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Introducing Moheb Soliman to you!
Aug 16th
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Moheb is joining the Culips team and helping us create an online writing course (We will let you know as soon as we start taking students!), so we wanted to introduce him to you. We talk a bit about his interesting experiences in Egypt, the U.S. and Canada. Can anyone hear a difference between the Canadian and American accents?
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Maura: Yeah, for sure. So how old were you when you came to the U.S.?
Moheb: I was just 6 years old.
Maura: Ok, so do you remember it at all?
Moheb: You know, being 6 years old, I knew how to speak Arabic…
Podcast/ Lipservice: Culips ESL Podcast, Photo: Culips
I was on the radio last week!
Jun 1st
Hello everyone!
A good friend of mine who is originally from Montreal now lives in Vancouver. Her name is Marie-Eve and she has a radio show on CITR, which is a community radio station with all kinds of cultural shows and podcasts. You can look at the schdule for their shows here.
On May 21, 2009 I was interviewed by Marie-Eve for her radio show French Connection. Her show is all about Quebec culture in Canada. She interviewed me about being anglophone (English speaker) living in Quebec. We talked about all the cultural differences between English and French culture. It was really fun. Click here to check out my interview.
Some of the interview was also done in French (I was nervous speaking French) so if you are a French speaker this is extra nice for you!
Interview: Rita the Montrealer
Jan 25th
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There are so many different people in Montreal from all over the world. Not one of us in the Culips team is actually from Montreal (we’re from other parts of Canada). But we have a friend Rita who is actually from this city! In this episode, Maura chats with Rita about growing up in Montreal, and her experiences with all the cultures and languages here! Thanks Rita!
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Rita: It was great. I grew up in an Anglophone community so a lot of my friends were English. I’m first-generation Italian-Canadian. My parents came to Canada, to Montreal, in 1968 with my two brothers and my mom was pregnant with my sister.
Maura: Ok
Rita: But we had a lot of family here with us as well, so it made that transition a lot easier. I grew up in a great neighborhood, it was very multicultural. I had Greek friends, I had Jewish friends, I had Italian friends. So it was just a lot of friends.
Maura: That is something else that I think is really special about Montreal, there are so many different cultures and often they live all together. So they are not just living separately, there’s all kinds of cultures interacting together.
Rita: Absolutely, absolutely. You can see anyone from anywhere anytime.
Podcast/ Lipservice: Culips ESL Podcast, Photo: Rita d’Amico
Interview: Jessie is on the Spot
Nov 29th
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Introducing Jessie! Jessie is joining the Culips team and will be helping us host future episodes. We cover the basics, how long she has been in Montreal and what she is doing here. Jessie also worked as an English teacher in South Korea, like Harp. In this episode, they both talk about their experiences teaching and living the Korean life.
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Harp: So tell me a little bit about yourself. You are not from Montreal?
Jessie: No, I am originally from North Bay, Ontario which is about 4 hours north of Toronto.
Harp:4 hours north, wow!
Jessie: It is quite a ways
Harp: Is it cold up there?
Jessie: It is in the winter, not too cold in the summer.
Harp: Thank God. Imagine?
Jessie: You know we don’t really live in igloos or ride dogsleds or anything.
Podcast/ Lipservice: Culips ESL Podcast, Photo: Jessie Cox
Interview: Marcus is on the spot
Nov 8th
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We want to introduce you to more of our friends in Montreal! In this episode, Harp chats with Marcus about his travels, learning languages and coming to Montreal. He speaks 4 languages and has a tour company for international students. Check him out here!
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Harp: Yeah, now I also heard from Maura that you are doing a tour company? Are you starting your own company? And you have a lot of Japanese clients I believe.
Marcus: Yeah, that is right.
Harp: Ok so can you tell me a little bit about that?
Marcus: Every weekend, every Saturday I take tourists from Montreal to a new destination
Harp: Cool, where do you go?
Marcus: So we go to Quebec City, Ottawa, sometimes Niagara Falls, sometimes Mont Tremblant where we can see beautiful fall colours.
Podcast/ Lipservice: Culips ESL Podcast, Photo: Marcus Bender
Culture: Living Off Campus
Aug 24th
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This is our new podcast – Chatterbox! Here we talk about everything cultural. This is Part 2 about University Life.
In this episode Harp talks about living off campus, what she liked and what she didn’t like. Harp liked her mom’s homecooking but she didn’t take naps like Maura did. To find out more about living off campus during University, listen to this episode.
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Harp:Yup, I stayed at home with my folks.
Maura: So did you want to do that?
Harp: I always wanted to go to dorms and rez but I had the advantages of my mom cooking me dinner and my mom helping clean the house and I didn’t have all those extra responsibilities, I could focus on school, but I always dreamed of living in dorms.
Maura: Yeah but as I said before the food wasn’t so great.
Harp: Yeah that is true I didn’t gain the freshman 15.
Maura: Yeah, I’m sure your dinners tasted a lot better than mine did.
Harp:Exactly, my mom is such a good cook. I miss my mom. She is such a good cook.
Maura: Yeah, was there anything else that you liked or didn’t like about living at home?
Podcast/ Lipservice: Culips ESL Podcast, Photo: Jasohill
Of all the podcasts with 'real world' English examples, I like yours the best. Maybe its the fun you put into the lessons. The students can here that in your voices. And they also feel your dedication to what you are doing - it's just not a job you do, but a gift you give to everyone who listens. And while the students like the Lipservice PDFs for all the information it contains, as a teacher I am impressed by the professional effort put into making them. I give the Culips podcast and the Culips crew my highest recommendation, both as a teacher, and a listener. 
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