LEP Episode 429 "RAMBLENEWS" - Luke's English Podcast - Learn English with Luke Thompson

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An episode with some rambling about recent news, LEPster meetups, transcript project, listener comments & questions, phrasal verbs with 'in on' and some music.
Listen to Luke's English Podcast - www.teacherluke.co.uk

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Update: Subtitles are now available 📖🎧 Thanks for the comments everyone. I'll be doing more videos like this in the future!

[@lucygarzon2854]

Thanks you so much! I really appreciated your efford doing videos.

[@mesharialhindal4533]

Vidoe very important to keep attention

[@Liudmyla_Zubyk]

Your channel was the best discovery so far in 2024!

[@cassiaaguiarsales7854]

Your channel was a best discovery so far in 2021! Well done. Really enjoyed it.

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[@zohurulislam1974]

It's great to see Luke and hear him at the same time. Facial expression is something we should see since it's part of communication. Please produce more podcasts of this kind and let's be more indebted to you. Thanks Luke. We'll remember you forever!

[@clownboxworldtravel7775]

Thank you, Luke! I like so much looking and listening your videos! Love very much your facial expressions, body language, sense of humor)))) you are the one whom I can see all ways and learning English with your videos, thank you again and again lot ❤

[@jojobenyamin2443]

I listened to this episode twice the first time just the audio and the second time is on here. I really enjoyed them both thanks for uploading this video. Looking forward to watching more brilliant and funny videos like this one my notifications is on. ❤️❤️

[@andreaalves6797]

In my opinion, you are the best teacher on the Internet. Thanks.

[@user-df2tr4fy3x]

Luke, you have great sense of humour. I enjoy your videos a lot 😊. Thank you very much

[@avbelay]

It's absolutely amazing! Congrats Luke!

[@panjijayasutra1573]

Your voices so entertaining. I am enjoying your podcast Luke.

[@MiguelGarcia-ur5en]

Great job Luke!!! As usual, you're doing really well. Although I've been enjoying your podcast for several years so far. From now on I'll try to enjoy your stuff trought this sort of media. Thanks a lot for your absolutely awesome job!!!

[@alejandrom404]

I really appreciate what you do,improve,motivate,people to learn this so such an amazing language that we call "ENGLISH".

[@user-qs7sq3hw5g]

Hi, Luke! thank you for your amazing podcasts)) it's a pleasure to listen to you, and to watch you as well, keep going.

[@MarcosGalassoMD]

Amazing idea Luke! I've been living in Canada for one and a half year now and I can't forget the early days hear improving my English skills with u! You actually helped me a lot! Thanks! #4everLEPster

[@zohurulislam1974]

Luke's English podcast is full of humour, jokes, irony. There's everything one can look for in his podcast. It's great!

[@eliottmurillo8290]

I found out this podcast, I really I've improved my listening & talk in English...amazing man

[@mollietai8946]

The art of LEP is the art of hearing as well as seeing . Gearing up for March !

[@tomtom092]

Well I don't actually watch the videos, I basically just play them and do something else while listening to them, I know that's probably the purpose of the podcast but I think youtube is a bit more accessible. I used to listen to the podcast a few years ago and for some reason I just stopped listening to it but as I still follow the channel on youtube I've been listening to the videos sometimes while working. They're really good, it helps to encrease the vocabulary and keep english fresh since I don't have the opportunity to use it very often so thank you.

[@user-fx6lq4gt3d]

Luuuke! It's big pleasure to watch you :) It's more interesting and fun than just listen. Please, keep going! PS: the Russian guy was right - you are extremely photogenic! :)

[@nexusmediaworld]

Zhenya Kipina hi

[@jaroslavaslavnaja]

Thank you! Beautiful music and song 👏💐

[@0802ida]

Thanks Luke !!! I love ❤️ your podcasts.. keep your good job 👏

[@pedrojleitao]

My favorite podcast. Keep going. Cheers from Rio, Brazil.

[@AnaLopez-lw4bp]

Great to see you! after years of just hearing your podcasts. I'm one of the ninjas in the shadow, and it's first time I write something or make a coment. Your poscasts are great and I've improved my English listening thanks to you. Thank you so much!!!

[@ilkingoyushov1032]

It's great to watch you while listening to the podcast Luke :)

[@beyimkhanimhuseynova6938]

Ilkin Goyushov great greetings from Azerbaijan

[@pugpug11b]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I did clapped my hands. Thank you for the song before I go to bed.

[@voleti19]

I enjoyed listening to your podcast. Rambling and mumbling two good words!!

[@nostalgiaburma2023]

i'm a new audience of listening to your podcast .it's so clear and quiet easy to understand . i'm from Burma and i 'm the beginner of learning english..i 'm really really love and enjoy your every single episodes. Thanks sir..

[@myrachidlamrani956]

Awesome Luke .I really like your poscasts.They are amazing .I am teacher of English here in Morocco.I am looking forward to meeting you one day and welcoming you here in my country.Keep making more podcasts .learners here like them very much .You are really genuis.

[@elfaed11]

hi Luke, I love your podcasts and always listen to them while walking or doing work at home. very entertaining and educating as well. it is one of the best English podcasts ever. the video version/you-tube channel is great as well but cannot be watched wile commuting, jogging or doing home stuff, however i still follow and watch them when i have time.

[@glebmarchenko5233]

Luke!☺ Thanks for your awesome podcast!!! Your rambling perfectly fine for listening in a "dead" time🚊🚘🚄🚌🚎!

[@riyazqureshi7656]

Amazing podcast, amazing skills, amazing human being

[@diegocanuto2292]

Thank u very much Luke,all my students love your podcast!Now cleaning n cooking is fun!!!!Thanks a lot!

[@TheGuilhermeMenezes]

I think it's great to see you on KZbin :)

[@neworder9009]

Your episode still good to be heard after 4 years.

[@aldona8092]

Great podcast ever! I like the timbre of your voice. Nice to listen to.

[@rune13slayer]

I just saw/listened to this episode and it's very heartwarming to hear people grateful for your work! I feel the same way! PS. The impromptu stuff you did (while playing the recording) were funny lol

[@kennethlademora1414]

Hi Luke your videos help me a lot in improving my Listening skills for my IELTS exam

[@houssinnores1998]

watching you speaking is more beneficial than just listening .😄

[@sashasagan2510]

The Song is Awesome!

[@TheDani8989]

Hi all, I watched part of the episode. I like this approach too. I would love that someday you give us the opportunity to ask you some questions live.

[@phakrapeehparkin4853]

Hi luke I’m great to see your video on KZbin channel. I’m follow you from your Podcast ! Just want to say your Podcast is good for practice my English Cheers!! Phakrapee / Thailand 🇹🇭

[@TheFeeeeling]

I love your videos and podcasts. You are very creative and your voice is amazing ❤🎉

[@emanabdullah3770]

finally i see ur face. I am always listening to ur podcasts. They improve my language in listening skill. keep it up

[@urmidharachatterjee5307]

You are the best english teacher.

[@pilarcabezaperez]

This is the first time I hear you singing and playing the guitar, I also love singing, although we are no the best musicians we do our best and we express ouselfs through the music, don't stop please. I love your podcasts, they are helping me to improve my English and at the same time I'm having a funny and useful time listening to you. I love your style. From Barcelona, have a great time.

[@spatz3081]

Thank you for this video!

[@iskandervr1902]

Your podcast is fookin awesome!!

[@raguluss]

You're my role model luke ! Keep going don't stop ...

[@amaniii261]

Omg😱😱😱.... I love this voice, moreover this video,, 😍😍😍😍 I can learn about English. Thanks Luke

[@mauricio0341able]

hi luke, I wonder if you have wrote a book yet, sorry for my poor english but I'm just a learner from Bogota and you are being my favorite learning english source. thanks and keep it up

[@mariayan2698]

It’s a very nice song! Good work 👍

[@rushikesh3974]

Thank you so much!

[@r.dimeco3068]

Thanks a lot Luke!

[@Raviverma-eu5up]

although i am new to you, you've done a great job with this podcast. you earn one more subscription just now. love you buddy

[@aysenhalakoo7665]

i improve my listening by listening to this padcast fantastic

[@ridwanfarah3262]

I like your voice when you are singing. 👏👏👏 Your teavhing is absolutely fab.

[@AlexanderDenisevich]

You have a great voice! Don't stop to singing

[@AlineWelch]

"Let's just call them bastards" =) I love that, Luke! And I really like your videos! I think they are a very nice "seasoning" (if I'm right saying it like this) to you wonderful podcast that I love so much! Thanks, Luke! You rock =)

[@Ricardo.3]

Wooow A nice teacher and singer as well, congrats 👏👏👏😉

[@Staruha91]

Luke, just see a proportion of likes and dislikes, people absolutely love this. In terms of numbers it's a matter of time, publicity and perseverance, I guess. Oh, and probably you can persuade Paul's producers to include an ad of your podcasts and KZbin channel into his show for free. It makes a perfect sense to me. Something like a 5 seconds chunk saying "Struggle with English? Check out Luke's English Podcast and KZbin Channel." About what you've said on sound+video, try to be as logical as you always are here - what you are trying to do is imitate a real English conversation, a natural speech as it is happening in real life. Video adds value to that goal, because it is more realistic, it really is, with all your lively facial expressions, humorous looks, and all of that stuff. It's a more interactive, intimate and realistic experience. That's why I'm afraid can't agree that audio only is better in terms of English acquisition. With all the respect to blind people, you're not making this only for them, right. And you don't want people to close their eyes as soon as they are involved in an English conversation, do you? That bit about "distraction" from the audio content is arguable, I think it fulfills the experience, not ruins it. And now on my personal emotions, if anyone is interested. Thanks to the video, this episode was the first one ever, where I actually kept smiling and laughing, I mean, literally. Because when humor is delivered with a video, it's a more soul-to-soul kind of stuff if you will. Apologies for such a long comment. I just fell like I owe you an explanation of the whole "videos" idea. And of course, one more time, thank you for doing all of this, m8, it really is a significant part of my life and other people's too.

[@vasiliusik750]

That's right! )) Brilliant!

[@juliofrez4121]

Thanks a lot¡ great job. every day better

[@andreaantonelli1904]

hello Luke... First time watching you....great..I love your British accent

[@catherinebear4932]

Loved it!!! :)

[@iNodi-.]

i swear to god i just smiled while you taking the pic I really get into it :p.. thank you luke 3> amazing ep .

[@revathivinay4603]

Wow ❤️ I love listening to you... useful and informative 👏 from India.

[@herbolarilamenta]

I normally listen to your podcast at 1,5 speed, since you speak very clearly I can follow it easily. Regarding making videos o not, I like listen to the podcast more than watching videos because I can do other things meanwhile I listen to it. Since I'm a fan of 70-80's English humour, I would like to propose one subject for one of your future podcast: "70-80's english humour shows", such as: ¨Only fool and horses¨, ¨Rising dump¨, ¨Man about the house¨,...etc. Thank you very much for your time. ;-))

[@Raimkhodzhanov]

Luke, You're the best!

[@cantonamonhomme9971]

OMG, this is the first time I watch you on Utube instead of listening to Podcast. lol you are so different from what I pictured.

[@someone-tm5gv]

I love your facial expressions when you explain or imitate became an obsession

[@mjmpkung9333]

Your voice is handsome. Amber's voice is beautiful. You guys are truly gifted!!

[@rtrm77]

The experience has been very helpful, Luke. Watching you speak makes it feel more like a chatting situation. Sometimes I do not understand what you say at first, but then I see you speaking and it gives me some more information about the word / bit of vocabulary. The fact that the videos are quite too long does not mean they cannot be seen completely. The listeners / viewers can stop the video when they cannot watch it anymore for whatever reason it may be and resume it whenever it's appropriate again. KZbin has now this feature that shows a red bar on the bottom of the miniature of the video for the "viewing progress" (?) of each viewer and stops and summarizes the videos from the last part each one has watched. So, it's no problem at all. Thanks, and keep on broadcasting. By the way, you look good with the beard, or not shaving as you said.

[@rtrm77]

Oh, and by the way again, I believe that if you decide to separate things and produce different contents for youtube and the podcast, you are never ever going to post new videos. Because we all know you don't feel so familiar with the camera yet. But believe yourself! You can do it! We are all rooting for you and this magical gadget of the modernity.

[@takenote8268]

Great job, Luke. This new format will find much more users. KZbin is a right place! Your computer can be slow at video rendering, since it's probably doesn't fit rendering software requirements (video rendering require a strong PC). Please continue creating KZbin episodes - may this motivate you - good KZbinrs don't need to have a job :)

[@ngmyahia1853]

amazing talk..🙌

[@marianoscotti8899]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😍A goooorgeous singer and guitar player, too ! Felicitaciones, Luke !👏👏👏👏🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧

[@_Iokanaan_Marusidze_]

Thanks a lot !

[@user-ro5cn8ih5o]

Fianlly i saw my teacher haha .. Thanks for your podcasts in Tunein Radio app.

[@amanigentil1863]

we are happy for your support to learn English

[@LoganWei-xs1xg]

nice 2 see u on KZbin again

[@lucygarzon2854]

Great to see you again by KZbin, Is it possible by live stream?

[@ajausayas]

Oh, I see now you are pretty active on youtube too! I missed all of this!

[@KimCuongTran3011]

thank you, long time no listen your poscad :)

[@pink_snowman]

Luck, happy to see you! I thought you are older, more older then you are) Your voice is so... adult. You have a big number of listeners in Russia. I think so) Nice beard!)

[@yakinbozek]

Hi Luke! Regarding your doubt between audio (podcasts) versus video (youtube). In my opinion, your form of content as it is right now is perfect for a podcast. I mean, you already mastered and know perfectly well how to take advantage of all the radio-like possibilities and you are very creative with the use of voice and audio resources. In conclusion, is a great podcast! On the other hand, to be videos, I think you are not taking advantage of any of the visual possibilities that images have. So I agree that maybe it is not worth making a video if you are not using the visual advantages it would make a great video. I mean, it's wonderful to see the real thing of you talking but that magic it's revealed in just one time of watching you, you don't need to do every episode a video. What I would suggest is that you keep with the podcast as it is, which is an already known success. And would use video to make shorter clips and experiment with the possibilities that that platform offer to better teach English (as being able to write the words on the screen, have a blackboard to explain with mindmaps and graphics, show example images, etc). Also, I would make videos much shorter as they require full attention from your audience, whilst the podcasts it's ok to belong as they run on the background while doing other activities. Having said all that, then you have the Joe Rogan Experience which is a success even though is nothing more than a few cameras recording the visual element of what could be just the perfect podcast format! So, in conclusion, these days you never know what is the best thing to do unless you try it. Also, regarding the number of views and monetization opportunities with KZbin, it's a whole other world that only you know it it's worth the investment of your time due to the extra gains you will have. Anyway, sorry for the "rambling thinking out loud way of answering", just trying to collaborate with you in making up your mind regarding if video format might be worth it and how that would be beneficial. Cheers, and thanks for the English teachings lessons!

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment Max. These are basically the conclusions I've come to as well. At the moment I'm focusing mostly on making audio episodes, which I can do quite quickly and efficiently now. And I make shorter videos for my premium subscribers that focus on pronunciation. I can add text to the screen, show features of speech and so on. The shorter videos are easier to manage. Sometimes I might video myself recording a podcast episode and publish it on KZbin if I have the right location for it. Also, I have been slowly collecting audio clips from my archive and I would like to make them into KZbin videos if possible, maybe with transcripts on the screen or even some animation or something. But that would take a ton of work and I'm not sure it's worth it! Another downside to making videos (in my experience) is that they take absolutely ages to edit, process, upload and that kind of thing. The file sizes are often so large (even with relatively short videos) and require so much of my computer's RAM that it becomes very time consuming and difficult. Also, I find it frustrating to deal with things like lighting, making the background look presentable, making sure I look (reasonably) presentable, etc. I'd love to be able to do what Joe Rogan does (or Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo's Film Reviews), but I don't have the resources unfortunately. Anyway, I love making audio episodes and I think it'll the thing I continue to do most. Thanks again for the comment. It helped me to clarify things. 👍

[@yakinbozek]

​@@LukesEnglishPodcast Happy to help you and contribute in whatever I can :) If you decide not to shot all of your episodes in video (for all the reasons you mentioned), uploading the podcast to KZbin with just an image will still be worthy, as many people use KZbin as a music player. Sometimes when working on the computer I have an open tab with KZbin running just like the radio. So of course, not making videos doesn’t mean not uploading the audio to KZbin, as that would restrict your reproductions (I know you surely know this but just to left it clear!). Regarding the cost of videoing, I recently heard Naval Ravikant giving similar reasons when asked why his KZbin uploads were just his voice talking (only the podcast audio!) with a static picture instead of video. He said something like the required effort to make a good quality video, in his personal situation was not worth the return of investment. So it might all depend on that. Popular KZbinrs that earn lots of money in the platform would argue you that making a proper video and taking advantage of the visual and editing possibilities it's absolutely worth the effort ;) Thanks for answering and considering your audience's opinion :) Cheers

[@cutieeeeeeeeeee1111]

Your singing is perfect

[@harooniqbal194]

Very nice Luke.

[@valtercorte7060]

The beard looks fantastic on Luke

[@marwanabil4564]

شكرا جزيﻻ فعﻻ استفدت استمر انت رائع thank you so much . You are great

[@ErenKarakoca]

I am new to your channel. You are really doing well

[@romankulagin6247]

Alright Mate. Keep going in video mode. That's good.

[@soniccz1]

wow zero dislikes!! Congrats, Luke, that´s great in this online world I guess!! :)

[@666nadia1995n]

It's so strange to see you in flash for the first time. The feeling resamles when you read the book before you whatch the film...

[@imrantaj2045]

Like you can talk something about adventure ,picnic spots ,sports ,other things so that we can listen variety of english

[@kamilrodak7824]

It's very good to actually see you on the screen :D but the audio quality is much worse here unfortunately :( But I coped with this - I muted audio on youtube and turned on the "normal" audio version :)

[@ruslanmusifullin8436]

Great! Fun song about robots) Why don't you use guitar mediator?

[@ra9ftm]

I didn't got the word at 12.16. It sounds like The Moscow "lepstars" or something. Can anyone tell me what is that word. Thanks.

[@roberta238]

thank you so much Luke for your videos! I'd like to know if the download audio is free. Can anyone tell me? Thanks

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Yes, it's free wp.me/p4IuUx-7yk

[@roberta238]

wow, thank you for your rapid answer! My mobile phone also thank you, it'll very loaded soon 😉

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

You should get the Luke's English Podcast App for listening to episodes. Search for it in the App store.

[@laramark9415]

Very nice I'm a new visitor and subscriber to your Channel 😍

[@charlestonmiszczak]

The best!!

[@alyonam8159]

Hi, Luke! I quite like this format and find it enjoyable. However, this would be more interesting if you looked in the camera more. I found the bit when you was fooling around during the Skype conversation pretty funny :) and I think doing shorter videos for YT is a brilliant idea, you will attract more people then! By the way, the song is so cool and your guitar skills are better than you said they were. Certainly better than mine lol