The InFluency Podcast

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By: Hadar Shemesh

The InFluency podcast is your go-to resource for learning, speaking and teaching English. Hadar Shemesh is a pronunciation expert and fluency coach with thousands of students around the world, though she herself was an intermediate speaker of English once. In this podcast she will share her best strategies for learning English, speaking English with confidence and mastering the American accent. Discover how becoming fluent has everything to do with acquiring the right mindset, setting goals and learning how to overcome challenges. Hadar will also share her teaching philosophy and techniques to support English teachers looking to help their students become...

How to pronounce words like audio, awesome, awful | English Spelling Patterns
#390
Last Tuesday at 3:00 PM

Did you know thereā€™s not actually a U sound in words like audio and author? Itā€™s true! In this episode, Iā€™ll show you how to pronounce words that have an AU and AW spelling pattern in English.


Making Friends šŸ«¶šŸ½ | My Relocation Diaries
#389
Last Friday at 1:00 PM

In this episode I talk about friendships. I will take you through what friendships looked like for me before I moved here, what has changed, and how Iā€™m making new connections here now.
Iā€™ll also talk about how we change over the years in the way we make friends and the way we find the right people for us.

This episode was recorded with enormous love to all my friends here and there. Iā€™m grateful for having you in my life.


How to (politely) disagree with someone: Useful phrases
#388
03/19/2024

Have you ever needed to disagree with someone in English, but werenā€™t sure how exactly to say it? In this episode, Iā€™ll share with you several different ways you can (politely) disagree with someone the next time you donā€™t see eye to eye with them


Spanish and Me ā¤ļøā€šŸ©¹ - my experience learning another language | My Relocation Diaries
#387
03/15/2024

Today, Iā€™m starting to share my humble experience learning Spanish living in Barcelona, and trying to understand others and get by. Itā€™s not as easy as I thought it would be! But Iā€™m working on finding my path.

Tune in to listen to my episode and hear what itā€™s like to be an absolute beginner in a new language.


Pronounce this suffix right every time (-ally)
#386
03/12/2024

Practice pronunciation with me! Suffixes in English often change the pronunciation and stress on a word, which can make guessing the right pronunciation a bit stressful. But in this episode, Iā€™ll show you how to pronounce words with the -ally suffix with ease.

What other words with the -ally suffix can you think of?

In this episode, the examples include how to pronounce the words:

Cultural and Culturally Digital and Digitally Natural and Naturally Accident and Accidentally Specific and Specifically


A day in my life ā€“ productivity, managing work & balancing family | My Relocation Diaries
#385
03/08/2024

If moving to a new country does anything, it definitely shakes up your daily routine. In this episode, Iā€™ll talk about how Iā€™m balancing productivity, creating a different work environment, developing different routines and balancing family time in Barcelona.


Business English Communication - How to Succeed in Conversations with Lindsay McMahon
#384
03/05/2024

Do you want to improve your communication skills in professional environments in English? Thatā€™s exactly what weā€™re talking about today with Lindsay from All Ears English. We talk about how business English has changed since the pandemic, and how you can succeed in conversations remotely or in-person.Ā 

Useful Business English phrases, recommended by Lindsay:

I apologize but I need to reschedule our meeting. Does [time] work for you? I hate to do this but I need to reschedule our meeting. Can you please send me your availability for next week? Iā€™m sorry, I have to...


The biggest risk Iā€™ve ever taken | My Relocation Diaries
#383
03/01/2024

Today Iā€™m sharing with you the CRAZIEST thing Iā€™ve ever done and how I moved my entire family to Spainā€¦before even knowing if I would receive the visa. Iā€™ll also share why the power of our thoughts can either limit us, or allow us to take risks we never could have imagined, but get us big results.


Will learning another language mess up your English? šŸ«£
#382
02/27/2024

Whether youā€™re a passionate polyglot, or you have to learn several languages out of necessity, you might have wondered if learning more than one language can harm your progress in English. In todayā€™s episode, Iā€™ll share my thoughts, and what steps you can take if you are learning more than one language at a time.

Did you like this episode? Check out the episode ā€œWill Learning Other Accents Mess Up My English?ā€ https://hadarshemesh.com/magazine/listening-to-different-accents/


Little pieces of confidence | My Relocation Diaries
#381
02/23/2024

Moving to a new country can be scary, and you need to build a new sense of confidence in this new place. I realized that the only way for me to overcome my fear of ā€˜not belongingā€™ or ā€˜doing something wrongā€™ is by building my confidence little by little by taking small actions. And thatā€™s what Iā€™m talking about today.

Video version is available here: https://youtu.be/sEDlJwSUF_4