Nomad English Teacher Podcast Matt Sturgess

It's time to take a look back at 2023! What a great year!

In this episode I choose my favourite destinations that I travelled to in 2023 in the following categories:

1. Best nature

2. Best cities

3. Best food

4. Best holiday destination

5. Most liveable

We learn lots of nice English phrases along the way, including some new year-related stuff.

Enjoy, and happy new year!

It's Christmas time, so I'm heading home to the UK to spend it with my family and friends.

In today's episode I talk about how British people spend Christmas these days. We learn lots of Christmas-related English vocabulary and phrases, and also get a nice insight into one of the UK's most important cultural events.

Enjoy, and merry Christmas!

Learn how to describe food in real-life, modern English as I talk you through the best food I ate while 'digital nomadding' as an online English teacher in Florence, Italy.

So after 2 weeks travelling the tropical paradise of Sri Lanka, it was back to Europe, and the next destination was Florence, Italy. Let's just say that if Sri Lanka was the high point of my year, Florence was the low point! I spent two months in this city, and for much of it I was 'down in the dumps'.

In this episode, I teach you the meaning of this phrase and loads more English slang, phrases, and idioms that we can use to describe NEGATIVE things, particularly negative thoughts and emotions.

In today's episode we welcome Solomon, my former student and high-level English speaker, as a guest! I tell Solomon about my time in Florence and test him on the new vocabulary and phrases I use. I think it's a great way to learn and I hope it makes the podcast more fun, and the new target language even clearer. Let me know what you think!

Enjoy!

Our final episode on Sri Lanka, and to be honest, I didn't have much of a plan for this episode!

The result was that I spoke at my natural speed, using ADVANCED LEVEL English vocabulary and phrases.

This episode is a real test of your English listening skills. If you can listen all the way to the end and understand most of it, well done, you can be sure that you're AT LEAST at the upper-intermediate level!

There's loads of nice new vocabulary to learn too, give it a try, and enjoy it!

Earlier this year I went on safari in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park. Today I'm telling you the story, and for each animal I saw, I'm going to teach you an ENGLISH IDIOM, PHRASE or PIECE OF SLANG related to that animal.

Also, shout out to Ariya Tissa Guesthouse in Tissamaharama where we had one of the nicest stays of our trip. I highly recommend staying there if you're heading to Yala.

Here's our word list:


cheeky monkey
brass monkeys
mongoose
a snake
deer in the headlights
the elephant in the room
take the bull by the horns
a bull in a china shop
crocodile tears
a leopard never changes its spots
to make a beeline



Enjoy!