📖 Free English Listening Lessons

Hello, and welcome to Adept English a "New & Better" way of learning to speak English fluently. Here you will find lots of great "listen & learn" podcasts.

Our lessons use our "listen & learn" method of learning to speak English fluently. It's much more enjoyable if you learn English in the way that your brain naturally wants to learn. Every week we publish a FREE English lesson in the form of a video podcast, and for people who subscribe to our podcasts on Spotify or Apple Podcasts they get an additional 2 podcasts every week.

📮 grammar

A photo of a woman with a brightly coloured umbrella. This podcast will help you get to know modals better so you can use them confidently and correctly in your own speech and writing.

Parts Of Speech-English Modal Verbs Ep 535

Modal verbs are everywhere! They are a big part of speech in the English language. Frankly, in English we use them so much that after a while they become invisible to us native speakers. Which is why we need to make them visible again. That’s what this podcast is all about. Start learning English grammar the easy way, through listening.

Published

May 05, 2022

📮 fluency

A photo of a gas meter and coins piled up. Do you want to learn how to speak English well? Then we can offer the most effective strategies to develop your English language skills.

If You Want To Speak English Fluently And Confidently-You Need To Listen Ep 534

Today we talk about living costs, rising energy bills and the impact of this on people’s lives. Whether you’re preparing for IELTS exams or just want to learn some new English vocabulary, we fill our podcast with tips and advice that will help you enhance your English-speaking skills.

Published

May 02, 2022

📮 phrases

A photo of an old fashioned radio on a table. Spice up your English language learning. Learning with music delivers better results than just using plain text, and let’s be honest, who doesn’t like a bit of music while studying?

Memorising Common English Vocabulary And Phrases Using Music Ep 533

Today we are going to look at a memorising technique that uses music. We are going to see how you can apply this powerful learning approach to making learning English vocabulary and phrases easier. Music is a fantastic way to get new vocabulary into your brain. It’s an easy way to improve your English vocabulary and fluency. This is a method that I have found to be really effective and at the end of the podcast, I discuss the facts that support why it works.

Published

April 28, 2022

📮 pronunciation

British and American flags fly over a green field. In today's show, I'm going to outline a few small differences between American and British pronunciation that may surprise you.

British Accents vs American Accents As We Practise English Pronunciation Ep 532

Today we are going to look at the differences between British English and American English pronunciation. Do you really want to sound more like James Bond, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Daniel Craig than a mix of Bill Murray, President Obama, and Ben Stiller? If you want to sound more British when you speak, rather than American, then this podcast will share some secrets that will help you understand why we sound the way we do.

Published

April 25, 2022

📮 grammar

A visit to a green spring garden on an Easter weekend. Every day, we use countless verb tenses in English conversation. In today’s lesson, I’ll walk you through how native English speakers use tenses.

Learn English Verb Tenses Needed To Talk About Your Plans With Others Ep 531

Are you looking for the perfect resource to help you get confident in all those English verb tenses? In this lesson, you’ll find ALL the verb tenses typically used during an everyday English conversation. It’s crammed to capacity with examples of present simple and present perfect verbs, past simple forms, modal verbs and many more.

Published

April 21, 2022

📮 listening

A man meditating in a green forest. An English language Listen & Learn podcast about the links between your mind and body. Improve your English listening skills while you learn a little more about why your brain works the way it does.

English Conversations For English Learners-Why Having A Big Brain Is Not Always An Advantage Ep 530

A podcast to help you learn English naturally and improve your English listening skills. Today we learn why we poor humans suffer more from fight or flight and why having a clever brain isn’t always an advantage. So while you learn new English vocabulary, build your long term English language memory and work on your listening comprehension, you will also gain an interesting insight into how we humans work at a mind and body level.

Published

April 18, 2022

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