Haiku in English 2 🍂✍️ [982]
3/30/20261 hr 12 min
Haiku poems communicate a lot of ideas, thoughts and feelings into just a few simple words. They can be moving, humourous or meditative, and reading haiku in English allows you to learn vocabulary in a very interesting way. In part 1 I talked about the form and history of haiku, and read out various short poems in English from both Japanese writers and modern English ones. In part 2 here I finish reading my haiku selection, including many written by English-language haiku master John Stevenson. Listen to each one, consider the different meanings and interpretations and also learn specific words and phrases to expand your English vocabulary.
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First 90 secondsLuke Thompson· Host0:00
Thank you for choosing Luke's English Podcast. For more episodes with specific vocabulary and pronunciation teaching, plus ad-free listening, access to the premium community, and to show your support for the podcast, sign up to LEP Premium at teacherluke.co.uk/premium. [on-hold music] You're listening to Luke's English Podcast. For more information, visit teacherluke.co.uk. Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. This episode is called Haiku in English two, and it's the continuation of an episode I started in February this year, which that episode was called Haiku in English. Very imaginative stuff. Yeah. So I did part one of this in February, and I had to abandon the first part of this because if you remember, there was the noise of drilling and hammering from next door, which has been very annoying recently. They've been replacing all the windows in the rooms next to mine here on the top floor of this building, and it's been very annoying. I've had to cancel several episode recordings. Hopefully, they won't be doing it today, but that's what, uh, caused me to abandon part one of this. But now the sounds of silence have returned, offering me space to come back to this Zen-like