Real ESL With Kim Purcell - Our New Video Podcast For ESL Students
Hey everyone,
Sorry it’s been a little slow around here lately, I’ve been working with my wife on something other than our children.
You may or may not know this but I met my wife in Asia in the late 90s, when we were both ESL (English as a Second Language) teachers in Seoul, Korea. My time there helped send my love of Asian culture to another level and ultimately inspired this site.
Long story short, we loved our time in Asia and often found ourselves missing our interactions with our students. While being a TV producer is awfully fun, we thought we’d start a small video series to get back into the teaching habit and to maybe get us back to Asia once in a while.
The site, realesl.com, is in the beginning stages and the videos are rough but we’re getting there. More than anything we want the videos to teach people English the way it’s actually spoken on the streets, swearing and all.
Let us know what you think and visit the website when you can. And leave us some feedback! We’d love to hear from you. Also, if you’re an ESL student or know someone who is be sure to let them know about the series!
Below is an example of one of the videos we’re doing. As I mentioned, it doesn’t pull any punches. If you want to learn how to speak English, you’re going to have to learn that people often swear.
Thanks for taking the time to check it out. Now we return you to your regularly scheduled Japanese TV programming.
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Clarissa March 28th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
(I’ve put the site into StumbleUpon now, too. :))