanced vocabulary, much of it connected with ghosts. To get the maximum effect from this episode, learn the advanced vocabulary from the list below- and then listen with the lights turned off! 1 recollect = remember 2 spooky = scary (usually because of ghosts) 3, 4 tumultuous, fraught (/frawt/) = chaotic, complicated (relationships) 5 peninsula = piece of land with water on three sides (e.g., Florida or Korea) 6 desolate = empty and depressing (land, places) 7, 8 marsh, swamp = land with lots of water on it 9 windswept = affected by heavy wind (land, territory- a windswept beach) 10 flanked by = if a road is flanked by trees, there are trees on both sides of the road 11 performer = actor or singer 12 creep someone out = to make someone afraid 13 orchard = land where fruit trees grow, e.g. apple orchard, cherry orchard 14 burial grounds = cemetery, graveyard (for Native Americans) 15 suffice it to say = it's enough to say 16 fraught = complicated, difficult (relationships) 17 tangle = chaotic mix of different objects 18 garb = clothing 19 eyepatch = piece of cloth worn to protect an eye- pirates wear eye patches 20 dilapidated = in bad condition, not taken care of (buildings) 21 hazy = difficult to see through (for example, some beers are hazy) 22 cobwebs = spiderwebs 23 barn = building on a farm where animals live or food is kept 24 bee = a black and yellow flying insect 25 hive of bees = structure built by bees that they live in; hives contain honey 26 general store = old-fashioned store that sells food, tools and clothing- common in the US until the 1950s- General store - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_store) 27 skittering = moving quickly and noisily across a hard surface 28 crescendo = climax, most dramatic moment 29 vaporize = to disappear 30 apparition = a ghost 31 taxing = requiring a large effort Note: Episode cover created by AI. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

What if you could speak with greater sophistication and detail WITHOUT learning new words? Well, that really is possible! How? You just need to learn more meanings of words you already know. This technique is even more impactful when you choose words from the NGSL, a list of the 2809 most used words of English. Knowing NGSL vocabulary well can also help you score higher on IELTS and TOEFL. Listen to Episode 134 today to learn 5 NGSL words and 9 meanings. Note: cover image created using AI. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.