📖 English Lessons Section

Each Podcast is its own English lesson

Hi there you are listening to Adept English and this is a listen and learn podcast. My name is Hilary and I created this listen and learn method to help you speak English fluently. It's much more enjoyable if you learn English in the way that your brain naturally wants to learn. I live in the United Kingdom. I'm a native English speaker. And I love helping the hundreds of thousands of students who listen to us every month.

Every week we give you two English lessons in the form of podcasts. So listen to Adept English. You'll be on your way to speaking fluent English in no time.

📮 fluency

A photograph of a hairdresser washes customer hair in basin. An English conversation about SLS in shampoo.

Lets Talk About Shampoo As We Help You To Learn English Conversation Ep 364

If you’ve listened to Adept English before, you know that we try to make our English lessons interesting. And today, as we help you learn English conversation skills, we talk about hair. Yes, the hair we all have on our heads and if you care about how your hair looks, it’s going to be useful information that could change the way you wash your hair forever.

Published

September 14, 2020

💬 Words: 2437

Length 13 min

📮 listening

Portrait of young businesspeople with face masks working indoors in office, a conversation about risk in this English language listening lesson.

Learn How To Speak English In Your Own Time Ep 363

There are lots of places that will help you learn to speak English, some are good and some are bad. However, there are very few good ones that help you learn HOW to speak English for FREE, using a modern approach to language learning. So you can do this in your own time at your pace.

Published

September 10, 2020

💬 Words: 1927

Length 10 min

📮 fluency

Prague at the sunrise, a beautiful city sets the backdrop to our discussion on facts about languages as we learn to speak English fluently.

Discover Interesting Language Facts As You Learn English Language Fluency Ep 362

In today’s English lesson our goal is to learn and improve English Language Fluency through listening to a topical conversation spoken by a native English speaker. As usual, we try to make the lesson interesting as we expect you to listen to the lesson several times, you can learn more about why we ask you to do this here.

Published

September 07, 2020

💬 Words: 2105

Length 11 min

📮 phrases

A photograph of a tea set on white wooden table, used to help describe the use of less as a suffix.

Using A Suffix With Common English Words Ep 361

Today we talk about using a suffix or prefix. We discuss how to spot them in use, how to use them and what they mean. To help explain things, we take a common suffix and explain how to apply it with lots of examples. As usual with the English language, there are some special grammar rules, so we also explain these special cases.

Published

September 03, 2020

💬 Words: 1888

Length 10 min

📮 listening

View of the picturesque St Lukes Mews alley near Portobello Road in Notting Hill, London. Example British houses in London.

The Rooms In Your House - A Conversation With English Listening Practice Ep 360

Today’s English listening practice lesson is all about a typical English home. The lesson is an everyday conversation with English vocabulary and English listening practice in a discussion about the rooms and layout of a British home. With listeners from all around the world, living in many types of home, I suspect that there will be some new English vocabulary to learn.

Published

August 31, 2020

💬 Words: 2564

Length 13 min

📮 listening

A photograph of the Chernobyl nuclear power station, discussed in this English language listening practice lesson.

Thoughts About Chernobyl Miniseries While We Do Some English Listening Practice Ep 359

In today’s English listening practice, we talk about a popular TV mini-series called Chernobyl. It’s a story about true bravery in the face of impossible odds. Although the BBC didn't made the series, it’s really good, so if you like what you hear in today’s English lesson it might be worth checking out.

Published

August 27, 2020

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