Michael and I will be recording our first new episode of Bomb English tonight, and we hope to have new episodes up on the site very soon. Many, many thanks to our patient listeners and especially to our new Bomb English members: Ancient Goose and James!
Also, for those of you who just can’t wait, both Micheal and I have been featured on Seoul’s new English language radio broadcast: tbs eFM103 is featuring daily English language programming, and both Mike and I have been guests on Sara Kim’s Seoul of Asia program (daily at 11 am). Mike will be on every Monday at 11 now, lending his special slant to the ombudsman oratory.

An amazing way to present the American presidential debates is through the New York Times’ video presentation of the debates, where they present a full transcript of the debate WHILE it happens. I won’t explain it here — just go watch it. It’s amazing. You can READ the transcript WHILE the video streams.

1st Presidential Debate between Barack Obama and John McCain

1st Vice-Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin

Mike and Jennifer were interviewed on Arirang TV, for a segment on expat bloggers! You can see the interview here:

Ok, this is just for fun, but one of my favorite “songs” of all time is Bulbous Bouffant by The Vestibules. Have you ever said a word over and over again until it ceased to have meaning and became just sound? Probably you haven’t, but I’m weird and I have. That’s the basic idea behind this skit . . .

For more fun, you can find more songs and skits at www.thevestibules.com

I’ll admit an ulterior motive for my previous post about radio dramas.
Of course, listening to radio dramas and programming are wonderful ways to improve your English listening skills. But what if you could improve more than your listening? What if you had an opportunity to practice your writing and speaking skills at the same time? What if you could have something really nifty to show off how much your skills were improving?

What if you made your own radio drama?

Here at Bomb English we want not only to produce wonderful podcasts, but also participate in the process of learning. We hope a small group of listeners might be interested in helping to write, produce, perform, and record a radio-style drama. If you would be interested, please let us know by sending us an email or commenting here on this post. As soon as we have enough people, there will be an announcement giving the time and place of the first meeting!

 

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이 17번째 폭탄영어 에피소드에서는 제니퍼와 마이클이 욕에 대해 대화하는데 너무 솔직하게 말하니까 귀가 아플지도 몰라요. 그리고 이번주는 영어의 욕의 사범님이 돌아가셨는데 — George Carlin — 이 에피소드 꼭 해야 한다고 생각했죠. 이 건 진짜 ‘리얼 잉그리쉬’이죠? 그치 존나 좋지? ㅋㅋㅋ [대본을 다운 받으세요.]

In this 17th episode, Jennifer and Michael talk about Cursing! This week, one of the English language’s master cursers died, so we also decided to do this episode, which we’ve been wanting to do for a long time. You wanted real English? You got, it! Fuckin’ ay, right? [Download the transcript.]

Recorded in mono at 64 kbps, 44.100 KHZ for high voice fidelity and maximum clarity. Show length: 42:37

Show Links:

Mark Wahlberg in ‘The Departed’:

“Stereo negotiations” from ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’:

“Ho’ fo’ sho’” from “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”:

Bernie Mac explains the many uses of “fuck”:

George Carlin’s “Seven Words”

George Carlin, one of America’s greatest comedians and comedic social critics, passed away on Monday. America will miss him.

Here’s several good stories (and radio reports) on George from NPR. RIP!

The next episode (coming tomorrow) will talk about…curses! 욕! Whoo hoo!

Wow. Double wow. A cure for cancer within a few years? And from a retiree without a college education or medical background? You gotta watch this story. Truly inspiring, truly. You can also read the story while listening to the video. Also, you can double-click on any word, and the definition will pop up. Thanks, CBS News. This is great for English study!

That’s simply unbelievable. And I mean that in the sense of being incredulously hopeful, not cynically dismissive. Thank you, Mr. Kanzius. You just might be the man who saves billions of lives. And all from banging around pots in your kitchen.

Michael의 편지가 OhMyNews에서 나온 건데 물론 꼭 영어에 대한 주제가 아닌데 우리 폭탄영어란 사이트를 운영하는 Michael의 친구이니까 한마디하고 싶었죠. 그래서 오마이뉴스에서 나온 거고요:

여기는 Part 1 / Part 2

Michael taped 3 interviews with her for the SeoulGlow show, of which this is the third. At this point, she has become one of the final two candidates, but the final decision had not been made…

이소연씨와 한 세번의 인터뷰 중 세번째 에피소드 입니다. 현재 최종 두 호보에는 들었지만, 아직 최종 결정은 나오지 않았습니다.

I wrote an article about Lee Soyeon’s having become the 1st astronaut, after Ko San was removed by the Russians. Soyeon deserves her place, and is an amazing candidate, but unfortunately, few people have had the chance to get to know her. Now, you can.

Here’s the link to the Ohmynews.com article I wrote about her, based on the ONLY interviews done BEFORE she was chosen. I think the interviews show just how qualified she is, as well as just how great of a representative she can be for the Korean people.

Made for a video podcast I started in 2006 called SeoulGlow, the videos are always subtitled so that any Korean or English speaker can watch them. Like Bomb English, it is good study material that is interesting content as well.

Enjoy!