TEN TOP TIPS for Learning English (Ending)
(Music is playing on the background)
What do you think of my music? You might hate it. You might be thinking: ‘Oh, God, I hate this electronic stuff!' But maybe there are some of you out there who are thinking: ‘Yeah! Actually, wow, you made that, Luke? That's pretty good.' I don't know. It's pretty simple. It's pretty basic stuff. I've got this thing called the Korg Kaossilator 2. Which basically has about a 150 different sounds in it. It's got like drum sounds, bass sounds, little blippy noises. And it lets you create loops. So, it's not a keyboard. It's just a little pad. It's about the size of an iPhone. And it's got its pad, and you can select different sounds. And then you play the sounds on it with your finger. And it loops them. You've got an 8-bar-loop to play with. So, you create all these loops and you lay in them all on top of each other. And you then export the whole project into software on your computer. And that allows you to separate all of the tracks that you've created. And then you can do a live sequencing of the track. So, I actually do a live mix, where I'm bringing the tracks in and out, and sort of deciding what's going to come in where. For example, just there I took, took out everything except the bass and the drums. And then you're going to hear some little noises that I'm adding in. So. It's actually a very limited, very basic little system. Which is why that music you can hear is quite sort of minimal. But it's got some really nice funky, chunky, fat noises. And it's quite nice backing music for the podcast. And since I'm the one who created it, I have complete copyright over the stuff. So, I can put it on the podcast without any fear of infringing anyone else's copyright. It's great. And because the thing is so small, you can hold it in your hand. And it's powered by two double A batteries.
So, you can just make music on the train. You can just go out into the park and sit on a bench and make some music. Each track probably takes about 30 minutes to produce. And then you mix it later on at home on a computer and then you make a master version. And then Bob's your uncle. You've got a groovy little bit of music. So, I will probably play a little bits of music like this in, some points, in episode. It's not too much. But little bit of music in the beginning and the end maybe, just to take the edge off.
Also I've got a new jingle. Another new jingle for the podcast which I'm going to introduce in my episodes very soon. A friend of mine, who is a producer, was kind enough to make a load of jingles for me. And they're really great. So I'll be releasing those jingles on the podcast soon. Now I've got too many jingles, in fact. So, I've got those ones I made recently with little voice samples. You know that ones that go: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a journey into the English language, a journey into the DNA of the English language. Really? The DNA of the English language. That is quite a strong claim.' You know that, those ones? So, I've got those jingles and then I've got some new jingles. So, it's a jingle's city on the podcast now, alright.
So, thanks again for listening to this episode. This is episode 364. And I hope that you feel motivated about your learning. I should probably mention italki again. Because they are the sponsors for Luke's English Podcast at the moment. And I mean italki are amazing. Because now you can go online and you can have your English lessons from the comfort of your own home. And there's some really great people on italki. I had a look through some of the teachers. The English teachers that I've got there. I just took kind of get to know some of the people who are teaching on italki. And you can see videos of them introducing themselves. And there's a really nice range of people. Some really, really cool funny looking people. Some people who look really experienced, serious for Business English and things like that. And, you know, all sorts of people from different places with different accents in English and things like that. And they all look very friendly and professional.
So, you know, speaking English actually engaging in spoken communication has got to be vital for your English really. If you're serious about pushing your English further, then, you know, you've got to use it, you've got to actually speak and get out of your comfort zone. And italki is the perfect way to do that, because it's really a safe place. It's like a completely safe space where you can practise things that you've picked up on this podcast.
You know, and if you've listened to lots of episodes of this podcast you will have tons of English rattling around inside your brain. It has to come out of your mouth, okay? It has to. And you'll notice than when you get into the rhythm and when you get used to it, when you've warmed up and when you've done lots of speaking, you'll find that actually you're using a lot of English that's gone in, you know? Lot of English you've heard me say to you. A lot of that is going to become an active part of your language when you start speaking regularly. So, yeah! Check out italki. Why not? Teacherluke.co.uk/talk. And that's how you can check it out. And if you buy some lessons, then you'll get an italki voucher. Because you're a listener to this podcast, they'll send you a voucher which you can use as a discount in the future. It's a pretty good offer, I have to say.
Alright then. Thank you so much for listening to my podcast! It's been a pleasure as always. And I look forward to hearing from you in the form of comments and messages and things like that. I have to say I get so many messages and I just want to say ‘Thank you!' to you if you have sent one to me. It's literally every day I get messages from people. And I can't respond to them all. They just aren't enough hours in a day. But I just want to let you to know that I read every message I get, I read. And what happens is: I flag messages I get. I flag them and I say to myself: ‘I'll reply to it later.' And then more messages tumble in into my inbox. And the messages that I've flagged earlier on just get deeper and deeper into the inbox. And eventually, I've just got so many flagged messages that I just can't reply to them all. So, some of you send me specific questions. Some of you send me really sincere messages about how much you enjoy listening to this podcast.
And I just wanted to say that: ‘Thank you!' basically for taking the time to write to me. And sorry that I haven't replied to all of your messages. Some of them I replied to. But some of them I just can't reply to. But I just wanted to say that I'm sorry, if you've written a specific thing to me, and I haven't got back to you about it, you know. But thanks for your messages. Alright, I'm really I'm going to stop now. You've been listening to episode 364 of Luke's English Podcast. But that is it for this one. You'll be hearing another episode pretty soon. And that's a conversation with my dad. And that's just a bit more politics. That will probably be the last bit of politics I do for a little while on the podcast because I think it's time to put that topic to bed for a bit. Alright. I'm now going to just stop recording and I'm going to relax. <brth> take a deep breath and relax. <brth>, it's a good feeling. Okay. Thanks for the listening to the episode. Speak to you again soon. But for now, it's time to say good bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
