From the campus studios
of Saarland university,
this is RoPeCast,
the light-hearted podcast
for learners of English,
with Roger Charlton
and Peter Tischer.
Hello everyone!
My name is Peter,
and you are listening to RoPeCast,
the podcast on interesting, funny, strange
and surprising aspects of the English language.
Well, and this means we have quite
a lot of topics in store for you.
And when I say we
that is not myself alone
That is a friend of mine and a colleague of mine
Roger Charlton. Hi Roger!
Hi Peter!
Well, and, Roger, actually,
you're the one who's got the topic list
sitting on his lap,
so you might as well tell our listeners,
what we have in store for them,
in the next few weeks.
Right! Yeah, for example, does it matter
if I make a grammatical mistake
when I'm using English or is it ...
... ehem, I ... I sure hope it doesn't!
No. Maybe it's more important
to get the words right,
the vocabulary right.
Which is a problem for me, too,
from time to time,
since I'm not a native speaker of English.
So, guys out there, and girls,
bear with me,
I'm in the same boat with you!
And then, perhaps, we'll take a look at
sport and sports, for example,
how do you understand the word football?
OK, well, I understand it as being a game
that is really rough, for tough guys
- like me -
I mean, unfortunately
you cannot see me in the studio,
but I have really broad shoulders.
And for me it would be soccer.
Aha, ok, ok. You are more the elegant
... person.
- Thank you!
And then, some practical hints about ...
Well, is it a good idea
to go to an English speaking country
to get more practice?
If so - which country?
How do I organise myself?
How do I pay for it?
Are there scholarships?
Yeah, where do I get the money? - Exactly!
Scholarships, training abroad ...
One thing that is interesting for me,
once I am there,
how do you make the most of it?
I mean, you're there
in the English speaking world,
and you're saying:
How do I improve my English here?
Yeah! - I mean, they know it,
but how do I get better?
That's right,
so there'll ne plenty of tips!
Ahah.
Plenty of topics and plenty of things
that we will try to explain to you
that may be confusing to
non-native speakers of English,
especially to Germans.
And, since we're talking about confusing things,
a few ... one thing that may be confusing to everybody
who's listening to us right now,
is actually the title of our podcast- Yes.
- which is "RoPeCast".
And, well, there's more than one reason for this title.
The first and most straight forward reason
is actually our names.
Yeah, my name is Roger, which gives us "Ro".
And my name is Peter,which gives you "Pe".
And, of course we are doing a podCAST,
and together this gives us "Ro-Pe-Cast" - RoPeCast.
- Yes! - But that's not the only reason, actually:
No, we're also thinking, a rope is kind of
a ... something you could grab hold of,
something to give you security if you're sinking,
drowning - Drowning in that sea of words
- Yes! - that is the English language.
Right! - Right!
So, folks, we're actually trying to throw you guys,
and you girls of course,
a lifeline to survive
when you're speaking English.
I hope you can understand us,
'cause this is a podcast for advanced learners.
But we're trying to speak slowly here,
and we're trying to get you a little bit further
in your English learning process.
And next time,
we will have something really interesting for you,
which are words that are called 'false friends',
and we're gonna tell you, for example,
why it may come in handy
to have a Beemer with you
if you're travelling across the USA.
- That's right!- Not surprising to you, Roger,
but maybe to a few of you. - I think so!
So, stay tuned or tune in again,
download that podcast,
keep it on your iTunes
when we're gonna talk about Beemers and stuff, next time.
So, here's us, Roger and Peter,
signing off for this week.
Bye-bye for now. - Bye!
You've been listening to RoPeCast,
brought to you by Saarland University,
featuring Roger Charltonand Peter Tischer,
Tune in for the next edifying episode,
on your podcast dial!
You know what, Roger?
There's still a lot of things I don't get.
- And you never will!