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#englishriot #englishunmasked Sign up for my weekly English learning newsletter “The Sledgehammer” and get my free book about online English study tools: https://englishriot.com/the-sledgehammer/ Or buy my book English Words Unmasked https://englishriot.com/englishwords/ Welcome to the ninth episode of What the 'Beep' do you know about learning English? This podcast is for intermediate to advanced learners of English. Some teachers might find it interesting too. The podcast aims to provide different perspectives on learning English and at the same time develop our listeners' language skills. In this episode, we return our Smashing Sledgehammers format. Amy and Damien look at our teachers’ English language learning tips and review an online tool connected to that learning tip. If the tool is any good it could be just the thing for you to improve your English Today we revisit Vicki’s tips for learning English and review three collocation tools. The tools are: Netspeak JustTheWord IWeb Corpus After introducing the tools, we review them using the three criteria below: 1) Pedagogy: Is this tool based on good teaching methods and research or are they making claims they can’t support? 2) User Experience: How easy or hard is it to use this online tool? Is there a good help page? Are the controls complicated? And so on. 3) Language Learning Potential: How much can a student of English get out of this tool? Will this tool make you a more efficient learner of English? Got a difficult English question? Ask away and we'll give you our best answer! Meet me on social media: - Website www.englishriot.com - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/englishriot/ - Twitter https://twitter.com/englishriot - Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/englishriot/ - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/englishriot/ And start smashing language barriers today!